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Josiah Strong and his ideology compared to Nazi ideology

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Josiah Strong and his ideology compared to Nazi ideology


Josiah Strong’s and Hitler’s (Nazi) Ideology have many similarities and differences. Both ideologies subscribe to some of the same social and political theories and have many points of comparison and interest.


First of all, both Strong and Hitler subscribed to theories of racial hierarchy and social Darwinism. Interestingly, although both believed their races to be the superior there was some mutual respect between the two. Hitler admiring the British empire and having good relations with the royal family and Strong referring to the German Race as one of the noblest (even though living at different times in history) Strong believed Protestant Christianity was the most powerful force for "civilizing" peoples all over the world, and he believed that people of Anglo-Saxon origin were the best positioned to "civilize" the rest of the world. "This race is destined to dispossess many weaker ones, assimilated others, and mold of the remainder until . it has Anglo-Saxonized mankind.” (Josiah Strong).

Strong believed that the Anglo-Saxons were being trained by god for the final competition of races over the limited means of subsistence on earth. Similarly a big part of Hitler´s Agenda consisted of the creation of more living space for the German Race “Lebensraumpolitik”, just like Strong Hitler believed that in a case like the competition of the races there was no doubt that it was a case of survival of the fittest and since the Aryans in his mind were the superior race they would eventually win this competition.


Being a protestant clergyman Strong believed that all races could be improved and uplifted and thereby brought to Christ. This shows that religion played a central role in Strong´s Ideology. In contrast the Nazis didn’t care much for religion. The Nazi Party Programme of 1920 guaranteed freedom for all religious denominations not hostile to the State.

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Furthermore Strong argued that, "The Anglo-Saxon is the representative of two great ideas, which are closely related. One of them is that of civil liberty. Nearly all of the civil liberty of the world is enjoyed by Anglo-Saxons: the English, the British colonists, and the people of the United States The other great idea of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent is that of a pure spiritual Christianity." He went on, "It follows, then, that the Anglo-Saxon, as the great representative of these two ideas, the depositary of these two greatest blessings, sustains peculiar relations to the world's future, is divinely commissioned to be, in a peculiar sense, his brother's keeper.” Strong believed in the purity of belief and blood and similarly to the Nazis he had the notion that a superior race was entitled to taking over not so highly populated land.


Both Ideologies had a strong sense of nationalism, for the Nazis the “Heimatland” was immensely important and expanding it and taking back lost parts ( Treaty of Versailles) of it was necessary, righteous and a major part in political agenda. In comparison Strong believed North America to be the home of the Anglo-Saxons his view of Christianizing and "civilizing" non-Anglo-Saxon people co-existed with the notion in the United States, contemporary to his life, of "Manifest Destiny" which was a belief in the right of the United States to spread her values and way of life from the US to the rest of the world.


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