Christian fundamentalists found a silver lining in the Holocaust

Continuing my reading of The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel by Caitlin Carenen: During World War II, the mainstream American Protestants came around to the idea of helping the Jews being massacred in Europe, but the fundamentalists  looked at the extermination of the Jews as part of God's plan. During the years of Hitler's campaign against the European Jews, the fundamentalist periodicals, such...

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Christian periodical in the 1930s warned that acting Jewish causes antisemitism

Continuing on my reading of  The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel by Caitlin Carenen, we see that the influential Christian Century magazine was against persecuted Jews immigrating to Palestine. But they were also against Jews coming to America, too.  "There is no ethical principle that requires either an individual person or nation to expose itself to a condition sure to involve a moral overstrain....Our...

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Christian Century in 1942: "Jews are exaggerating - only half of Polish Jews slated to be exterminated by 1943"

I mentioned I was reading  The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel by Caitlin Carenen. One of the reasons that US media were reluctant to publish stories about Nazi atrocities against Jews was because the Allies has published similar reports during World War I that were discovered to have been fabricated. But this episode with...

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When American Protestants blamed Jesus' crucifixion on Zionism

I am just starting to read an excellent but fairly obscure book called The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel by Caitlin Carenen. It goes through how mainstream and other strains of American Protestants dealt with Jews and Israel from about 1930-2000. The book is well researched - and every page illuminates the thinking of Protestants...

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