Actually had a coworker try to tell me Antifa are fascists

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45. If you look into the Naxi party a little

more closely, you will find that Hitler and those closest to him did not believe in Christian theology. But like many people who seek absolute rule, they presented themselves as having God on their side. A bit like extremists everywhere who use religion for political domination, e.g. Trump and evangelicals, and terrorists who use their faith to justify political jihads.

There were 3 Christian leaders known for their opposition to Nazis, and many more unknown ones who worked with them. Martin Niemoller, Lutheran pastor, wrote the well known words "First they came for the Communists...." He was one of 3 men who founded the "confessing church" in opposition to the Nazi ruled "German Christian" church. Pastor Niemoller was arrested and survived 2 concentration camps.

Carl Barth was a German Swiss Reformed church theologian teaching and preaching in Bonn, Germany. He wrote a letter of opposition that he sent to Hitler. Removed from his post, he returned to Switzerland, where he assisted Christians inside Germany in their Nazi opposition.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who opposed Nazis before they came to power. He opposed the Nazi state takeover of Christian churches and founded an emergency program for pastors threatened by Nazis. Ran an underground "seminary" to train opposition clergy. Preached against Nazi euthanasia of "imperfect people" and genocidal attacks on Jews.

Bonhoeffer went to the US in 1939 to avoid conscription in the Nazi army. But he returned because he believed it was his moral duty to stand with the German people in order to lead reconstruction afterward. He was executed in a concentration camp 2 days before liberation.