Authors Bodie and Brock Thoene are best-selling authors who have written over 45 works of historical fiction. One of their series, Zion Covenant, focuses on World War II. In the course of researching and writing the series, they told the story of a German woman, Lori Kalner, who was a child when Hitler came to power, the daughter of a pastor. Lori wrote a letter in September warning Americans not to vote for Barack Obama. I've quoted excerpts below but urge you to read her entire powerful warning:
"I was a young girl in Germany and lived through difficult times.The world...for many years remembered what happened politically in Germany with the Depression in the 1930s. You remember how it began and thus progressed with the horrors of war which followed.
The battle was at the beginning a Spiritual battle....
"Here is my warning to all: Perhaps it will be my last warning. (I wake up each day surprised that I am still here and not in heaven with those who wait for me!)
America and the whole world hangs in the balance now. I believe that America will stand or fall depending on who is elected President this year. Good Americans, like the good Germans of my youth, may think that the issues of their nation center around the economy. I tell you now that the fate of the greatest nation on earth does not depend on money.
"Every issue must only be judged worthy and true by the Word of God. Prosperity comes to a nation and a people who serves the Lord first. That is a basic spiritual principle which is seen in every book of Holy Scripture....
"This is where the healing of America begins: Friend, you must begin with examination of your own life first and the confession of your sins. Then pray for your nation. Ask yourself now: who supports the rights of the unborn babies and also of those who are handicapped?...
"Now, today, I hear the words and know the deeds of this Barack Obama and I know that he is a 'gifted,' convincing, fellow. He is telling you how bad you have it and saying to Americans he is their messiah and the answer to all problems. The propaganda machine loves Obama. The power of the media is much greater than in my childhood; a frightening thought. But here is TRUTH: of all men in the US government this Obama has most strongly encouraged and urged the on-going slaughter of the unborn 'the useless mouths' of America. This slaughter is performed in the name of 'A woman's reproductive rights.'
"In the land of my birth, the Holocaust all began with the first step of legalized abortion. Abortion was ENCOURAGED by a downturn in the world economics....
"I warn you, my dear American friends, with love in my heart and with my last breaths that no man or woman, Protestant or Catholic, can remain in God's favor or blessing if they vote for this Obama.... Now I say that you who are Catholic must not follow after this man Obama who is gifted in his words but NOT speaking the TRUE WORDS OF OUR LORD OR THE CHURCH! You cannot be a true Catholic Christian and vote for Obama. To vote for him is to vote for continued infanticide. To Protestant Christians, I say, you are not a Christian if you support the slaughter of the unborn!
"Christianity and abortion are spiritually impossible companions....
"Do you feel you cannot vote for Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin, who are for the LIFE of the unborn and handicapped? If you cannot support these leaders, then for the sake of your soul, I, who have seen the spiritual destruction of many good people, Protestants and Catholics, urge you NOT TO VOTE for Obama or anyone who does not support protection of LIFE!...
"Most of my generation is gone now. You who are taking control of the world have a fight ahead of you as the memory of our peril dims. I have heard and listened closely to the voices of Sarah Palin and John McCain, and my spirit bears witness that they speak truth and are the true Hope-Bearers of your generation. Sarah is a true Deborah. Pray for her and her family and also for John McCain. You must all remember what happened to us and not repeat the same mistake of apathy. If I cannot write to you again I pray we will meet in heaven and you will tell me I helped you encourage others to do the right thing for the sake of your soul and for the nation."
Please, Catholics, take note. Lori Kalner calls on you to begin with CONFESSION. I also read an exhortation from a priest recently who said the same thing. Before the election get right with God. Go to confession and join the rosary novena that begins Monday October 27th to pray daily for God's will to be done on November 4th.
It's nonsense to claim that "The Holocaust began with Abortion."
ReplyDeleteThe truth is that "The Nazis championed traditional family values: their ideology was conservative, bourgeois, patriarchal, and strongly antifeminist. Discipline and conformity were emphasized, marriage promoted, abortion and homosexuality despised. . .
"Most religious Germans detested the impiety, secularism, and hedonistic decadence that they associated with such modernist ideas as (the U.S.A.'s) democracy and free speech."
and "While abortion was illegal in pre-Hitler Germany, he took it to new depths of enforcement, requiring all doctors to report to the government the circumstances of all miscarriages (to make sure they weren't abortions in disguise). He openly despised homosexuality and criminalized it."
[ quoted at my
JesusWouldBeFurious.Org/Hitlersfaith.html ]
You don't know what you're talking about. The Nazis established Lebensborns which were basically stud farms. They encouraged "pure blood" Aryan women to breed without benefit of marriage so they could produce their Nordic super race. They certainly were not pro-marriage. [See Of Pure Blood by Marc Hillel & Clarissa Henry]
ReplyDeleteThe Nazis mandated eugenic sterilization to control the "unfit." In fact, they established a race bureau to make sure only the right people propagated. In 1935 they amended the eugenics law to allow a Hereditary Health Court to determine when a woman was "unfit for procreation" and enforce compulsory abortion. Abortion was encouraged for Jews, Poles, gypsies, and other undesirables. In the eastern countries invaded by the Nazis a racial evaluation was done with abortion encouraged for the unfit (who failed to pass the race test) and denied for those with the right characteristics. The only abortions they opposed were Aryans. It was patriotic to reproduce for the Reich without benefit of marriage. [See Abortion Questions and Answers by Jack and Barbara Willke and Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius].
As for homosexuality, the Nazis were loaded with butch homosexuals in the SS and SA. They discriminated against effeminate gays only. While Hitler himself was probably not homosexual he surrounded himself with those who were. In 1934 Hitler orchestrated a purge of the SA brownshirts (Night of the Long Knives) including his close friend homosexual Ernst Roehm. While he framed it as a moral purge, it was really the elimination of political rivals. Hitler feared that the Wehrmacht was preparing a political coup. [Read The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party by Scott Lifely and Kevin Abrams.
To say that the Nazis "championed traditional family values" is so patently absurd it's amazing anyone could make such a ridiculous claim.
Hitler and his cronies had no faith except "My will be done." While he was baptized Catholic, he persecuted and executed priests and others who stood up for the true faith. He painted himself as the Messiah in the sense of the Norse gods. It's interesting that Wagner was his favorite composer. To call him a pagan is to insult ethical men like Socrates, Aristotle, and Hippocrates.
I looked at your hate-filled website. I don't know what your issue is with the Church, but I'll sure pray for you. The Catholic Church has done more to assist homosexuals with AIDS, saved more Jews during the Holocaust than any other institution, etc.
I think your statement of arrogance is misdirected. The shoe fits your own foot.