Bush & Hitler... Together Again.
Hitler stated in February 1940, "But there is something else I believe, and that is that there is a God. . . . And this God again has blessed our efforts during the past 13 years." After the Iraqi invasion, Bush announced, "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did . . . ."
Neither the similarity between Hitler and Bush's religious rhetoric nor the fact that the current President's grandfather was called "Hitler's Angel" by the New York Tribune for his financing of the Fuher's rise to power is lost on Europeans.
When was the last time a Western nation had a leader so obsessed with God and claiming God was on our side?
If you answered Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany, you're correct. Nothing can be more misleading than to categorize Hitler as a barbaric pagan or Godless totalitarian, like Stalin.
Both Bush and Hitler believe that they were chosen by God to lead their nations. With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of preventive war against all of Europe, that "I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany."
Pat Robertson called Bush "a prophet" and Ralph Reed claimed, after the 9/11 attack, God picked the President because "he knew George Bush had the ability to lead in this compelling way." Hitler told the German people in March 1936, "Providence withdrew its protection and our people fell, fell as scarcely any other people heretofore. In this deep misery we again learn to pray. . . . The mercy of the Lord slowly returns to us again. And in this hour we sink to our knees and beseech our almighty God that he may bless us, that He may give us the strength to carry on the struggle for the freedom, the future, the honor, and the peace of our people. So help us God."
At the beginning of Hitler's crusade on April 12, 1922, he spelled out his version of the warmongering Jesus: "My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter." Randall Balmer in The Nation, noted that "Bush's God is the eye-for-an-eye God of the Hebrew prophets and the Book of Revelation, the God of vengeance and retribution."
Like Bush-ites, Hitler was fond of invoking the Ten Commandments as the foundation of Nazi Germany: "The Ten Commandments are a code of living to which there's no refutation. These precepts correspond to irrefragable needs of the human soul."
But if you ever wondered where Bush got his idea for so-called "faith-based initiatives" you need only consult Hitler's January 30, 1939 speech to the Reichstag. The Fuhrer begins, "Amongst the accusations which are directed against Germany in the so-called democracy is the charge that the National Socialist State is hostile to religion."
Hitler made the intent of his faith-based initiative clear when he noted, "With a tenth of our budget for religion, we would thus have a Church devoted to the State and of unshakable loyalty. . . . the little sects, which receive only a few hundred thousand marks, are devoted to us body and soul."
Interesting analogy, but I have my reservations about comparing Bush to Hitler, as I have reservations about laying the blame at the footsteps of "a firm and deep belief in God."
For one thing, I've heard enough contradicting stories about Hitler, his views, his goals, and his deeds to need further evidence before I condemn him as evil incarnate.
Also, I too deeply believe in God and always seek His guidance. Should I then condemn myself for allowing myself to be guided by Him? Obviously not. Even if I should, I would be the last to admit it.
The real question must be - from an objective standpoint -
(There's only One God - but, for arguments sake, we must assume that my God is much different from George Bush's, because our principles, as reflected by our conduct, are diametrically opposed to eachother.)
WHAT does your God demand of you in order to seek His pleasure?
My point is - it's all about RULES.
You can only determine whether someone is "good" or "evil" by closely examining the rules that he lives by.
Do not condemn them or think that they are your enemy simply because they believe in a God who they call by a different name than you call your own.
Do not condemn them or think that they are your enemy simply because they ask their God for guidance.
First, ask what does their God demand of them vis-a-vis how they treat you?
Are you on an equal footing before "their God"?
Or, do they enjoy a higher status than you?
As long as you are on an equal footing, it doesn't matter how different your cultures are - you can live in peace with eachother.
If not, you are eternally at war.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
How can one ever know which god Bush and Hitler were praying to?
The one of peace and love or the one of eternal sorrow and grief?
Looking at their track record, one is inclined to believe that it is the latter god.
all the rest (false gods) - and there are many - are of eternal sorrow and grief.
I still don't think that Bush can be compared to Hitler. From what I know (and I could be wrong, but I doubt it) - Bush is far worse.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
"I still don't think that Bush can be compared to Hitler. From what I know (and I could be wrong, but I doubt it) - Bush is far worse."
Agreed. The above comparisons were to point out how both use and abuse their version of god to enact their manifestos, using the pretense of a belief in a god to commit crimes on a planet-wide scale.
And like an Indian snake charmer, they can lull their target audiences, invoking their god, to confuse the masses as to their true intentions.
From a European perspective I guess Hitler is Satan. However to the rest of humanity he was much softer to Europe (to most only a few years) than what racist colonial Europe had done to the rest of the world for hundreds of years.
Hitler is Hitler and Bush is Bush. I hope one of his own (non-Muslim, non-Arab) officers tries to suitcase bomb him though, although they should succeed this time.
Hitler realized the threat of the jew Bolsheviks and took action against them. Sadly, Israel won WW2.
Bush openly enables the present-day Bolsheviks, and sadly, they are still winning today.
Hitler enacted pro-family measures, encouraged women to marry, have children and be stay-at-home moms (Bolshevists will loudly decry the evil of such an idea). Bush allows the continued destruction of the family by the Bolsheviks.
There is little real comparison between the two men. Bush is a mindless puppet that is presiding over the dismantling of our way of life. Hitler transformed a broken country into a national superpower. Bush just wants his personal cut from the profits of destruction. Hitler worked for the betterment of the German people.