Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera house was as tumultuous and unceasing as the Queen's acceptance of it was gracious. She expressed her gratitude the next morning by inviting the prima donna to her room in the Palatin Hotel and presenting her with a brooch bejeweled bearing the remarkable likeness of "Old Testament-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie, and by asking the whole company to present their operas in Abyssinia, plans for which are now complete...
...Elimination of the Old Testament and of "palpably misrepresenting or superstitious passages in the New Testament...
...German Christian spirit." The non-Nazis then called for the expulsion of Bishop Hossenfelder for listening with equanimity to the Sport-palast resolution of heresy. The Sport-palasters retorted that their meeting "was to express what the spiritual leaders of the Church in Germany really think about the Old Testament and to give the highest bishop an understanding of the opinion of the people...
...within and without, from Teutonic prelates and Brownshirt authority. Dr. Reinhold Krause in a meeting at the Berlin Sport Palace boomed out his now famous four points: one, that all Jews be excluded from the Church; two, that ghetto parishes be instituted for the ostracized; three, that the Old Testament be thrown out because of its obviously Hebraic origin and additionally because it is "a collection of tales by cattle dealers and pimps"; fourth, that all traces of the doctrine of humility should be deleted from the New Testament. This program as it was bellowed to the enthusiastic audience...
...Professors Carlyle, in their "Medieval Political Theory in the West," I, 157, trace the doctrine to three causes, the correction of anarchy in the primitive church, the relation of the Church to emperors after Constantine, and the influence of the Old Testament ideas on the sanctity of the ruler. On p. 159, they continue "We may at least reasonably say that the tradition of Israel provided the centre around which such opinion took definite shape and form." Indeed, it is impossible to read the Old Testament and feel that Hitler's autocracy, of single party ballots compounded, would have flourished...