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Tyranny
and Christianisty:
The religion of George Bush and Adoph Hitler
by Christian Dewar
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon
devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal
treatment from a ruler whom they
consider God fearing and pious."
--
Aristotle.
"When fascism comes to America, it will come
wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
--
Sinclair Lewis
George W. Bush
"May He guide us now. And may God continue to
bless the United States of America."
-- George W. Bush, State of
the Union Address, January 28, 2003
"Faith crossed every border and touched every
heart in every nation."
-- George W. Bush
"I believe that God has planted in every heart
the desire to live in freedom."
-- George W. Bush
"We need common sense judges who understand our
rights were derived from God."
-- George W. Bush
" The God I know is one that promotes peace and
freedom. But I get great sustenance
from my personal relationship. That doesn't make
me think I'm a better person than you are,
by the way. Because one of the great admonitions
in the Good book, is, don't try to take a
speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my
own."
-- Bush June 24, 2004
When you turn your heart and your life over to
Christ,
when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes
your heart."
-- George W. Bush
My faith plays a big part in my life. And when
I was answering that question what I was really
saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And
I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal.
I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray
for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family.
I pray for my little girls."
-- George W. Bush
"I trust God speaks through me; without that I
couldn't do my job."
-- George W. Bush, July 9, 2004.
"I believe God wants me to be president."
-- George W. Bush as quoted by Richard
Land of the Southern Baptist Convention.
"I feel like God wants me to run for President.
I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going
to need me. Something is going to happen I know
it won't be easy on me or my family, but
God wants me to do it."
-- George W. Bush to James Robinson.
"I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to
run for president."
-- George W. Bush September 2000
"Privately, Bush talked of being chosen by the
grace of God to lead at that moment."
-- Time Magazine.
Michael Duffy wrote in Time Magazine that George
W. Bush, after the tragedy of the attacks on
the World Trade Center, spoke of "being chosen
by God to lead at that moment."
"Mr. President, when I say you on television,
I thought - God wanted you there."
-- Mike Gerson
"I think President Bush is God's man at this hour."
-- Tim Goeglein, former deputy director
of the White house public liaison.
"Why is this man in the White House and I tell
you this morning that he's in the White House
because God put him there for a time such as
this."
-- Lt. General William Boykin.
"Well, let's put it this way money trumps peace
sometimes."
-- George W. Bush at a press conference
on February 14, 2007.
"We seek peace. We strive for peace. And
sometimes peace must be defended."
-- George W. Bush in the State of
the Union address, January 2003
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about
war, we're really talking about peace."
-- George W. Bush
"He is the wrong father to appeal to in terms
of strength: there is a higher father that I appeal to."
-- George W, when Woodward asked
whether he had discussed Iraq with his father."
"I would hope we wouldn't have to do it militarily,
but we have a duty
Going into this period, I was praying for strength
to do the Lord's will "
-- George W. Bush in an interview
with Bob Woodward.
"I pray that I will be as good a messenger of
His will as possible
I felt so strongly that [invading Iraq] was the
right thing to do."
-- George W. Bush
Adolph Hitler
"I am now as before a Catholic and will always
remain so."
-- Hitler 1941
"I go the way that Providence dictates with the
assurance of a sleepwalker."
-- Hitler, Speech on March 15, 1936,
Munich
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance
with the will of the Almighty Creator."
-- Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter
2.
"I believe in Providence and I believe Providence
to be just. Therefore I believe that
Providence always rewards the strong,
the industrious and the upright."
-- Hitler, September 11, 1936
"May divine providence bless us with enough courage
and enough determination to
perceive within ourselves this holy German
space."
-- Hitler, Speech, March 24 1933
"I believe that Providence would never have allowed
us to see the victory of the
movement if it had the intention after
all to destroy us at the end."
-- Hitler, November 8, 1933
"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty
for choosing me of all people
to be allowed to wage this battle for
Germany."
-- Hitler
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered
by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down
on my knees and thank Heaven from an overflowing
heart for granting me the good fortune
of being permitted to live at this time."
-- Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol 1, Chapter
5
"He was sent to us by God to save Germany."
