World War II A Religious War

This article is from the 1944 edition of the Converted Catholic Magazine of which former Roman Catholic priest, Leo Herbert Lehmann (also known as L.H. Lehmann) is the editor. It was first put online in PDF format by the LutheranLibrary.org.

How many people today know the real motivation behind Hitler and the Nazis? I sure didn’t. That’s why I’m sharing this. I consider knowledge of history vital in order to understand better current events.

The Vatican was involved not only in World War II, but also in World War I, the Vietnam war, the American Civil war, the Thirty Years war, and probably many more. In one of my next articles, I hope to come up with documentation from authoritative sources that prove it. I already have documentation on this site about the Vatican’s responsibility for causing the American Civil War from none other than Abraham Lincoln himself!

IT HAS LONG been our contention that this disastrous war (World War II) is rooted in the religious conflict existing between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism since the Reformation. Mr. H. G. Wells, in his recent book, Crux Ansata, confirms this by pointing out that the Nazi-Fascist conspiracy was a part of the Jesuit plan of Counter-Reformation, the aim of which has been to restore the condition of things in religion and government that existed in pre-Reformation times. A moment’s consideration of the aims of the Axis dictators makes this clear: one-man rule of the State, abolition of freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion, together with reunion of the authoritarian state with only one authoritarian Church.

Americans did not see the war in this light until recently, and now that Fascism has raised its ugly head on this side of the Atlantic in Argentina, it is becoming more apparent to them that the fight is between two cultural and religious traditions — one Latin and Catholic, the other British-American and Protestant. The N. Y. Times of last October 6 (1943), brought this out in a dispatch from Mexico City concerning the pressure brought by Argentina to force Brazil into a “Latin-American bloc” to oppose United States Protestant influence in all of South America. Quoting Samuel Wainer, former editor of the Rio de Janeiro weekly newspaper Diretrizes, the dispatch reported that the pressure of Argentina on Brazilian military leaders was being applied to secure for Latin American countries “the continuity of Spanish and Portuguese cultural and religious traditions as opposed to United States Protestant Materialism.”

Here we have very simply and clearly expressed the root cause of the head-on clash between Fascism and Democracy in the whole world today. It is an open fight between the forces that would restore church-controlled, Inquisition government and religion, and those that are ready to suffer and die again to keep open the way of decency and progress for mankind initiated by the Protestant Reformation four centuries ago.