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U. S. Pastor Publishes Book Comparing the Country to Nazi Germany
Author Lutzer finds parallels with Nazi Germany in all the wrong places. One example is the fact that the state can license a marraige without the certification of the church. Hitler's Germany is compared to modern Hate Crimes legislation in which the minister believes these new laws will allow the state to control free speech in the pulpit. An economic example is found in the graduated income tax. Erwin sees this as stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Lutzer finds similar ideology in the British health care system with German concentration camps. Lutzer claims that in Britain senior adults are denied adequate health care. This is compared to the proposed new system in America. One assistant state attorney warned the pastor that in the near future pastors can lose the tax exempt status in the church if the church refused to preform gay marriages. Believe it or not, the famous preacher claims Muslims and homosexuals have joined together on hate crimes bills to further attack Christians. The Chicago preacher sees a horizon that doesn't look with favor on ministers in the nation. He claims, "Thus despite the First Amendment, a powerful secular government will still seek to control what citizens hear or should not hear." The author finds one source of great evil resides in the nation's ACLU. The organization is often mentioned as a diabolical system bent on destroying the Christian faith. The fact that the ACLU seeks to promote First Amendment causes in the country never appears to have pierced the vison of fear the pastor has for the group. The pastor notes several times that public schools in the country "favor Islam" and "denigrate Christianity". He went on to state that American colleges have more Marxists on the faculty than the entire former Communist bloc. Sources for such claims are footnoted by Fox News, Richard Land, Glenn Beck and R. J. Rushdoony. Others resources are found in the late radio preacher Marlin Maddoux and the Rutherford Institute. The connection of the dots between the nation and 1940s Germany did not resonate with me with the illustrations used. The grave irony of the book is that Moody Church was founded by the same founder as Moody Bible Institute. Moody Bible did have direct connections with ideology found in the Third Reich. Their president was connected with Elizabeth Dilling and the promotion of THE PROTOCOLS. The publications and teaching regarding European connections to end-of-times events often used anti-Semitic resources. I contacted the pastor's secretary and sent an email raising some of the questions. I have not yet heard a reply. There is no mention of Charles Coughlin, Gerald Smith or business leaders in the Chicago area during the Third Reich. These obvious links to much of the right wing hysteria found in 1930s America have roots in the fears expressed by Lutzer today. There is no mention of the work, IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, that award winning Sinclair Lewis wrote. Lewis speculated on Hitler's ideology finding fertile soil in the nation. Lewis might have found Lutzer to have much in common with his character Bishop Peter Paul Prang.
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