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Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview (Concordia Scholarship Today) Paperback – January 1, 1993

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This book clearly defines fascism as a complex core of ideas that

  • exalts the nation-state or race
  • disregards the individual and the individual's rights
  • employs thought control and strict regimentation
  • disregards moral objectivity.

Dr. Veith shows how fascism is shaping society, unwittingly as well as knowingly. He carefully clarifies fascism's relation to other ideas that also mold our thinking. Most important, he skillfully and convincingly combines historical narrative, cultural criticism, and theological analysis, offering guidance and hope for those jostled and shaken by ideological crosscurrents.

The author also exposes the fallacy in the criticism that belief in theological dogma inhibits an open-ended search for knowledge and truth. He convincingly demonstrates that Christian theology provides a useful framework for acquiring and for integrating knowledge and doesn't stifle the pursuit of truth. Dr. Veith exposes, explains, and counsels without dogmatically prescribing responses.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Concordia Pub House; First Edition (January 1, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0570046033
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0570046035
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Gene Edward Veith is the Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College, the Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, a columnist for World Magazine and TableTalk, and the author of 18 books on different facets of Christianity & Culture.

Find out more at: http://wherechristispresent.com and www.1517legacy.com

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Archimedes Tritium
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating. Utterly fascinating.
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2000
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Wish I'd known about this book years ago, instead of discovering it a couple weeks ago.

It's a given that Nazi's are the perennial bad guys of movies and history, with Hitler usually a stand-in for Satan. It's normally overlooked that they had a specific philosophy, that most of their support and leadership came from university intellectuals.

What did Nazis believe and why? Why did they want to kill Jews? Most people actually don't know (some European counties even ban Hitler's book "Mein Kampf") and that, to some degree, is by intent, though it flies in the face of "... if you don't know your history, you are condemned to repeat it...."

In the 1920's and 1930's fascism was popular among intellectuals in the US and abroad. It wasn't until after the war, when the results became clear that many repudiated it.

This book shows the ideas actually lived on, tracing them through specific people and events into the "kinder, gentler" faces we now call New Age and "PC" and "Post-modernism".

Whereas the Judeo-Christian heritage focused on a transcendent God and moral law, fascism rejected that for what is tangible and in nature. Nature and community assume a mystical role.

Essentially, these things are the pre-Christian European paganism of antiquity, coupled with modern media and armies. As part of this, Goering sought to re-establish the ancient "sacred" sites of Germany ... in many ways, Nazism was the revival of the cult of Woten, reborn in the philosophies of Darwin, Nietschze and Romantiscm.

These beliefs were the unquestioned underlying assumptions of the intellectual elites in the 1930's and they remain so today.

Marxism and fascism, far from being polar opposites have much in common. Nazism = socialism + nationalism, while Marxism = socialism + internationalism. Difference is mostly method and in the early part of the century, intellectuals would switch back and forth from being marxists to fascists.

This book draws extensively on original sources to document the purpose and intent of 20th century fascism to eliminate the Judeo-Christian heritage. It documents Hitler's orders to Goebbels and Goering to maintain leadership roles in the church, to maintain credibility, against their will and how in his own words "... after difficult inner struggles I had freed myself of my remaining childhood religious conceptions...".

Hitler wrote how, having solved the more manageable Jewish problem, it would be necessary to address the "church problem": "The point that must be reached is to have the pulpits filled with none but boobs, and the congregations with none but old women. The healthy young people are with us."

And from a Hitler Youth camp song: "We are the happy Hitler youth, we have no need for Christian virtue for Adolph Hitler is our intercessor, and our Redeemer ..."

