Jehovah’s Witnesses have published material that has exposed the fanaticism of the kind of fascism that informed Hitler’s Nazism, and has exposed the way that the Roman Catholic Church and other religions became bloodguilty both by their silence in the face of the Holocaust, and by their not censuring their members who actively participated the persecutions that resulted in the deaths of millions in WWII. For examples:
“[We should not forget] the illicit religio-political relationship that catapulted Hitler into power in Nazi Germany . . . Did the Catholic Church condemn Mussolini’s barbarity? While the pope issued ambiguous statements, his bishops were quite vocal in blessing the armed forces of their Italian “fatherland.” ….
“The Civil War of 1936-39 in [Spain] was sparked, in part, by the democratic government’s taking steps to reduce the huge power of the Roman Catholic Church. As the war got under way, the Catholic Fascist leader of the revolutionary forces, Franco, described himself as “the Christian Generalissimo of the Holy Crusade,” a title that he later dropped. Several hundred thousand Spaniards died in the fighting. Apart from this, according to a conservative estimate, Franco’s Nationalists had murdered 40,000 Popular Front members, while the latter had murdered 8,000 clerics —monks, priests, nuns, and novices. Such is the horror and tragedy of civil war, illustrating the wisdom of heeding Jesus’ words: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword.” ([Matthew 26:52]) How disgusting that Christendom gets involved in such massive bloodshed! Her clergy have indeed failed utterly to “beat their swords into plowshares”! — [Isaiah 2:4]”….
“ . . . since Catholic intrigue helped to bring Hitler to power in Germany, the Vatican shares in a terrible bloodguilt with regard to the six million Jews that died in Nazi pogroms.”
(All quoted material was taken from Revelation — Its Grand Climax At Hand, [Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, New York: 1988] pp. 262-263.
In the same publication, we read this, too: “From Jehovah’s viewpoint, the world’s religions are bloodguilty because they have not convincingly taught their followers the truth of Jehovah’s requirements for his servants. They have not convincingly taught people that God’s true worshippers must imitate Jesus Christ and show love toward others regardless of their national origin. (Micah 4:3, 5; John 13:34, 35; Acts 10:34, 35; 1 John 3:10-12) Because the religions making up Babylon the Great [ = all false religion in all the world] have not taught these things, their adherents have been drawn into the vortex of international warfare. How evident this was in the two world wars of the first half of the 20th-century, both of which started in Christendom and resulted in fellow religionists’ slaughtering one another! If all who claimed to be Christians had adhered to Bible principles, those wars could never have taken place” (ibid. p. 271).
The autocratic governments in Hitler’s Nazi empire, Lenin-Stalin’s USSR, Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain, and Castro’s Cuba operated, at different times in the 20th-century, contrary to principles that are called “human rights,” namely, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly — freedoms traditionally informing the heretofore more stable (democratic) governments, more or less so, because even their record is anything but righteous. Witness their murderous racism, white supremacist doctrine, nationalism, exploitative treatment of labor, pollution of the environment, etc.
So, is there once again becoming an ascendancy of fascism for an “illicit religio-political relationship” that threatens “human rights”? Yes, there is right now much of that in evidence; for example, we see it in Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation’s liaison with the Russian Orthodox Church. They use gaslighting techniques to make people believe that they need to fear certain ones they label as extremists when, in fact, if the people were not gaslighted/brainwashed, then they could plainly see who are the real extremists and persecutors, that they (the latter, i.e., the extremists and persecutors) are the ones who play the role of a victim when in fact they have the role of a villain, all this in imitation of their father, the Devil. And time will again tell if the rising tide of fascism will embolden certain clergymen, e.g., evangelicals, to intrigue with politicians in gaslighting their “flocks” in traditionally democratic countries by psychologically manipulating them (the masses) into support of state-sponsored suppression of freedoms of speech, worship, assembly, proselytization, and press — with the likely result of imprisonments and tortures that Satan the Devil wants to see visited upon Jehovah’s Witnesses. We Jehovah’s Witnesses know that our real fight is not against gaslighting politicians — no, not against flesh and blood — but is rather against the original Gas-lighter, the father of the lie, as Jesus called him. The Bible at 2 Corinthians 11:4 warns us against him in these words: “And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light.”
My friends and I have a tremendous wealth of resources at hand in http://JW.ORG/ -- resources that encourage us by setting forth the reminders in God’s Word the Bible so that we do not fall victim to Satan’s wily efforts to manipulate our minds and conduct in ways that are opposed to God’s will for us in these last days. Anyone reading this can go online to http://JW.ORG/ for such encouragement. And you may also contact any of Jehovah’s Witnesses for Bible-based conversation, for building a firm hope for a happy future when the God of the Bible has brought an end to the rule of Satan and his minions, the ones who cause so much chaos in manmade governments today.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1: "Again I turned my attention to all the acts of oppression that go on under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and there was no one to comfort them. And their oppressors had the power, and there was no one to comfort them."
Some political rulers today want you to think of them as "the Leader," "the Savior," "the Anointed One." They have no commission from the God of the Bible. Those men dominate their fellow men to their harm, just as we read at Ecclesiastes 8:9: ". . . and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, during the time that man has dominated man to his harm." But their apologists -- very many clergymen -- want you to excuse a politician's immorality on the basis that God used King David even after he had committed adultery and had successfully schemed the violent death of the adulteress' (Bathsheba's) husband. Apparently those clergymen overlook a key difference between King David and those politicians whom the clergy extol. King David repented, but certain politicians guilty of lying and sexual immorality have not repented their sins against Jehovah. They do not know how to do so, and they have no disposition to want to learn how to do so. But the greater sin here belongs to the clergy who continue to tell God-condemned lies that directly assail the loving and holy character of our God, Jehovah.
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"Why Gaslighters Accuse You of Gaslighting
"Some gaslighters unconsciously project out of guilt or shame. In the case of narcissistic personality disorder, narcissists feel they are totally okay, and think that everyone else has a problem. This is called ego-syntonic behavior. It is very difficult to get a narcissistic gaslighter to get help through counseling, because they think you have the problem, not them. Projecting behavior can get to the point where a gaslighter delusionally believes that they are being persecuted by the victim, when in fact the opposite is true."
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