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  • 2022-08-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Echo Hitler's Exact Words on Christianity? (en)
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  • On Aug. 1, 2022, we received mail from our readers asking us to find out if U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., had repeated a 1928 utterance by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler about Christianity. The original Hitler quote, which we authenticated previously, read, We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian. A meme that appeared in several public Facebook posts (and likely quite a few private postings as well) also attributed that statement to Greene, as if she were echoing Hitler's exact words. However, we found no record of Greene repeating Hitler's statement about Christianity. We looked to reporting from Salon and HuffPost. It appeared that the idea to add Greene to the Hitler meme was likely inspired after she was interviewed at the conservative Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit (SAS). The student event took place on July 23, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. The same date was mentioned in the meme under Greene's name. On or around July 23, Greene was interviewed by Tayler Hansen with the conservative Next News Network. A video of the interview was published on Twitter: During the interview, the following exchange took place, in which Greene called herself a Christian nationalist: In addition to the interview, Greene spoke onstage at the student event in Tampa about why she refers to herself as a nationalist. At the 4:07 mark in the following YouTube video, Greene said, If you're a nationalist, that means you care about your country, which we should. Now, all of our tax dollars are hard-earned tax dollars, they should go towards our country, isn't that right? Greene added remarks at the 8:18 mark in the video about referring to herself specifically as a Christian nationalist: The Christian nationalist remarks from Greene led to backlash from Christian groups Faithful America and Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, as well as colleagues in Congress. In sum, the meme's claim that Greene repeated the words Hitler uttered about Christianity in 1928 is false. Note: We reached out to Greene's office for comment about the meme but did not yet receive a response. (en)
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