Peter Bradley

“By this I mean the fact that Hitler regarded the Darwinian criticism of the West’s antecedent religious traditions as decisive for their refutation and searched for a new, naturalistic theology guided by the root principle of natural selection, the immanent struggle of life against life. Hitler’s new theology then would be firmly rational, based on science, with an articulate theological doctrine—not running around in the woods naked hugging trees and building bonfires, as he disdainfully mocked German neopagans.”
― Paul R. Hinlicky, Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism

“Hence that morganatic bond between the forces of the left and the forces of the right (a director of a big steel company, the co-owner of a great department store, a figure high in the Republican organization, come quickly to mind) which made confusing common cause in exculpating Hiss by defaming Chambers.”
― Whittaker Chambers, Witness

“When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.     —Damon Knight, “Stranger Station” (1956)”
― Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits

“In so far as students have thought at all about the sources of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, however, almost all are unaware of Hitler’s modernism in matters of religion, nor of the fact, as we saw in Chapter 1, that the ranks of the Nazified German Christians were filled with theological modernists.139”
― Paul R. Hinlicky, Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism