SEEDS OF HATE
Ost Fraktion
A religious belief should require consistency with its dictates and use political power to affect the course of history.
The Second World War provided a litmus test of coherence and bravery of religious confessions.
In this regard the winner is, as shown here, one of the least popular religions, today only known for its followers knocking at the doors, hand out flyers, reject blood transfusions and because their children have sad eyes: they are Jehovah's Witnesses.
"Biblical scholars" (initially this was their name) refuse to vote and to take part in any activity in which the individual seems to replace God. Obviously, in the first instance they refuse military service, the use of weapons and killing.
That ethical choice meant for them to be jailed everywhere until recently and they were useful to the movements for conscientious objection to military service.
In Nazi Germany all this could not be tolerated, so Jehovah's Witnesses were allowed to only one choice: either abjuration, and be free, or to be jailed in a concentration camp and die.
No one chose freedom.
25.000 believers, 10.000 deported, 1.000 to 5.000 dead.
At the same time Catholic bishops cheered for the defeat of a marxist heresy and maintained relations with the Nazis in the hope of not being outlawed. Pope Pio XII chose to remain silent. And to tolerate holocaust.
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I saw a man knocking at the door
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
I saw a man doing a fascist salute
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
I saw a man refusing guns
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
I saw a man dressed in black
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
Water the seeds of hate take care of the plants
The fruit is ripe and deals with nazi graft
Someone refused abjuration
Someone was jailed in concentration camp
Water the seeds of hate take care of your church
Catholicism is ripe and deals with nazi graft
Jehovah's Witness refused guns
Watchtower in Dachau, and the pope at home
I saw a man studying only one book
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
I saw a man wearing the uniform
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
I saw a man refusing guns
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
I saw a priest dressed in black
Where Seeds of hate were all planted
Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler. Note Joseph Goebbels and Wilhelm Frick