Christian Socialism & Social Gospel of Bellamys http://rexcurry.net/christian-socialism-social-gospel.html
Christian Socialism & Jesus the Socialist ?!?! http://rexcurry.net/pledge-jesus-the-socialist.html
Christian Socialism & the Swastika in Germany http://rexcurry.net/swastikacross.html
Christian Socialism & the Socialist Cross http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter3a1d.html
Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Flag http://rexcurry.net/christian-socialism-Jesus-Camp-the-movie.html
The Religion of Solidarity http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-the-religion-of-solidarity.html
Republicans are the Society of Christian Socialists ? http://rexcurry.net/commentary/Bellamy.html
Socialist Crusades and Inquisitions http://rexcurry.net/inquisitions-heresy-socialism.html
Christian Socialism & the KKK, Ku Klux Klan http://rexcurry.net/kkk-ku-klux-klan-christian-socialism.html
Christus Rex, Rexist, Rexism, Leon Degrelle http://rexcurry.net/rexists-rexism-christus-rex-rexiste-leon-degrelle.html

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in AmeriKKKa today?

The white-hooded knights of the fiery cross have been the subject of a lot of research, some focusing on the influence of religion, socialism, and Christian Socialism in the group and in government. Much of the work expresses worries of a future filled with religious persecution and totalitarianism. Those worries have relevance to the enormous size and scope of government in the USA and its growing police state. http://rexcurry.net/kkk-ku-klux-klan-christian-socialism.html

The self-proclaimed Knights may be America's most notorious secret society. The 3K's began in 1866 to resist the U.S. federal government's growing police state, military occupation, martial law, carpetbaggers, and scalawags, after the war of northern aggression against southern independence. The group often opposed taxation and the nationalization of education because Lincoln’s party, the Republican Party, were profligate taxers and spenders, just as they are today. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard, disbanding the group three years later because of its increasingly violent actions against blacks. The group ended in the 1870's.

In 1915, a second distinct group using the same name was born at Stone Mountain, Georgia, inspired by the film The Birth of a Nation. The second Klavern group had a formal membership organization, with a national and state structure, that paid thousands of men to organize local chapters all over the country. Millions joined and, at its peak in the 1920s, the organization included about 15% of the nation's eligible population.

Members of the clan are often shown in old and new photographs performing a straight-arm salute to the flag of the United States or to the Christian Cross (or the "Fiery Cross").  The photographs are shown with the erroneous implication that K3 adopted the salute from the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP).

The raised-arm salute originated in the U.S. in the early Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag and it was the origin of the salute of the German National Socialists, as shown in recent discoveries by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). The USA used the straight arm salute to the national flag for three decades before German National Socialists started doing the same thing.  It is more accurate to say that the NSGWP was influenced by socialists in the U.S. and within the hooded group.

When the leader of German National Socialism died he possessed at his bedside rows of books by his favorite author, Karl May, a German who was famous for writing about the USA. The NSGWP leader even emulated May's signature.  Karl May wrote many books including a book about the K3s. That book is almost unknown in the USA today. See a photograph of it at http://rexcurry.net/kkk-ku-klux-klan-karl-may.jpg

The straight-arm salute was created (1892) by Francis Bellamy, a minister who lost his position because he used the pulpit to push what he called "Christian Socialism" in sermons on themes like "Jesus the Socialist." http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

Francis was cousin and cohort to Edward Bellamy, author of "Looking Backward" an international bestseller that was known as the Bible of National Socialism. Edward also authored "The Religion of Solidarity" and other articles and books with similar ideas.

They called their dogma "Military Socialism" because they admired the military and wanted all of society to emulate the military system to create an army of God as an industrial army.

Both Bellamys worked together to promote Christian Socialism and Military Socialism and they wanted the government to take over all schools to spread their dogma and create their Army of the Lord. It was consistent with the insertion of "Under God" in the Pledge by the Knights of Columbus.

When the government granted their wish, the government's schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy.  Coupled with the stiff-arm salute, government in the USA provided a horrid example to German National Socialists for three decades before the NSGWP began.  The 3K's are sometimes called a terrorist group but, in light of the above, is the government a terrorist group also?

The Bellamys and the clan supported government schools for the same reason. They were on a crusade for conformity. They called it "Americanism" or "Hooded Americanism." They were bigoted, racist, sexist, narrow-minded and they obsessed about immigrants and people of other religions.  They wanted to weed out individuality and differences and they wanted to make everyone the same.

