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German booksellers did roaring business last week when there appeared on the market an antiSemitic, Nazified version of The Gospel According to St. John, adapted from Martin Luther's standard German translation of the Bible. This was big news for Nordic churchgoers, because the man responsible for the metamorphosis of St. John into an up-to-date Nazi was none other than Dr. Heinz Weidemann, Bishop of Bremen, who is no black sheep of the German Evangelical Church but one of its prime spiritual forces...
Much less stir was created few months ago by the Nazified version of Christ's Sermon on the Mount because its author, Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller, is in bad odor with the State Church. Humility and forgiveness find no place in Bishop Muller's Sermon on the Mount. Heavily stressed are '"blood" and "comradeship." Example. Matthew...
King James Version...
Hitler's Version...
...since the period of Jane Austen's sentimental novel, "Pride and Prejudice." For the demure and innocent young lass of the 18th century, to be kissed was to be as good as married. Young men of today are bolder, and young ladies far less scrupulous. To enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent...