These are not my words, but they are powerful.  They provide a good lesson that is so true--and sobering.  This piece is rather long, but very worth the time it takes to read.

February 12, 2010 by Sharon Sebastion, Bear Essentials contributor.

Though Marxism seeks to rid society of God, Hitler allowed religions.  Early in his political career, he praised Catholicism.  Initially, he also was favorably inclined towards Christianity.  In time as he garnered power, Hitler came to find Christianity particularly troublesome when Christian pastors spoke out against his systematic annihilation of Germany's Jews.  Hitler set out to wash the veneer of Christian beliefs from German society.

Mid-1800, the false scientific justification to deny God as Creator started with a man named Charles Darwin.  Darwin's theory of evolution divided humans into superior and inferior status.  Darwin, in his own writings, labeled people of color, in particular black people, as sub-par and sub-human.  The appeal of such a theory held great appeal to men who both denied the existence of God and sought superiority over fellow humans.  Among them was Karl Marx, the father of Communism...Equally grateful to Darwin were mass murderers Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler.  All wrote of Darwin's influence on them and their policies to oppress masses of people.

In time... [Hitler] sought a new religion that would spring from the Nazi party and pagan Swastika as its symbol to replace the Cross in Germany's New World Order.  In time, Hitler allowed comment that:  "You can be German or you can be a Christian, but you can't be both".  Hitler declared, "Evolution was the natural order of things," allowing him to debase Jewish people, homosexuals and the disabled to a lower evolutionary scale.  He allowed that "National Socialism and Christianity cannot co-exist together".  Historians record that Hitler's religious views vacillated as his power grew until it became difficult to discern if the god Hitler actually worshipped was himself.

Hitler created the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) and surrounded himself with men who were atheists or occultists who shared the desire to replace Christianity with a religion that did not require conscience...Himmler stated a preference for the faith of anti-Semitic Muslims who were willing to die for the German cause to attain a reward in their heaven...Hitler made his memoir, Mein Kampf, the official bible of Nazism.

Historians reveal that, in time, power turned [Hitler] inward to self-worship that perpetuated a growing alienation resulting in the imprisonment and death of Christians.  Nazi Germany stands as a warning to all societies that look the other way or tolerate a denunciation or assault on Christianity and Judaism by their political leaders.

Karl Marx described Socialism and Marxisn as interchangeable.  Socialism merely greases the skids from Capitalism into Marxism.  Marxism and Fascism need to eliminate God so that conscience is muted and the government can become god in people's lives.  Socialism strips people of initiative, innovation and self-reliance and encourages a dependence on government, "the new god", from cradle to grave.  Americans are highly resistant to becoming wards of the state.  The danger lies with a plethora of laws being passed that are currently legislating values and principles of faith out of American life.  Laws in process in Congress carry fines and penalties to force all people to fore go personal and religious liberties.  Marxism, Socialism, and Fascism, counter America's founding faith.  History begs that Americans take heed if America is to remain one nation under God with liberty and justice for all."

This last paragraph is particularily chilling in terms of what has been happening over the past two weeks with the Obama administration mandating that religious organizations provide contraception and abortion coverage in their health care insurance policies. The issue is really about much more than whether or not a birth control pill is provided. Those very words about eliminating conscience have been spoken by those close to President Obama.  He--and other elected officials--ARE trying to legislate faith and conscience out of American life.  We need to learn from history, take action, and not allow history to repeat itself lest we someday wake up and find ourselves in a society reminiscent of World War II Germany.  If we don't open our eyes for ourselves, lets at least do it for our children.