Alabama ministry puts up billboard using pro-indoctrination quote from Adolph Hitler.

Courtesy of the Ledger-Enquirer:  

A billboard at the Village Mall in Auburn, Ala., features five smiling kids beneath a quote from Adolf Hitler: "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." 

According to Lamar Advertising's Montgomery office, the billboard was rented out by Life Savers Ministries, based in Opelika, Ala. 

Hitler's quote traces back to his speeches of the '30s, and has historically been tied to the Nazi youth programs. 

The billboard went up Friday and will be taken down Tuesday, per LSM's request. 

"We are pulling the billboard and certainly never intended to cause confusion. ... Herbert Hoover would have been a far better one to quote when he said, 'Children are our most valuable resource,'" founder James Anderegg told the Ledger-Enquirer. "We are a children’s organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less." 

"We are a children’s organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less." I'm pretty sure Hitler said something along those lines as well.

You know there must be a handbook somewhere that instructs these organizations NOT to state what their purpose is, and to avoid using horrible historical figures as their inspiration, but apparently Life Savers Ministry lost their copy.

And of course this provides the opportunity to once again put that old wives tale about Hitler being an Atheist to rest. Hitler was raised in the Catholic church, learned his antisemitism there, and even  borrowed the swastika from the coat of arms that was displayed on the stone arch at the monastery where he attended school.

In fact Hitler would probably be very pleased with the methodology utilized by fundamentalists and Christian home school programs in this country, and their reliance on the camouflage of religion to provide cover for their agenda.

Which reminds me of another quote attributed to Adolph Hitler:

“Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”

Who indeed?