1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
“14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:”
For such an outlandish claim as your title clearly makes could you not find more than one scripture to base it upon??
Dr. Pei Wan Yoo
It is widely believed that these preachings that are attributed to Paul are infact fabrications, written by Ireneus and Constantine to paint Paul as a zealot when in fact his message was very much about unity, if not in faith then in humanity.
Paul was a Jew. Hitler was an atheist. Those Hitler persecuted believe in the very same God as Paul. You have made all the wrong connections here.
This is simply unintelligent and irresponsible propaganda.
Actually, the only propaganda here is your statement regarding Hitler being an atheist. Just a simple glance through some of his own memoirs would have told you that… And, while Paul was a Jew by birth, he certainly did not hold to any of the Jewish traditions. Jew by genetics, not by belief.
Actually, Hitler was a Roman Catholic. He was never excommunicated, not even after his death.
Not only was Hitler a Roman Catholic, the papacy endorsed his actions against the Jews and assisted top Nazi’s after WW2 in escaping. They even pleaded leniency to the one’s who stood trial, with no words of compassion for the 6 million souls who perished under this regime.
This is all true except that best estimates of number of Holocaust victims place it closer to 12 million (6 million Jews). Beyond that, an additional 60 million or so “perished under this regime” in the War.
But if you think about it, it doesn’t even matter if Hitler was a practicing Catholic, an Atheist, or even a Jew himself (of the Schicklgruber bastard sort); the fact is that he used preexisting antisemitism to launch himself into power. This racism had its roots in the bible, regardless of when it was added, and was — officially, mind you — sanctioned by countless popes over two millennia.
It’d be nice to think that the current pope (a former Nazi himself, mind you) was above this, but that’d clearly be asking too much. Last year, Herr Ratzinger changed the “Good Friday Prayer for the Jews” (yes, that’s really the name) back to its original formulation, beseeching that they finally see the light. And present-day anti-Semites rejoiced the world over.