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...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...
Throughout the entire nation similar letters with Christmas Seals will be passing through all Post Offices on their way to homes, businesses and colleges of all sizes and kinds. It is a State and Nationwide drive with every nationality, every creed and every color contributing to its cause...
Ninety-five per cent of the newspapers commenting editorially on That Man's reelection said that regardless of race, creed, or how much dough we lost on the election, Americans must "close ranks," as they boldly phrased it. This is no time they said, for squabbling. Republicans and Democrats alike, we must bury the hatchet--preferably not in each others' necks...
...recognizes as a conscientious objector "any person . . . who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." It is not necessary for the objector, as you suppose, to be a member of any well recognized religious sect like the Quakers, whose creed or principles forbid participation in war. It is enough under the law if the man himself is opposed to war on religious grounds. He must of course convince the proper authorities of the sincerity of his belief in order to be assigned to nonmilitary service. The present law is wider...
...Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require or compel any person to serve in a combatant capacity in any of the public armed forces of the United States, who is found to be a member of any well-recognized religious sect whose creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form, if the conscientious holding of such belief by such person shall be established under such regulations as the President may prescribe; but no person shall be relieved from service in such capacity as the President may declare to be noncombatant...