PAGAN NAZI WEDDINGS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21177, 29 July 1940, Page 3

PAGAN NAZI WEDDINGS

CROSS REPLACED BY SWASTIKA Hitler is trying to dethrone the Cross by substituting the swastika for that sacred emblem of truth and righteousness, writes a foreign correspondent of Answers, London. He has done this literally at Mainbernheim, in his own Bavaria, where the Cross on the pinnacle of the Protestant Church was replaced by a swastika at his express instructions. Hitler instructed his deputy, Hess, to represent him, with Labour Chief Ley and Nazi Philosopher Rosenberg, at a pagan festival held in Goslar a few days before the recent war broke out. The object was “to return thanks” for the promise of harvest, not to Almighty God, but to Hitler, “ the creator of all German, good.” A young woman witnessed a Nazi pagan wedding recently. “Heil, Hitler” took the place of solemn religious vows, and the swastika stood where the Cross previously stood. The “altar” was a paganised erection, with flags over a silver-framed portrait of Hitler, beneath which was a bronze bowl filled with spiritsoaked cotton wool and coke. When the bridegroom arrived a Storm Trooper lighted the contents of the bowl, whereupon a tongue of flame leaped up and burned like a torch throughout the ceremony. The officiating Storm Trooper, taking the place of the clergyman, read from a document: “You recognise that you need no preacher to take your oath of fidelity. Nor do you require the blessing of the Christian Church nor of a priest. Blessing for you lies in the fulfilment of your duty to the nation.” Instead of the “I will” the bride and groom said: “Das is recht” (That is so), whereupon the Storm Trooper declared them man and wife: “You are united in Nazi world philosophy,” and the “married” couple responded with: “Marriage is a fortress of German blood. It is the gateway to Immortality.” It was necessary to Hitler’s success that the soul of the German people should be freed from the Christian religion and enslaved to the pagan Nazi philosophy. Christianity stood in Hitler’s way; so Christianity had to be destroyed. Man-Greater-Than-God Cult “It is Man who makes God,” the people were taught by Professor Ernst Bergmann. “Man created God in his own image, in the image of Man created he Him.” Bergmann, as Hitler’s chief “evangelist,” instructed the students of the University of Leipzig in the “Man-greater - than-God” cult, and sent them out to teach “the new German faith” to the youth of the country. It is that anti-God blight with which Hitler would infect the whole world because, before he could achieve the world-domination which is his ambition, Christianity, whose teachings stand in his way, must be destroyed. Only when the Deity is dethroned can the Dictator reign. This process of paganism is denounced by the religious leaders in Christian countries and of all denominations. It hgs been denounced by the Pope. The Dean of Chichester, a great Anglican dignitary, has written a book exposing the war between Hitler and Christianity; the Rev. J. Ernest James, head of the Congregational Union, stated, last summer, that “a world war is being waged against the Christian idea of God,” and in the same week the Rev. P. T. Thomson, president of the Baptist Assembly, described Nazism as “an obscene creature, spawned by anti-Christ.”