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[sanderabeer]

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[Michie]

I knew of Boomer hate but not any trends by Christians trying to do makeover of Hitler.

 

[RileyG]

I knew of Boomer hate but not any trends by Christians trying to do makeover of Hitler.

He’s been dead for decades. It’s not possible to rehabilitate him.

 

[Michie]

He’s been dead for decades. It’s not possible to rehabilitate him.

Never heard of this from Christians. *shrug*

 

[RileyG]

Never heard of this from Christians. *shrug*

Me either. Unless you count the time when the LDS Church baptized him for the dead and sealed him and his late wife for eternity in the temple,,.but LDS isn’t Christian per CF rules.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

Because people in general are not satisfied with the mythological view of WW2 that we all grew up with. I wouldn't try to rehabilitate Hitler, but I would seek to understand him from a historical perspective. One not concerned with the good versus evil narrative as WW2 was far more complicated than such a narrative provides.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Maybe the author of the article should come up with a good working definition of "Christian".

 

[RileyG]

Because people in general are not satisfied with the mythological view of WW2 that we all grew up with. I wouldn't try to rehabilitate Hitler, but I would seek to understand him from a historical perspective. One not concerned with the good versus evil narrative as WW2 was far more complicated than such a narrative provides.

Understand him how?

I’m confused.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Malarkey.
I've never heard of a single instance of this.

 

[FireDragon76]

Malarkey.
I've never heard of a single instance of this.

As usual, I think the Christian post is reading in too much of their own ideology.

I'm Gen X and I think blaming "Boomers" and their supposed lack of morality is just asinine. The truth is, there's not a huge number of young people admiring Hitler, far from it. However, as we get further away from any living survivors that actually wittnessed the horrors of WWII, we can expect more people to not be familiar with the subject and say some dumb things. Especially as unfortunately online there is a presence of alt-right influencers actively seeking to rehabilitate Hitler and his ideology, often through clever and edgey memes that attract the young, who are notoriously impressionable and sometimes feel like the older generation doesn't understand them and isn't relatable (not unique to any particular generation).

 

[FireDragon76]

Maybe the author of the article should come up with a good working definition of "Christian".

Some Christians beat their wives, drive too fast, and drink too much, too. Trying to spin some kind of totalizing cultural narrative about how its all due to godless liberals in the 1960's seems to me to be just sophomoric nonsense that nobody outside the conservative Evangelical bubble is going to take seriously.

 

[Bob Crowley]

When I read the author's brief bio at the end of the article, I noted that he was originally born into a Jewish family. With all due respect, I think he might be a bit sensitive to the subject of Adolf Hitler.

The article immediately below the OP's reference is about something called the "Manosphere" which I'd never heard of either. But if that was his main source of the views of purportedly "young Christian men" then I'd say he's taken a rather biased sample. Conjecture on my own part, but if was going to look for Hitler fans, I'd knock on the doors of the far right wing groups, the Nazis and possibly some biker gangs.

I wouldn't go looking at the average church youth group.

Incidentally the person named Andrew Tate appeared briefly on a local TV news bulletin recently due to the charges that have been laid against him and others.

Until then I'd never heard of him. The passage below is from the caption beneath Tate's photograph in Mr. Spencer's second article.

Social Media Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are appearing in court to appeal a decision to proceed with their trial on charges of rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women. The Tate brothers were arrested on December 29, 2022, alongside Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu as part of an investigation into human trafficking and rape. | Getty Images/Andrei Pungovschi

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Source: Why are young Christian men trying to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler?

This is an "opinion" piece by some guy named Will Spencer. It's not a robust news article and doesn't provide any statistics, although I can appreciate the general evaluation he is advocating.

 

[David Lamb]

Source: Why are young Christian men trying to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler?

I wonder how the writer of the article your link leads to defines "Christian." Is he really saying that young men who know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord are involved in saying good things about Hitler?

 

[RDKirk]

Source: Why are young Christian men trying to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler?

From the link:

Consider: Boomers feared "selling out" in the 1960s. Yet after the dollar decoupled from the gold standard in 1971, near-endless dollars entered circulation via Federal Reserve debt. The Boomers ultimately sold out for the highest price imaginable: around $20 trillion.

Boomers also presided over the demolition of the family. Enforced feminist careerism and hormonal birth control drained young women’s fertility. No-fault divorce destroyed countless marriages. And abortion has claimed 60 million pre-born infant lives. All to serve the gods of pride, greed, and lust over biblical commands.

Then, as Boomers started families in the 70s and 80s, dual-income households became the norm, with “latchkey kids” raising themselves at home. (Recall that Ferris Bueller only got his “day off” because mom had to leave for work.) Meanwhile, cheap Chinese goods flooded American markets, decimating blue-collar manufacturing jobs and forcing men into offices. This meant crushing college debt to fund a white-collar career, whether a man was suited for it or not.

These idols — cheap foreign goods, feminism, divorce, casual sex, abortion, and usury — were the Boomers' gods. The social consequences of their worship hit with a rush, leading to the neon exuberance of the 1980s.

I'm going to debate that. Everything said did, indeed, happen, but Boomers did not initiate them. When those things were set into motion, Boomers were at today's Gen Z ages. We were not in control of politics or the economy.