The book then traces the philosophy of fascism from it's origins into the modern institutions of today. Not perfect, but an awesome book in implication.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know why the country (and the world for that matter) is so screwed up ...
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If you want to know why the country (and the world for that matter) is so screwed up, and you want historical proofs not just opinion then read this book. The author takes us all the way back to the Renaissance, through the Reformation, and then to the Enlightenment, where everything goes wrong, and stays wrong. This is followed by the Romantic era, then the Modern era. All the while the theme of fascistic thought is examined. This is nothing new but a direct result of Western civilization giving up the concept of absolutes for the so-called freedom of thought engendered by the Enlightenment philosophers. They may not have been "Fascists" but they sure helped the idea along. The conclusion is that although Fascism as a political movement is no longer active, its ideas are still with us, and getting stronger every day. Our politicians are fascistic and don't even know it, because they follow Enlightenment thinking (when they think at all). As you can tell, this book has been a very stimulating read. It shows us why our Western civilization, in rejecting Christianity, is setting itself up for disaster.
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B. Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars See How Fascism Springs from a Rejection of Absolute Truth
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This book really helped me understand the essence of fascism from a religious perspective. I think it leaves out a lot of the political dimension, which Jonah Goldberg covers in his book Liberal Fascism, but it complements Goldberg's book too. I did not know the relationship between existentialism and postmodernism, for one thing. They are very similar nature-worshiping, anti-rational philosophies that came out of romanticism. The scary thing is that both provide a good foundation for totalitarianism and have in fact encouraged fascism in history. Paul De Man the postmodernist intellectual was a dedicated fascist, as was Martin Heidegger the existentialist. Veith shows convincingly that the existential/postmodern rejection of transcendence (a belief in a Creator God and/or absolute truth) in effect opens the door to an obsession with power-relationships rather than truth, which no longer exists for them. It was also encouraging to see that the confessing church in Germany was one of the few movements able to resist the Nazis, precisely because they made their stand on absolute truth in the form of traditional doctrinal confessions of faith. They won Albert Einstein's esteem for this. I doubt that the postmodern Emergent Church movement and others like them realize that they may be sowing the seeds of totalitarianism and are certainly robbing the church of her strongest defense against authoritarianism -clear theological truth found in Scripture.
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Kalos
4.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Forget What Fascism Is
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Dr. Veith makes it clear: you cannot understand the Nazis, nor the Holocaust, nor the 20th century (and for that matter, not even our own times) without understanding fascism and its intellectual roots. Fascism is a response to--no, a revolt against--Enlightenment rationalism and the Judeo-Christian notion of transcendent truth, or truth that applies to everyone. Transcendent truth has an absolute standard by which to judge the state: "It is wrong for you, Hitler, to kill six million Jews." Fascism creates its own truth: "You, who judge the Reich by some universal law, impede the master race from greatness. You shall be trampled; the will of the Führer shall triumph!" That, in a nutshell, is what the book is about: what happens when we and society loosen ourselves from God's moral law. We do what is right in our own eyes, and in the end it leads to death.

Perhaps the most important lesson you can learn from the book is this: be careful what you believe. Philosophy is dangerous, and ideas have consequences.
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S. Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars Written 30 years ago but even more relevant today as it was then
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2022
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This is a fascinating read if you are interested in the ideological direction of our society from a Christian perspective. It is ostensibly about fascism in the early 20th century but the writer draws out the many similarities between the fascist worldview and the atheistic movements in our society, similarities which go unrecognised by the proponents of these anti-transcendent and anti-objective morality and truth movements, but would be horrified by if the similarities to fascism was pointed out to them. The insight I have gained is that seemingly disparate godless ideologies all converge into similar beliefs of immanent morality and subjective truth which is strongly opposed to the transcendent Judeo-christian worldview and committed to first undermining then tearing down Western Judeo-Christian based culture and rebuilding it on the only thing left; the will to power. The will to power actually means an elite imposing its ideas of right and wrong upon society, the very thing cultural marxism faults the West for now. Thanks to Gene Edward Veith Jr, I now see the present Wokery, BLM, LGBT and transgender movements as hostile movements intent on undermining Western culture by subverting all the good it has has achieved and asserting it needs to be replaced with something much better, a pre-Christian/Jewish pagan worldview based on power.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Australia on June 17, 2015
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I. C. Devereux
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascism - still with us.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2014
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Not at all written in an "academic" or "scholarly" style, instead clear and accessible.

A very interesting read. Fascism is regarded too simplistically in our popular media and in secondary education. The author shows the intellectual & philosophical roots of the fascist movements of the early 20th Century, then goes on to demonstrate that those roots are still alive and growing in postmodern society.
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