People were persecuted for refusing to give the straight-arm salute to the national flag. That persecution occurred in the USA (to the stars and stripes) and in Germany (to the swastika flag) at the same time, although it started in the USA first. Today, most people in the USA were educated in government schools (socialist schools), so they are ignorant of the fact that it was happening in both Germany and the USA.

Children of various races and backgrounds attended government schools that were segregated by law and they were forced to perform the straight-arm salute in robotic chanting every morning at the ring of a government bell (just as it is done today but with a different gesture).

Many people marveled at Adolf Hilter's "hypnotic" powers of propaganda, as if he was the first of his kind as head of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Adolf Hitler's propaganda had already been pioneered by Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and American socialists. Francis Bellamy's original Columbus Day program was a blueprint of nationwide propaganda for socialism in government schools. They put government flags over schools, in classrooms and everywhere.

Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy even put flags (and chanting to flags) in churches in another eerie parallel followed later by Adolf Hitler.

Many people considered the raised-arm salute to the national flag to be sacrilegious worship of government and socialism. Religious people had good reasons to consider the pledge / salute to be sacrilegious, in that Germans used the ritual toward their flag, the swastika flag, which the Germans did not call a swastika flag. Germans called their symbol a Hakenkreuz, not a swastika. Hakenkreuz means "hooked cross."

Most people do not know that a cross was worshiped as the notorious symbol of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. It is one of the biggest cover-ups in history. The hooked cross became a symbol of Christian Socialism.

In the USA the hooked cross was a common symbol and was referred to as a cross (armed cross, twisted cross, lucky cross, crooked cross, hooked cross) before "swastika" became dominant. The eventual dominance of "swastika" occurred in part to distance the cross from German Christian Socialism, by slandering a foreign symbol ("Swastika" is Sanskrit, not German).

Although the swastika was an ancient symbol, the noted cryptographer and symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets") discovered that it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists to represent "S" letters for their "socialism."  With a 45 degree turn of his Hakenkreuz, and by pointing new uses clockwise, the leader of German National Socialists highlighted the "S" shapes to combine the cross with collectivism, merge church and state, mesh religion and socialism, and mandate the worship of government. He altered his own signature to use the same symbolism and similar alphabetic symbolism still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html

Support for Dr. Curry's work comes from other authors who believe the Holocaust under the National Socialist German Workers Party was an inquisition (including religious persecution) undertaken by the leader of German National Socialism under his religious and racial beliefs.

The Bellamy book "Looking Backward" was so popular that it was translated into every major language, including German, Russian, and Chinese.  It immediately inspired a supportive political movement with “Nationalism Clubs” worldwide.


The Bellamy dogma was popular in the U.S. and worldwide, influencing people living in the countries of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 65 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC); 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP). Their satanic leaders would not separate church and state, they combined religion with socialism, and they worshipped government. In 1939 the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics joined as allies to invade Poland in a pact to divide up Europe. After WWII, Stalin and Mao went on to kill even more people. http://rexcurry.net/wholecaust-museum.html

It all shows how close the USA came (and is still coming) to the socialist Wholecaust. Many Americans are sad examples of how places like that come into existence, grow so large, last so long, and kill so many.  

Historians make their work relevant to current events. Such stories are relevant to the fact that the present government in the USA is anti libertarian and is out-socializing the previous administration by more than double and growing (in social spending ALONE). Today, the government constantly increases the nationalization of education, and government involvement at all levels. The dogma of socialism and self-sacrifice is still growing all over the world.

Publicity stunt or not, I have deeper questions about the common practice of high-ranking politicians visiting disaster scenes.  What does it say about Americans that we draw comfort from visits of a Governor or a President?  Are we so dependent upon the state that we can't get our lives back to normal unless government is involved?  Is our vision of heads of states so distorted that we perceive them to be demigods whose touch or even presence strengthens our powers and enriches our lives?  It's unsettling to witness the cult of personality that surrounds nearly all politicians above the level of sewer-board members.                   -- Donald J. Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030