The economy we Boomers were born into was based on America's global economic and political positioning after WWII. During the war, European and Japanese manufacturing had been bombed into oblivion, even down to the infrastructures of roads, rails, power generation, et cetera, while the US was totally untouched and had even become stronger. At the birth of the literal post-WWII Baby Boom, the US had undisputed global economic supremacy.

But that bubble of supremacy had broken by the end of the 1960s because Europe and Japan had rebuilt by then and had caught up. That in itself was nothing anyone in the US had done wrong (we couldn't continue bombing them, after all). I distinctly remember when we began seeing Japanese cars for sale in the late 60s...we teen-aged Boomers all laughed at the tiny, buzzy "rice-burners" at the time.

The War Generation (aka "Greatest Generation") was in control of politics, media, and economics. Boomers didn't decouple the dollar from the gold standard. Boomers didn't pass no-fault divorce laws. Boomers didn't invent the birth control pill. Boomers didn't create feminism. Boomers didn't pass Roe v Wade.

Everything that paragraph describes was done by the War Generation.. No, not out of malice, of course...they just didn't know what they didn't know. They thought the WWII bubble could be sustained forever. For that matter, much of politics, media, and economics is still under control of the War Generation....those folks aren't gone yet at the top, and they're still trying to sustain the WWII bubble.

We Boomers did not detect what was happening in the late 60s and into the 70s. In fact, the economy nearly collapsed just as we were entering it. But that near collapse was camouflaged by the government and banks flooding the system with fiat currency. The late 60s was when credit cards were made available--open lines of unsecured credit--and sold to Boomers like hotdogs. The value of labor was plummeting, but we didn't consciously realize it because credit had become so easy and women were working. We were just too young at the time, not wise enough to realize we were frogs in slowly boiling water.

 

[RDKirk]

When I read the author's brief bio at the end of the article, I noted that he was originally born into a Jewish family. With all due respect, I think he might be a bit sensitive to the subject of Adolf Hitler.

The article immediately below the OP's reference is about something called the "Manosphere" which I'd never heard of either. But if that was his main source of the views of purportedly "young Christian men" then I'd say he's taken a rather biased sample. Conjecture on my own part, but if was going to look for Hitler fans, I'd knock on the doors of the far right wing groups, the Nazis and possibly some biker gangs.

I wouldn't go looking at the average church youth group.

Incidentally the person named Andrew Tate appeared briefly on a local TV news bulletin recently due to the charges that have been laid against him and others.

Until then I'd never heard of him. The passage below is from the caption beneath Tate's photograph in Mr. Spencer's second article.

What's happening here is just a general presumption that it's "Christian men" because Christianity still dominates the question of "what religion are you?" in the US. This article could have been written by someone else who would have said "white men" or just "men."

Andrew Tate, for instance, I think does vaguely identify as "Christian" because his parents are, although nothing he says or does is compatible with the lifestyle of Christ.

 

[Apple Sky]

Rather than turning to Christ's sacrifice for deliverance from false gods, however, young Christian men and the influencers they follow are being discipled in Hitler's fictitious sacrifice instead. This has resulted in even deeper spiritual poverty that is damaging churches, families, friendships, and reputations. Like a metastasizing cancer, the idol-worshippers have also begun attacking older ministers who remained faithful when many others in their generation did not.

Why are young Christian men trying to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler?

Recently, a troubling trend has emerged on social media young Christian men are trying to rehabilitate the image of Adolf Hitler

www.christianpost.com

 

[Aaron112]

Maybe the author of the article should come up with a good working definition of "Christian".

?
'not worldly'
'not following a religion of man'
'not believing the manmade doctrines'
'not promoting sin'
'not promoting false gospel nor false teachings nor anything false'
'not promoting any manmade explanations'
'not promoting nor teaching things that are flesh-origin(not from above , not from the Father) '
'not promoting anything anti-Scripture even in the tiniest detail'
'not promoting anything instead of Jesus' Way'
'not promoting man's way(s), of men'
'not subject to hasatan'
'not carnal'
'not "for show"'
'not deceptive in any way - no spot nor wrinkle'
'not using fleshly means for fleshly purposes; not greedy; not selfish'
that's for starters.

 

[Mark Quayle]

?
'not worldly'
'not following a religion of man'
'not believing the manmade doctrines'
'not promoting sin'
'not promoting false gospel nor false teachings nor anything false'
'not promoting any manmade explanations'
'not promoting nor teaching things that are flesh-origin(not from above , not from the Father) '
'not promoting anything anti-Scripture even in the tiniest detail'
'not promoting anything instead of Jesus' Way'
'not promoting man's way(s), of men'
'not subject to hasatan'
'not carnal'
'not "for show"'
'not deceptive in any way - no spot nor wrinkle'
'not using fleshly means for fleshly purposes; not greedy; not selfish'
that's for starters.

How about, Born-again-believer. What he was talking about didn't sound to me like someone belonging to Christ.

 

[Yarddog]

He’s been dead for decades. It’s not possible to rehabilitate him.

Lol, I was wondering that, as well. Then I read the article and there is very little about Hitler in the article. It seems to be more about questioning what they have learned from past generations.