Grouchy's Liberaltopia: Religious Zealotry Archives -
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Published on: 6/14/2004
Last Visited: 3/3/2005
United Methodist minister Rev. William E. Alberts accuses some of Bush's followers of upholding a "super religion displaying tendencies similar to Hitler's super race with its fascist ideology of superiority."
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But then you have the above-quoted Methodist minister Rev. William E. Alberts too.The problem is not any specific religion but the specific necessity of crisis-ridden capitalism to transform the world, exploiting religion whenever it's useful to do so.Hitler embarked on his world-transforming mission depicting himself as devout God-fearing man; in Mein Kampf he refers repeatedly to "the Lord," "the Almighty," and Jesus as "the great founder of a new doctrine.""I am fighting for the work of the Lord," he declared, and a whole lot of German Christians, Protestants and Catholics, believed him.