“Anti – religious Communism” which is “largely under Jewish leadership” is blamed for the rise of Nazism in Germany in an article by Dunbar H. Ogden of New Orleans in the “Thoughts for the Week” department of the Presbyterian of the South, issue of September 15.
Following a paragraph quoting Dostaivsky as stating that the Russian atheism of the late nineteenth century was an “anguish of thirst,” Ogden writes:
“Out of this ‘anguish of thirst,’ largely under Jewish leadership, burst forth the two revolutions in our own day; from it came the anti-religious Soviet absolution, an attempt at complete Communism.
“Into Germany this anti-religious Communism has been pressing, and Hitler has met it with National Socialism or Nazism.”
The article concludes with the plea, “Let us avoid a totalitarian church. Such a church has never been a blessing.
“Let us avoid a totalitarian state. Such a state must ultimately prove a curse.”
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