The phrase "under God," though not in the original Pledge, was in the original Pledge program. The phrase was used by Bellamy in the accompanying article promoting his totalitarian society of "Christian socialism." It was a discovery by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). The first website to publish Francis Bellamy's "Address for Columbus Day" (1892) entitled "The Meaning of the Four Centuries" which accompanied the first publication of Bellamy's original Pledge of Allegiance to the flag in the "Youth's Companion" magazine was RexCurry.net at http://rexcurry.net/pledgespeech.html When Bellamy wrote "liberty and justice for all" he meant the liberty to have government schools impose prayer and Bible reading and worship (which they did), and the justice of Christian Socialism that was Bellamy's dogma. Francis was a leader in the Society of Christian Socialists and that is the dogma that schools brainwashed into children as he advocated the government takeover of all schools.  http://rexcurry.net/francis%20bellamy.jpg When Bellamy said later that his Pledge "....began as an intensive communing with salient points of our national history, from the Declaration of Independence onwards; with the makings of the Constitution...with the meaning of the Civil War; with the aspiration of the people..." he meant that his Christian Socialism dogma was one of the "salient points of our national history" and "the aspirations of the people." Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy even put flags (and chanting to flags) in churches in another eerie parallel followed later by Adolf Hitler. All of the above occurred during a time when (and this was known by Bellamy) government schools imposed particular forms of daily group-prayer and Bible-reading, soon to be supplemented by Bellamy's proposal for mechanical chanting to the flag.  Francis Bellamy is not known to have ever objected to such practices. An objection would not have been in consistent with his personal beliefs, and hi general attitude about government schools and indoctrination. http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-the-religion-of-solidarity.html At that time, government schools also imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy. Francis Bellamy is not known to have objected to those practices either. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-jesus-the-socialist.html

With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military  by Michael L. Weinstein Military Socialism or Christian Socialism or both?  With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military is a great book by Michael L. Weinstein. One criticism is that he uses the F-word to label the political dogma and the behavior of religious oppressors in the military, and in describing how they use patriotism, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Star Spangled Banner in their misdeeds. He seems to be unaware of the S-word: Christian Socialism and Military Socialism. The Pledge of Allegiance was written (1892) by Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed Christian Socialist, who touted Military Socialism. Francis Bellamy did not use the other "ism" (the F-word) as a self-description. Francis used the S-word (socialism) as a self-description. The book could use some updating with more historical information about the topic addressed. For example, the Pledge was the origin of the stiff-arm salute that was adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party. An early salute for the Pledge of Allegiance was the straight-arm salute. The Pledge began with a military salute that was then extended out toward the flag. In practice the second gesture was performed palm down. Francis Bellamy was the author of the Pledge (1892) and cousin to Edward Bellamy, author of an international bestseller that launched the nationalism movement. Edward's book was translated into every major language, including German. Francis and Edward were both self-proclaimed socialists in the Nationalism movement and they promoted military socialism. They wanted government to take over all schools and impose robotic chanting to flags. When the government granted their wish, government schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy. That behavior even outlasted German National Socialism. The Pledge's early right-arm salute was not an ancient Roman salute, and the 'ancient Roman salute' myth came from the Pledge. In addition to the notorious salute, American socialists (e.g. Edward Bellamy teamed with the Theosophical Society) also bear some blame for the notorious symbol usd by the National Socialist German Workers Party on its flag. While Edward and the Theosophical Society worked together, the same symbol was used by the Society. It was used as alphabetical symbolism for socialism, and adopted later by German socialists as their flag symbol. Although an ancient symbol, it was altered for use as overlapping S-letters for 'socialism.' It was deliberately turned 45 degrees counter clockwise and always oriented in the S-direction. Similar alphabetic symbolism is still visible as Volkswagen logos. People were persecuted for refusing to perform robotic chanting to the national flag at the same time in the USA and Germany (to the American flag, and to the German symbol flag). Most of the above are modern discoveries (do a web search for "stop the pledge") by a different writer, Dr. Rex Curry (America's leading authority on the Pledge of Allegiance, and the author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").

