Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such comity would have pleased the great Hebrew teacher Hillel (70 B.C.-10 A.D.), many of whose sayings resemble Christ's. According to legend a Gentile once challenged him: "If you can teach me the Torah while I stand on one foot I will be converted." As the man hopped, Hillel answered: "What is hateful to thee, do not do unto thy fellow man-all the rest is commentary...
...vigorous was Confessional and Lutheran Council opposition to Reichsbishop Muller that Hitler soon shelved him, presently gave his powers to Minister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl. Minister Kerrl's creed: "The primacy of the State over the Church must be recognized. . . . The question of the divinity of Christ is ridiculous and unessential. A new authority, Adolf Hitler, has arisen as to what Christ and Christianity really are." To Minister Kerrl, Adolf Hitler is "the Jesus Christ as well as the Holy Ghost of the Fatherland...
...Advent sermons that packed St. Michael's Church he condemned the false choice that the Nazis had tried to place before Catholics-the choice between "Germanism" and disloyalty. His Eminence thundered: "Let us not forget that we were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!'' Cardinal von Faulhaber narrowly missed a Nazi bullet in 1934. In 1938 a Nazi mob smashed the windows of his palace. Now 71, he is in ill health, but he still leads Germany's Catholics in their resistance to Hitler...
...Hitler Protestant bishops who has held on to his post, typifies an attitude of something-less-than-martyrdom. Under him, middle-of-the-road Protestantism's steady declaration has been: "Our bishop and council remain the legal authority of our church. . . . The Lord of the Christian Church is Christ, not Hitler...
...Church is a sign that it follows a perverted way. To that we reply confidently that the Apostles have borne witness to the contrary. ... In their strength let us go forward on the way-in His footsteps-unconcerned with the censure of men, but with the peace of Christ in our hearts and with praise of God on our lips. So help...