Did you know that Adolf Hitler called himself a Christian?

He admired aspects of Martin Luther’s ideas but rejected core teachings like humility, compassion, and the sanctity of life.

His worldview was rooted in racist nationalism and pseudo-science, not in the gospel of love. The Nazi regime even tried to rewrite Christianity into a “purified” version stripped of Jewish roots and reshaped to serve their ideology.

Hitler twisted scripture to suit his agenda. He once said: “My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. … In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.”

But look closely: Hitler’s version of Jesus was a fighter in the Nazi image, not the Christ who came in love.

Yes, Yeshua did clear the temple. But in doing so, he harmed no one. His act was not about exclusion—it was about inclusion. He cleared space for ALL people to gather freely in God’s house, without exploitation or barriers.

Even his firmness carried gentleness. Scripture reminds us: “The Lord was not in the fire. The Lord was not in the wind. The Lord was not in the earthquake; but the Lord was in the still small voice. ”

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbour as yourself.” It really is that simple.

Yeshua, whom we call Jesus, did not ask us to build religions. He invited us to build relationships, as family, with love at the center. And yet, here we are, tangled in layers of belief, tradition, and law.

Yeshua’s own parable of the wheat and the chaff tells us plainly that much of what we cling to is false: empty ideas that do not grow healthy relationships rooted in love.

This is the Spirit of Christ: decisive yet tender, strong yet merciful. And so we are left with a searching question: Are we willing to examine ourselves, to ask whether we too are using laws and doctrines to purge and purify instead of to love?

The question is not whether truth exists; the question is whether we are humble enough to admit that we are often wrong, and willing to be corrected.

Are we clinging to chaff—ideas that wound and exclude—or are we building as the wheat, healthy nourishing relationships with all people, in partnership with God? #NurturingKindred #DecolonizingDivinity