A newly elected state senator in Texas said last week that Christians in the US are treated the way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany.
Charles Perry made the comparison after being sworn in on Tuesday following his victory earlier this month in a special election to replace a retiring state senator, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.
In his inaugural speech, Perry said a recent trip to a concentration camp in Germany made him draw a comparison between what he believes are efforts by the government to pass laws against religion and the killing of Jews during the Holocaust.
“There were 10,000 people that were paraded into a medical office [at the concentration camp in Germany] under the guise of a physical. As they stood with their back against the wall, they were executed with a bullet through the throat. Before they left, 10,000 people met their fate that way,” Perry said.
“Is it not the same than when our government continues to perpetuate laws that lead citizens away from God? The only difference is that the fraud of the Germans was more immediate and whereas the fraud of today’s government will not be exposed until the final days and will have eternal-lasting effects.”
Is it not the same? No it is not the same. For instance, Christians are not being paraded into a medical office and executed with a bullet through the throat. That isn’t happening here. Nothing at all like it is happening here.
Maybe Perry think he has that covered with the bit about “The only difference is that the fraud of the Germans was more immediate.” I suppose he could have meant that shooting people through the throat is immediate, while passing laws that theocrats think are incompatible with friendship with God is less immediate. I would dispute him by saying that “immediate” and “less immediate” are not the right terms to cover that difference. They don’t get at the extent or seriousness of the difference.
Perry said in his speech that while he’ll work to address the state’s financial needs by prioritizing state funding and balancing the budget without raising taxes, his biggest challenge will be the “spiritual battle for the spirit of this nation and the soul of its people.”
Thus neatly exemplifying one big reason theocrats do not make good state senators – they don’t even know what their fucking job is, and instead want to do a completely different and inappropriate job.
I do not see political parties in the US using their paramilitary forces in order to keep members of rival parties from entering government buildings.
Why is it that people who like to compare themselves to Jews in Nazi Germany do not know what actually happened. I know, I already answered my question, if thy knew history, they would never make these comparisons.
This is why Mexico doesn’t want the territory back.
Considering that virtually ALL of our country’s leaders are professing Christians and that there remains a Christian majority, he’s chock full of nuts.
First they came for the theocrats, and I said nothing, for I was not a — hey wait, they didn’t come for the theocrats at all. They’re winning elections!
Never mind.
Janine,
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
Dear Senator Perry,
If present-day American Christians are being treated like 1930s German Jews were, then how did your election to the Texas Senate go unchallenged by any government? Why haven’t you been rounded up by the Geheime Staatspolizei and shipped to a camp? The point that the US is not a fundamentalist Christian theocracy is in no way similar to the status of Jews in Nazi Germany.
And he now will represent ME in Austin. That is fucking disgusting. I voted against him twice, but to my own shame I didn’t campaign against him. Maybe someday I will learn.
I’m entirely willing to cede the spiritual battle for the spirit of the nation if it means Perry will lay off with the legal battles to deny people basic human rights. I think he’s lying, though, and has no intention of pursuing a spiritual battle for the spirit of the nation, but instead wants to legislate superficial adherence to practices of his religion.