The 7th Day Adventist church allows the Nazi party to publish pro-sterilization articles in their journals and remained silent in regards to the campaign.
Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
HAROLD ALOMÍA
Pg. 9
Furthering its compromise the Adventist Church also agreed with
the forced sterilization policy, also known as the Eugenics Laws (Blaich
2002:176). At first the opposition to such policies was open and general
among the church members and leadership as it was viewed to be a violation of Christian principles. However in response to this resistance the
government responded with an educational campaign that used Adventist journals to defend the new eugenics laws. Again, hermeneutical acrobatics were used to defend the government’s position that was based
on principles that were completely antagonistic to Adventist beliefs. The
farfetched explanation suggested the notion that Christians should “not
[be] interfering with nature’s process of cleansing the nation’s racial pool”
(Blaich 2002:177).
As the eugenics policies became law the opposition to such concepts
and legislation was silenced from Adventist publications. Sterilization was
only a first step in this racial attack; the next step involved the elimination of those who were deemed to be hazardous elements to the German
gene pool. Those who opposed euthanasia were Catholics and Lutherans,
while Adventists remained silent (Blaich 2002:180).
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