On his post about the Waynesville Church pastor who basically kicked out Kerry voters, Mohler draws on the Church in Nazi Germany as an example of allowing nationalistic persuasions to align themselves “theologically” with the Nazis. Of course, Mohler is clueless about how that seems to better fit the Religious Right’s enthusuiastic support of Bush’s Iraq debacle. I’ll ahve more to say on this later, but I wanted to point it out:

Crosswalk.com – Albert Mohler’s Weblog

Honesty compels me to state that I could foresee a political context in which such a decision, made in extremis, could well be both justifiable and necessary. The church has faced this before. In the context of Nazi Germany, it was an unavoidable issue. Writing to Christians in France, Karl Barth lamented the sin of the German Christians who allowed the Nazi Party to assume power (through democratic elections, we should be reminded). Looking back to the political passivity of the German church, Barth reflected: “At the time and in Germany it implied a retreat of Christianity from responsibility in ecclesiastical and political spheres to the inner sphere of a religious attitude which, in order to maintain itself, no longer concerned itself with, or at least was not willing to fight and suffer for, the right form of the Church, let alone that of the State.”

The utter blindness required to call upon this example and “omit” the issue of war in our country, is amazingly clueless.