Alabama-based Life-Savers Ministries (LSM) has admitted that it was probably a poor decision to select a quote from Adolf Hitler for use on a billboard supporting children’s education, reports Raw Story. The large sign depicted a diverse group of smiling kids and incongruously declared, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future,” attributing the quote to Hitler. Hitler said the phrase in 1935 during a speech at the Reichsparteitag in order to encourage young people to join the Hitler Youth.
It’s easy- sometimes too easy- to play the “Hitler/Christianity” card. Hitler may have used Christianity to justify his methods and means, but he was as much a Christian as I am a Chechnyan guerilla. Using faith to justify unspeakable horror and genocide only proves one is a borderline madman and craven beyond belief.
What makes the “Hitler/Christianity” comparison entertaining is when it’s raised by a Christian organization. In the case of Light Saber Life-Saver Ministries, they put up a billboard using a quote from Adolf Hitler to…well, I have no idea what they were trying to do. LSM did succeed in demonstrating its intolerance and theological bankruptcy, though. Nice work, Ace.
Sounds like someone needs a lesson in public relations, eh?
James Anderegg, founder of LSM, told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that he was taking down the sign and “certainly never intended to cause confusion.” He added, “Herbert Hoover would have been a far better one to quote when he said, ‘Children are our most valuable resource.’ We are a children’s organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less.”
Gee…ya think?? “[C]ertainly never intended to cause confusion.” What in the world did Anderegg think using an Adolf Hitler quote on a billboard would do? Bring people of all creeds and colors together to sing “Kum Ba Yah??” The man’s responsible for murdering six million Jews…and you’re holding him up as quote worthy?
And how does “honorable intentions” justify using Hitler’s words in ANY shape, manner, OR form??
Curiously the board did not include the name of Life-Savers Ministries, leading some Alabama residents to wonder about its origin. Lamar Advertising, the owners of the billboard, told the Ledger-Enquirer that it had been rented out by Life-Savers.
It’s almost as if Anderegg was trying to drum up some cheap attention, the philosophy being that any publicity is good publicity…because at least you’ve made people notice you.
Mission Accomplished.
And people wonder why I don’t believe in God….