Frightening information and images about the history of the Pledge of Allegiance is at http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html Fascinating information about symbolism see http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html

April 26, 1995 at Supreme Court oral arguments. Contrary to his customary silence on the bench, Justice Clarence Thomas asked a series of questions in the case of Capitol Square Review & Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995). The case was became a landmark in the Court’s establishment-clause jurisprudence. Justice Thomas’ questions took an entirely different path, noting that the "cross" displayed on public property that had raised the topic of "separation of church and state" was actually the flaming symbol of the Ku Klux Klan, and not a religious symbol at all. He pursued this line of questioning in his own short concurring opinion, noting "that the Klan had a primarily nonreligious purpose in erecting the cross." "The Klan simply has appropriated one of the most sacred of religious symbols as a symbol of hate," he continued. For Justice Thomas, this suggested "that [the] case may not have truly involved the Establishment Clause" at all. Thomas opined that the lower courts, and ultimately the Supreme Court, had treated a Ku Klux Klan case as a religious establishment-clause case. Justice Thomas was not willing to let the point go unremarked.

THE KKK IS SCARY AND IT MAKES HALLOWEEN COSTUMES EASY http://rexcurry.net/halloween.html

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The leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP) was believed to be of Christian faith by many people. He was influenced by the Christian Social movement and its founder Karl Lueger, after Luerger's rise to power in Vienna in 1897. Vienna mayor Karl Lueger was credited in 'Mein Kampf' as a role model and inspirational figure to the leader of the NSGWP. The book Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna : Christian Socialism in Power, 1897-1918 is by John W. Boyer and he traces the movement's evolution from a dissident political group of disparate ward politicians, through its maturation into the largest single party in the Austrian parliament by 1907, to its major role in Imperial politics during the First World War.

In the historic film "Triumph of the Will," the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party states: "The Party will be like a religious order."

The Protestant Reich Church was formed by under the National Socialist German Worker's Party in 1933, by merging 29 regional churches into one church. The founding of the church was the result of work by the German Christian Socialists.

During the war, Alfred Rosenberg drew up a thirty-point program for a new "National Reich Church." One point declared that the "Hakenkreuz" (hooked cross or swastika) would be the type of cross used in the Church.

In his book The Holy Reich (NSGWP Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945) Richard Steigmann-Gall argues persuasively that the the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP) did not reject Christianity.

Many people marveled at Adolf Hilter's "hypnotic" powers of propaganda, as if he was the first of his kind as head of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Adolf Hitler's propaganda had already been pioneered by Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and American socialists. Francis Bellamy's original Columbus Day program was a blueprint of nationwide propaganda for socialism in government schools. They put government flags over schools, in classrooms and everywhere. They even put flags (and chanting to flags) in churches in another eerie parallel followed later by socialists in Germany.

In addressing the rabid socialism of the NSGWP in The Holy Reich, Steigmann-Gall writes about Joseph Goebbels and Goebbels' novel "Michael" (1923): http://rexcurry.net/swastika-nazi-sozi-goebbels.html

Joseph Goebbels, for whom the “socialism” in National Socialism was of particular importance, was a notable example in this regard.

Sacrifice is intrinsic to socialism. 

Goebbels’ reference to “Christ Socialists” (Christussozialisten) as opposed to “Christian Socialists” (Christliche Sozialisten) emphasizes the nearly evangelical nature of the struggle: An unadulterated return to Christ’s teachings, free of the temporal church, is the only way to German salvation. “The modern man is intrinsically a seeker of God, perhaps a Christman.... We modern Germans are something like Christ Socialists.”

Even in private, without the requirements of political expediency that otherwise might have compelled him to cynical posturing, Goebbels similarly wrote: “Speaking does not help. Action! Be socialists of action. There is too little of that. Be true Christians!”’ This emphasis on an active morality, a “practical” Christianity, would be a continuous theme for Goebbels well into the Third Reich.

Goebbels seriously believed his own disturbing statement — there is no evidence that he ever said anything different in private when he would have had the freedom to reveal his "genuine" feelings, if they differed from his public comments. Instead, his private statements and his public statements were consistent.

The following is about the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party:

[I]n a private meeting on NSGWP economics with his inner circle, held in 1930, [The NSGWP leader] elaborated his ideas on “real” socialism once again, but now with explicit reference to Christ: “It is such a far-reaching and complete conversion that the adult is no longer capable of it. Only youth can be converted, newly aligned and adjusted to the socialist sense of obligation toward the community. For almost two thousand years the Gospel of Christ has been preached, for two thousand years the sense of community has been taught. . . . But today, at the end of these two thousand years, economic liberalism flourishes as never before!” ...

