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It was a "mistake," you see. Notice that they literally credit Hitler right up there on the billboard. Also, extra credit for mentioning Herbert fucking Hoover as their 2nd choice.
One for the "our country has lost its goddamned mind" files.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future, the billboard says and attributes the quote to Hitler.
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The 1935 quote was said in reference to the Hitler Youth program, which indoctrinated children in preparation for joining the Nazi Party.
Life Savers Ministries founder James Anderegg told the Ledger-Enquirer that it had been a mistake to use the Hitler quote, and that the billboard would be taken down on Tuesday.
We are pulling the billboard and certainly never intended to cause confusion. Herbert Hoover would have been a far better one to quote when he said, Children are our most valuable resource, Anderegg said. We are a childrens organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less.
Coincidentally, Anderegg is a German name meaning at the corner.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/03/alabama-bible-school-puts-hitler-quote-on-billboard-to-encourage-youth-indoctrination/
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)lame54
(35,141 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)It's interesting that this group thinks quoting Hitler is something worth putting on a billboard. All in all, we're just another brick in the wall.
Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Well, that's not exactly fair.
Hitler was certainly born and raised Roman Catholic, but professed no strong Christian beliefs as an adult, except as a means to an end.
His practices favored the occult and his writings favored what we would now call "Islamist" (a religion he favored because it was, in his twisted view, a religion of "warriors" and more fit for Aryans than a "Jewish-based" religion). In fact, Hitler spent long chapters bemoaning the turning away Muslim invaders at the Gates of Vienna, for this reason.
In short, his religion was opportunistic -- whatever fit his racist views, his need of the day, and who he needed to persuade.
And yes, I am Jewish and not a giant fan of the Roman Church, but we can't blame them for Hitler.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)That's what I would've gone with. Stalin may have even said it at one time or another, who knows.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)"Pie is the opiate of the masses. Here, have another slice while I tell you why the running dog lackeys of the counter-revolution must be eliminated." - Betty Crocker.
atreides1
(16,047 posts)...when they get caught!
phantom power
(25,966 posts)it suggests some spooky shit, regarding how people around there think, and what kids at that school are learning.
pinto
(106,886 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)I can't for the life of me think of when using an Adolph Hitler quote on a billboard could be seen as "honorable".
sarisataka
(18,222 posts)It was a different Adolph Hitler? You know the one that rescued orphans and puppies...
Initech
(99,915 posts)progressoid
(49,827 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)joanbarnes
(1,715 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)These billboards practically write themselves
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)That's crazy
Xithras
(16,191 posts)They have a Hitler quote followed by a Bible verse. I'd guess that they were aiming for something along the lines of "If you don't raise your child according to the Bible, someone like Hitler will be glad to train them for you."
That's just a guess, but it's the only thing I can come up with
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Thanks for that perspective!
Xithras
(16,191 posts)...but that's the only reasonably sane reason I could come up with to explain why someone could have done that. If I'm right, that's the worst message presentation I've ever seen.
Of course, the simple answer is still that they were a bunch of idiots who just didn't see any problem with quoting Hitler.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)kairos12
(12,817 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Everyone who sells advertising to the public has the right and pleasure of inspecting any ad presented to it, and is allowed to reject any and all ads that don't meet its standards. Billboard companies like this one have an extra responsibility in that they must verify the legality of an ad in its requested location - a beer company can't buy a board that can be seen from a school, for instance - so they check every ad buy pretty closely.
Why, pray tell, didn't someone at Lamar's standards department say something like, "while we respect your First Amendment freedoms, you must also respect ours and we will not have our company associated with the most evil man of the 20th Century. A lot of people have said the same basic thing as your Hitler quote, and until you choose one of them and submit it to us we're not putting this poster into production."?
And then there is the issue of letting your kid go to a Bible school run by people who quote Hitler in the first place.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Sometimes life is blatant.
packman
(16,296 posts)that someone, no matter how stupid, can put something up , then reference to Hitler and not think (?) , "You know, maybe I shouldn't do this." Then his supervisor saying, "Yah, sure that's OK".
When can we expect the firing to commence?
robbob
(3,514 posts)....doesn't mean he was wrong.
Hitler wanted to indoctrinate young minds to follow the Nazi philosophy which led Germany down the path of unspeakable evil which we all recognize now.
This minister would say THEY want to indoctrinate young minds in the "path of righteousness", etc. etc. in order to perform good deeds.
That being said, all in all a really really poor decision. And yes, I agree, what WERE they thinking?
<on edit> before I get jumped on as a Hitler supporter, let me clarify when I typed "doesn't mean he was wrong" it was in reference to the quote cited. Not in reference to genocide, warmongering and the millions upon millions of lives destroyed by his insane dream of an uber-race of supermen.
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)That's how the organization grows and is sustained over time. Hitler wanted young minds, for whatever Hitler wanted. McDonald's wants kids to eat their food so they can make more money down the line. The government wants to mold children into what the government needs them to be to pay taxes in the future, in order to sustain a functioning government, which is done through public schools.
The use of a Hitler quote, probably not the best idea. Whatever they may have come up with would've been the same idea though. Everyone goes after the kids. That's why parents want to protect kids from advertising. That way, the parent has more influence over their child. It's one of the more basic drives. Any parent, in any species, does it. The modern world has broken that down as much as it can, because corporations and governments need your kid.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Some never question what they've been taught and indeed follow exactly what they've been taught. Others start to wonder if there is a different way, start to question, and form their own ideas and opinions.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)nyabingi
(1,145 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Do they ever watch Nazi docs on Netflix? Sick as hell.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)The one used by the dreadful Michael and Debi Pearl to justify the abuse of children.
Funny that they never quote more of that chapter of Proverbs.
22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all
22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
DFW
(54,058 posts)FINALLY a group of so-called "Christians" are willing to publicly state from whom they get their inspiration. I can only wish their counterparts in the Senate and the House of Representatives would find the courage to admit it as well.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)There is something amiss in the brains of many Americans.
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)The "edge" of Hitler is wearing off in the minds of many. The levels of his depravity and hate are no longer shocking to many, and they simply don't see "the big deal" in using quotes by him or creating assignments asking "Is the Holocaust a Hoax?".
phantom power
(25,966 posts)You can even see it in some of the replies to this post. "Hey, he wasn't wrong." Which is true, of course, but I'm old enough to remember when nobody would want to associate themselves in any way with anything even once-removed from Hitler or the Nazis. And the few exceptions would never have dared in public.
So true, the world is beginning to forget. And also just in time for us to forget the economic lessons from the same period. Which puts us in position for the rise of a new hard-right nationalism.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)When Adolf Hitler quotes start showing up on billboards with an American flag in the background, you know we are way down the rabbit hole.
Hopefully this goes viral and opens some eyes.