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The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:08 pm
by Skjellyfetti
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.
Below the Hitler quote was a Bible verse which said, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
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."
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.
Life-Savers Ministries was founded in 1996 in Opelika, Alabama and provides Biblically-based activities for children coming from at-risk areas, according to their website.
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Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:49 pm
by OL FU
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.
That might be the understatement of the year
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:52 pm
by CID1990
OL FU wrote: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.
That might be the understatement of the year
Now we know where the person who came up with the "Winning The Future" meme for the White House ended up.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:07 pm
by 89Hen
This has to be from The Onion.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:14 pm
by SDHornet
Wow...just wow.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:24 pm
by CID1990
89Hen wrote:This has to be from The Onion.
Close-
huffpo
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:38 pm
by Chizzang
CID1990 wrote:89Hen wrote:This has to be from The Onion.
Close-
huffpo
So its false is what you're saying..?
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:54 pm
by Ivytalk
JellyBelly, I have to ask you: do you have any pride in being a son of the South? Or are you ashamed of your heritage?
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:59 pm
by Ibanez
Ivytalk wrote:JellyBelly, I have to ask you: do you have any pride in being a son of the South? Or are you ashamed of your heritage?
Good questions. I take pride in being from the South. Every state in the Union has it's blemishes and imperfections.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:40 pm
by JohnStOnge
Yes it was probably a poor decision but it's pretty obvious that what they were doing was using a quote from a totalitarian to warn about an evolution towards government control of children.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:46 pm
by BlueHen86
JohnStOnge wrote:Yes it was probably a poor decision but it's pretty obvious that what they were doing was using a quote from a totalitarian to warn about an evolution towards government control of children.
Doesn't matter. All people will see is the name Adolf Hitler.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:50 pm
by Ibanez
JohnStOnge wrote:Yes it was probably a poor decision but it's pretty obvious that what they were doing was using a quote from a totalitarian to warn about an evolution towards government control of children.
Probably? It was. Invoking Nazis for a good cause rarely is a good decision.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 5:27 am
by Skjellyfetti
Ivytalk wrote:JellyBelly, I have to ask you: do you have any pride in being a son of the South? Or are you ashamed of your heritage?
Love the South and take pride in it.
But, also acknowledge the flaws and errors of the region.
Great website that has a similar view of the South as I do. Good essay on their "about us" section:
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And, in Patterson Hood's words: "Duality of the southern thing"
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Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:54 am
by LeadBolt
Dick Millstone Nixon used to quote Hitler on a fairly regular basis in his speeches.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 9:45 am
by Ibanez
LeadBolt wrote:Dick Millstone Nixon used to quote Hitler on a fairly regular basis in his speeches.
Any relation to Richard Milhouse Nixon?
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:11 am
by FCS PATRIOTS
I don't see what the big deal is.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:40 am
by CID1990
Chizzang wrote:CID1990 wrote:
Close-
huffpo
So its false is what you're saying..?
NO, if I was implying that, I would have said
"Exactly the same thing..... huffpo"
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:11 pm
by LeadBolt
Ibanez wrote:LeadBolt wrote:Dick Millstone Nixon used to quote Hitler on a fairly regular basis in his speeches.
Any relation to Richard Milhouse Nixon?
Millstone was Milhouse's alter ego who drug the country down engineering his second election.
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:52 am
by mrklean
I'm a proud Southener, however, some of my people are still fighting the Civil War
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:46 am
by Ibanez
mrklean wrote:I'm a proud Southener, however, some of my people are still fighting the Civil War
Who are your people?
Re: The South + religion + Hitler = LOL
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:43 am
by Skjellyfetti
Southerners