EUROPEAN HISTORY

Years ago, I became fascinated with the 1930’s German Church War and issues surrounding it – the decline of Christianity in Germany, euthanasia, genocide, and  World War II. Ironically, very little is known of the German Church War today; but the more I studied it, the more I became convinced that today’s world is intricately interwoven with that world. I felt compelled to write a history revealing those connections; a history I have titled “War Comes to God’s House“. And as I studied those issues, I was drawn back farther and farther into history, because they all had antecedents in historical events and ideas. So as I wrote, War Comes became more and more a series of essays on historical events and religious and philosophical movements. You can proceed directly to War Comes (linked on the slider and below) and enjoy the whole panorama in its context, or you can visit the series of essays on various subjects I have extracted and archived on this page. The major themes of War Comes, the Church War and euthanasia program are too lengthy and complex for extraction into short essays, so you must visit the main document to study them. A slide show on the War Comes website gives brief introductions to some of those subjects.

I have only begun the process of extracting topical essays (and in a rather random fashion) so check back again for updates.

Thanks for visiting.

WHAT HAPPENED IN POST-WWI GERMANY TO SET THE STAGE FOR HITLER AND THE NAZIS?

WAR IN BETWEEN THE WARS: THE CONTINUING VIOLENT AFTERMATH OF WWI

WHY DID STALIN REJECT DARWINIAN EVOLUTION?

NAZISM: RIGHT OR LEFT?

ESSAY ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JEAN-JAQUES ROUSSEAU TO THE MODERN WORLD – THE BAD AND THE WORSER

THE LIFE AND LIES OF “GERMAN DARWIN” ERNST HAECKEL; A MAJOR FORCE IN THE MAKING OF SOCIAL DARWINISM.

ESSAY ON THE CRUSADES AND THE LONG WAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTENDOM

A BRIEF ESSAY ON THE RISE OF THE VICTORIAN ERA AND NATURAL THEOLOGY.

WHO WAS HORST WESSELS?

A BRIEF ESSAY ON THE SPANISH INQUISITION

WAS THERE A PRE-CHRISTIAN GOLDEN AGE IN EUROPE?

THE POPE CALLED IT DEAD-ON RIGHT ABOUT SOCIALISM; POPE LEO XIII, THAT IS.

A BRIEF ESSAY ON GERMAN PIETISM AND ITS ROLE IN OPPOSITION TO NAZISM