Whether it was propaganda or not, if Martin Luther had not had antiSemitic and replacement theology beliefs, and had not vocalized and publicized his hatred and contempt of the Jewish people, the Nazis would not have had that to use as further justification for their mass murder of God's chosen people.
The antiSemitism and replacement theology continues today in direct and deliberate contradiction to Jesus Christ and His Scripture.
The bottom line, at the end of the day, is that there are people who espouse the same beliefs, whether we want to call it propaganda or not, as the Nazis used as validation for their actions.
Oh, but they absolutely did, as your quote proves! But it is not the incorporation of Lutheranism itself.
The bottom line, at the end of the day, is that there are people who espouse the same beliefs, whether we want to call it propaganda or not, as the Nazis used as validation for their actions.
Again, very true. And had there not been supersessionism within the largely Lutheran Germany, I doubt the citizens could have turned a blind eye to what was going on. However, that may not be entirely the case - Germany chaffed at the impositions placed upon her at the end of WWI, so they may well have turned a blind eye regardless, in an effort to reclaim the glory days and in order to reclaim a right to be a world power. The general idea that Germans have an air of superiority is not far-fetched.
It was the implication that Naziism was an extension of Lutheranism that I took exception to... Unlike the Roman church, whose European crusades decimated the Jewish people right along with Christian 'heretics'... THAT was most assuredly an extension of the religion itself. Do I make the difference distinct in that example?
Nevertheless, I stand with you, as I said, in the statement that Christianity has been an offense against the Jewish people for 1900 years, which is a crying shame, and against the Word of YHWH.