For [the NSGWP leader], the answer to the current state of affairs lay in a resurrection of Christ’s ideas: “As Christ proclaimed ‘love one another’, so our call — ‘peoples’ community’, ‘public need before private greed’, ‘communally-minded social consciousness’ — rings out through the German fatherland! This call will echo throughout the world!” Without reference to a particular variety, “positive” or otherwise, [the NSGWP leader] insists that Christianity is at the center of [National Socialist German Workers' Party] social thought. As with Buch and Goebbels, [the NSGWP leader] regards the teachings of Christ as direct inspiration for the “German” socialism advanced by the party.

 

Many Socialists and Christians in modern America may have difficulty understanding how their ideas were used in the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The New Testament describes the early Christian communities as if they were socialist:

All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.  (Acts 2:44-45)

It is a line that long pre-dated Marx’s notorious recipe for death: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

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THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT, CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM AND THE CROSS

The hooked cross became a symbol of Christian Socialism under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

It is frightening how far the USA joined in the depravity. The major Supreme Court cases about the pledge involved religious children in government schools who were being forced to robotically chant the pledge to the national flag with the straight-arm salute. Those cases began in the 1930's but did not reach decision until 1940 & 1943. At first the children were unsuccessful in the USA.  Socialists persecuted the children, expelled them from the socialist schools, arrested their parents, seized children from parents on allegations of "unfit parenting," and many children had to flee and use the many better alternatives, including home-schooling and their own church schools (but they and their schools were often persecuted by socialists there also).

At the height of National Socialism abroad, the USA's government deliberately fell farther into the same abyss with national numbering of humans imposed in 1935 with the social security system. The federal government was growing massively and attempting to nationalize the economy in many ways. The US Supreme Court struck down much of the new legislation as unconstitutional until justices were pressured by the "switch in time that socialized nine."

It is sad to note that during the same time period in the USA, religious people who were fleeing the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSGWP) were turned away from the USA, and knowingly sent to suffering and death.  That happened because of socialists who support restrictions on immigration and on every American’s right to hire, to do business, and to freely associate. It was similar to today.  Socialists in the USA still support restrictions on immigration and they reject the right of every American in living with, marrying, renting to, selling to, buying from, hiring (as housekeeper, lawn man, doctor, nanny, teacher etc) any person with whom that American wishes to associate. Little has changed.

The USA still follows similar anti libertarian policies promoted by the Bellamys. Many socialist Bellamy policies caused the USA’s big, expensive and oppressive government and its growing police-state. The Bellamys promoted the U.S. disaster of old prohibition, as well as modern prohibition.  It caused the Great Socialist Depression (from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act 1930 etc) that persisted and even lasted through U.S. involvement in WWII. Socialism's quest for omniscience was enlarged with social security numbers in 1935 to track and tax everyone, as the USA followed the path of German National Socialists at the height of their power. The federal government grew massively and nationalized the economy in many ways.

The Pledge still exists along with laws mandating that teachers lead the robotic pledge chanting every day for twelve years of each child’s life (though the salute was altered). The government still owns and operates schools. The U.S. practice of imposing segregation by law in government schools and teaching racism as official policy outlasted the National Socialist German Workers' Party by over 15 years. After segregation in government's schools ended, the Bellamy legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities. Those schools still exist.  Infants are given social security numbers (socialist slave numbers) that track and tax them for life.  Government schools demand the numbers for enrollment.

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The Bellamys were bigots and racists and they obsessed about immigrants coming into the USA.  They wanted to impose a heavy-handed method of brain-washing immigrants and all Americans into accepting their socialist dogma.  Because of the Bellamys, the USA has a long history of turning immigrants away from being good Americans and independent capitalists, and in turning immigrants into socialists who are dependent on government.

The Bellamys promoted a government takeover of schools, and when the government granted their wish, the government schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy. 

It is also true that German National Socialists did not refer to themselves with the hackneyed shorthand n-word, nor the f-word, and there is no such use in Mein Kampf nor in Triumph of the Will.  Modern writers, on the other hand, cover-up the truth and never use the actual name of the horrid Party, and deceitfully use the shorthand terms, exclusively to perpetuate widespread ignorance, and that is why those terms are trite.

The Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) was an ancient religious symbol in Germany, related to the un-hooked cross and to the Prussian-German Iron cross and to other crosses.

Oppose the KKK and National Socialism and its socialist legacies that exist in today's government.    For more information regarding those policies in the USA see http://rexcurry.net/police-state.html