Paganism in 1930s Germany was more than growing. The influence of Nietsche’s anti-God “super-man” writings, Wagner’s Teuton-themed plays deifying the German gods and the German people, Blavatsky’s New Age Theosophism dominated.
The bio of Thomas Mann discusses this:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Thomas_Mann
“Nihilism” in art was a fad in Germany in the 1930s”:
http://www.answers.com/topic/nihilism
Their art in the 1930s was like today’s “abstract” art and things like a wooden panel, complete with hammer and nails for pounding into the wood. (Yoko Ono’s contribution to one “art” exhibit).
German so-called “theologians” began to dominate the anti-Biblical skepticism of “textual critics” from the 19th century, finding faults with the Bible that weren’t there.
Germany was already “acculturated” against Christianity, not just the Jews and Gypsies. The Christians that spoke out against the regime were as widely despised as Christians today who speak out and lament the official repudiation of God.
The Nazis arose in a backdrop of lots of such signs:
Nihilism,
paganism, along with Eastern mysticism
(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Theosophy)
…and…
http://tinyurl.com/46lgh6a
…or…
http://tinyurl.com/46vm2a5
paganism and Germanic racism in the arts,
abortion legal,
guns banned,
Christian teaching banned in public schools,
Darwinism promoted,
homosexuality promoted.
homosexuals used against Jews and Christians,
handicapped babies sacrificed at birth,
handicapped sacrificed as “useless eaters” (no “quality of life”),
Christian teachers expelled from public schools for their beliefs,
Christians and Jews blamed for the problems in public schools,
Christian private schools shut down,
big money backing him and all these campaigns for a seat at the table thinking they would dominate.
These were the cultural attributes of Germany in the 1930s before and during the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis.
These attributes are anathema to true Christians.
But beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing, to whom many go because they like teachers that “tickle their ears”, sing cumbaya, false prophets..
Christians are being infiltrated today by the same sicknesses listed above that infested Germany and weakened its national spiritual immune system so much.
In the political realm the government-media complex tells us so much that we need the same socialist and social policies that prepared Germany for its downfall, like hastening to give us Nazi-era gun laws.
And in the “religious”, Obama is expanding the Bush-era “faith based initiatives”, another Nazi-era trick to take over churches.
And not for nothing so many “Christian” leaders just love to use modern English “translations” of the Bible. They are translated using Greek dictionaries and lexicons based on the work of Hitler’s own Gerhard Kittel, his ten-volume “Theological Dictionary of the New Testament”.
This false prophet and wolf who did not even bother with sheeps’ clothing is the expert consulted by the translators of the NIV, ESV NLT and the rest of the modern “versions”! That’s why there is so much falsehood in them. That’s why they translate “race” instead of “seed”, and replace the proper word “servant” with the very wrong “slave”.
http://trutherator.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/1930s-germany-and-signs-of-the-ti...