Oslo and Profanity for Profane Times

Jim O’Neill:

Media Lie: Hitler was a Christian fundamentalist. This statement is sometimes coupled with the accusation that Hitler’s radical Christianity was the direct cause of the Holocaust.

The Truth: Hitler despised Christianity. The only religion that Hitler had any respect for was Islam, whose totalitarian methods and messages he admired.

Media Lie: Following the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978, the media implied that Reverend Jim Jones was a right-wing Christian wacko, who used religion as a means to trap people inside his insane “Death Cult” agenda. Talk of his radical Marxism was almost uniformly swept under the rug.

The Truth: Jim Jones was a Far Left radical, who used Christianity as a front for his Marxist agenda. One of his last acts was to send money to (then) communist Russia. He was as left-wing as they get. The Far Left and death fit together like a knife and sheath—check out some history (honest history).

Media Lie: Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was a Far Right Christian militia nut.

The Truth: Timothy McVeigh was a Far Left agnostic with ties to radical Islam (via Terry Nichols) and neo-Nazism. As faithful readers well know, I have pointed out the reasons why Fascism (and its subset Nazism) is a Far Left collectivist doctrine numerous times. That the media and clueless liberals continue to call the Nazis “right-wing” is bad enough, but that patriotic conservatives continue to do so is beyond the pale. Here’s a handy mnemonic that might help: “Nazis are left-wing, Nazis are left-wing—‘Socialist Workers Party,’ hello?—Nazis are left-wing.”

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