Readers of Doug’s Blog may recall that two months ago we featured a series of images and articles about Hilmar von Campe, a youthful octegenarian who visited the Phillips home and shared his perspective as a former Hitler Youth turned Christian preacher, about totalitarianism. We were delighted to see his writings on the Focus on the Family website and to learn of Mr. von Campe’s friendship with Dr. Dobson. Below is an excerpt from the letter published on the Focus on the Family site:

”...Strangely enough, I cannot find any clause in the Constitution that stipulates a separation of church and state; the First Amendment certainly cannot be interpreted this way unless one does not mind lies. But the concept reminds me of the Nazi years in Germany, where I grew up.

In school and in the Hitler Youth — which I was forced to enter like any other youth — we were told that we could pray and sing hymns in our homes and in church as much as we liked. But as far as society was concerned, the national Socialists (i.e., Nazis) let it be known that they decided and declared what was right and what was wrong.
People soon learned that you turned up in a concentration camp if you objected to the Nazi version of what was right. On Sunday mornings, Gestapo agents stood in front of our church to intimidate those who entered. Nazis spoke of separation of church and state, but they meant separation of God and society so that they could twist what was right and have their evil ways. The Ten Commandments were just another obstacle on their road to national and global power.

Everybody knows how it ended. Hitler was unable to achieve what he had promised to do: to eliminate Christianity in Germany once he had won the war. Godlessness was the root of the Nazi evil, and godlessness is at the heart of the attack on Chief Justice Moore.

Judge Moore is upholding not only the U.S. Constitution, but also the Alabama Constitution. His fight is for the American people to honor their roots and be free as a nation and, with God’s guidance, provide moral leadership to humanity. Since when can a federal judge force the chief justice of a state of the union to break his oath of office?”