Thursday, October 9, 2008
Bruce Walker's The Swastika against the Cross
"Walker explains in context of the abandonment of Christianity how Weimar Germany was a society in moral free-fall. Millions of people officially renounced their Christianity. Rampant premarital sex among high school students and the common place occurrence of abortion, proliferation of pornography, general embracing of hedonism, with the attendant degradation of art and the emergence of atonal music reflected a society without traditional moorings, primed for the rise of the cult of personality which became Hitler worship as replacement of traditional religious expression."