7th Day Adventists voted yes on the Nazi annexation of Austria and invasion of the Rhineland

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The 7th Day Adventist church asked its followers to hand Hitler "a thankful yes" in his annexation of Austria and invasion of the Rhineland.

Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church

HAROLD ALOMÍA

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The church’s guidance in voting increased in the years following the ban. For the plebiscite of April 10, 1938, which validated the annexation of Austria and the later invasions of the Rhineland, the church leadership decided that it would be good to illuminate the decisions of the Adventist voters. In a circular passed around on April 4, 1938, the German Union recommended that Adventists hand the Fuhrer “a thankful ‘yes’” (Blaich 1994:265).

Did the Nazi state really ban the 7th Day Adventist Church?

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7th Day Adventists try to cover their tracks of collaborating with the Nazis by saying the church was banned. The church was banned for less than two weeks under the Nazi regime, from 26 Nov 1933 to 6 Dec 1933, before and after which 7th Day Adventists leaders and publications carried pro-Nazi sentiments.

Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church

HAROLD ALOMÍA

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Sadly, in spite of all the praise and official stance that the church took in favor of the government, the Nazi state decided to ban the Adventist Church on November 26, 1933. This ban lasted until December 6, 1933 (Blaich 1994:262)

7th Day Adventist church in Germany followed Nazi "elimination of the weak" program

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The 7th Day Adventist church supported eliminating the weak in Nazi Germany.

Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church

HAROLD ALOMÍA

https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=jams

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The adoption of this viewpoint as part of Seventh-day Adventist thought was mixed with the church’s characteristic health message as a means to court the state and to gain favor with it. “While continuing the traditional emphasis on healthful living, Adventist publications soon adopted elements of the Nazi racial agenda. . . . A curious path led from caritas, the caring for the less fortunate and weak, to elimination of the weak, as the work of God” (Blaich 2002:180). T

German 7th Day Adventists supported an ethnic Volkisch state

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The 7th Day Adventist Church supported the Nazi folkish movement and viewed its members as the best of this ethnic mix.

Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church

HAROLD ALOMÍA

https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=jams

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It went on to support the notion of the Volkisch state, ascribing validity to that idea and saying it was in accordance with biblical principles. In the December 1933 edition of Gegenwartsfragen, one of the Adventist periodicals, it proudly proclaimed that “we are part of this revolution as well—as individual Christians and also as a corporate denominational body” (Blaich 1994:264). This type of enthusiastic approval of the state was not an isolated incident. The acceptance of the Volk concept with its racial undertones, its ideology of ethnic purity, and its implicit proscription of the Jews due to their racial heritage was accepted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church as part of the gospel proclamation. A church writer stated: “The Volk when organized . . . forms a Volksgemeinschaft or ethnic community, and Adventists should be among the very best members of such a community (Sinz 1977:17).

William Miller went from Freemason to anti-Freemason (or did he?)

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William Miller, the theologicain from whose ideas the 7th Day Adventist Church sprang, was an active Freemason until 1831. Miller resigned his Masonic membership in 1831, stating that he did so to "avoid fellowship with any practice that may be incompatible with the word of God among masons".[1] By 1833 he wrote in a letter to his friends to treat Freemasonry "as they would any other evil".[2]


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1. William Miller letter dated September 10, 1831 quoted in David L. Rowe, God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World (Eerdmans: 2008), p94.

2. God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World William Miller letter dated April 10, 1833 quoted in David L. Rowe, God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World (Eerdmans: 2008), p94.

German 7th Day Adventists leaders praised Hitler

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Hitler and the Nazi party were praised by 7th Day Adventist leaders in Germany, including the Church president Adolf Minck

Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church

HAROLD ALOMÍA

https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=jams

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Following in the footsteps of the Christian majority, the Seventh-day Adventist Church cannot be commended for its actions during the Nazi Regime. Echoing the praises for the rise of Hitler to power, Adolf Minck, President of the Adventist German Church, penned his satisfaction with the election of Adolf Hitler in the August Edition of Advenbote (the offical periodical of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany at that time): “A fresh enlivening, and renewing reformation spirit is blowing through our German lands . . . this is a time of decision, a time of such opportunities for a believing youth as has not been for a long time. . . . The word of God and Christianity shall be restored to a place of honor” (Minck 1994:259). Another example expressing enthusiasm for the Nazi state was Wilhem Mueller who went so far as to label Hitler as “chosen by God” for the office of chancellor and praising his similarity with Adventism’s health reform: “As an anti-alcoholic, non-smoker, [and] a vegetarian he is closer to our own view of health reform than anybody else” (Mueller 1994:260)