-- Herman Goering regarding Adolph
Hitler.
"A state that once again rules in God's name can
count not only on our applause
but also on enthusiastic and active cooperation
from the church. With joy and thanks
we see how this new state rejects blasphemy,
attacks immorality, promotes discipline
and order with a firm hand, demands awe before
God, works to keep marriage sacred
and our youth spiritually instructed, brings
honor back to fathers of families, ensures that
love of people and fatherland is no longer mocked,
but burns in a thousand hearts we can
only plead with our fellow worshipers to do all
they can do to help with these new
productive forces in our land reach a complete
and unimpeded victory."
-- Easter Sunday Blessing for the
Nazi state from Protestant pastors in Barvaria. April 16, 1933
The word "German is God's word! Whosoever understands
this is released from all
theological conflicts. This is German: return
home to Germany and leave behind egoism
and your feelings of abandonment Christ has come
to us through the person of Adolph
Hitler Hitler has taken root in us; through his
strength, through his honesty, his faith and
his idealism we have found our way to paradise."
-- Kirchenrt Leutheusser addressing German
Christians in Saalfeld, August 30, 1933.
"Never is these long years have we offered any
other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our
people peace at home and grant and preserve to
them peace from the foreign foe!"
-- Hitler, Nuremberg, September 1936
"It may be that today gold has become the exclusive
ruler of life, but the time will come
when man will again bow down before a
higher God."
-- Hitler Mein Kampf, Vol. 2 Chapter
2.
"The National Socialist Movement has wrought this
miracle.
If Almighty God granted success to this
work, then the Party was His instrument."
-- Hitler
"I had so often sung 'Deutschland Uber Alles'
and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs,
that is seemed to me almost a belated act of
grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in
the divine court of the Eternal Judge and proclaim
the sincerity of this conviction."
-- Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter
5
"Once again the songs of the fatherland roared
to the heavens along the endless
marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's
grace smiled on his ungrateful children."
-- Hitler re: WW1. Mein Kampf, Vol. 1
Chapter 7
"Thus, inwardly armed with confidence in God and
the unshakeable stupidity of the voting citizenry,
the politician can begin the fight for the remaking
of the Reich as they call it."
-- Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 2 Chapter 1
"In the life of nations, what in the last resort
decided questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God
Always before God and in the world the stronger
has the right to carry through what he wills.
-- Hitler, speech in Munich, April 13,
1923
"God does not make cowardly nations free."
-- Hitler, Mein Kampf.
"Our prayer is: Lord God, let us never hesitate.
Let us never play the coward, let us never
forget the duty which we have take upon us."
-- Hitler, March 1933
It matters not whether these weapons of our are
humane; if they gain us our freedom,
they are justified before our conscience and
before our God."
-- Hitler, Munich August 1, 1923
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with
the will of the Almighty Creator:
by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting
for the work of the Lord."
-- Hitler
"I believe today that I am acting in the
sense of the Almighty Creator.
By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the
Lord's work."
-- Hitler, Speech at the Reichstag,
1936
"[Adolph Hitler is] the tool of God, called upon
to overcome Judaism "
-- Father Senn, A Catholic priest,
May 15, 1934
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath: I will
render unconditional obedience
to the Fuhrer of the German Reich and people,
Adolph Hitler, Supreme Commander
of the Wehrmacht and, as a brave soldier, I will
be ready at any time to stake my life for this oath."
-- Loyalty Oath required of Wermacht
soldiers.
"God mit uns." (God is with us. The words on the belt buckles worn by Wermacht soldiers.)
As a result of the conflagration of WW11 started
by Adolph Hitler by his preemptive war
of aggression on a sovereign nation, the supreme
war crime under the precedents established
by the Nuremberg Tribunals, an estimated 50 million
people perished.
As a result of George W. Bush's pre-emptive war
of aggression on a sovereign nation,
an estimate 1.3 million Iraqis have died according
to the highly regarded Oxford Research
Bureau and the British Medical Journal, The Lancet.
As Joseph Stalin is said to have commented to
Winston Churchill,
"The death of one man is a tragedy. A million
deaths is just a statistic."
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