Truth on Trial: Reclaiming Erased History and Memory - Jack Righteous

Truth on Trial: Reclaiming Erased History and Memory

Gary Whittaker

Truth on Trial: Why We Must Reopen the Books

Part 1 of 7 in the "Truth on Trial" Series from JackRighteous.com

The Premise: Truth Is Moving Faster Than Censorship

We live in a time when everything is being added to the public record faster than those in power can erase it. Archives once buried are now digitized. Memoirs, photos, dissenting sermons, and forbidden essays are surfacing online—not leaked, but liberated.

And yet, much of what we’ve been taught about World War II, the Holocaust, Christian responsibility, and Zionism remains filtered through a postwar lens crafted for stability—not honesty.

This series is not about revising history. It’s about restoring memory—and issuing a warning.

Project 2025 is not just a policy platform. It’s an ideological coup—built on weaponized religion, engineered silence, and whitewashed memory. The parallels to Germany in the 1930s are chilling, not in theatrics but in tactics: educational control, Christianized statecraft, rewritten law under biblical pretext. If we don’t name it now, we enable it later.

We will explore:

  • How the Nazi regime fused Christianity and nationalism through the "German Christians"
  • How many Jews—rabbis, socialists, and religious leaders—opposed Zionism on ethical and theological grounds
  • How the Catholic Church made a pact with Hitler, then later erased parts of that story
  • How today’s academic and political climate—under Project 2025’s legal and rhetorical frameworks—is again silencing dissenting voices

This is not about blame. It is about accountability.

Niemöller's Warning Still Speaks

Pastor Martin Niemöller, who initially supported Hitler and later resisted him from within the Confessing Church, left us with this chilling confession:

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Communist..."

You know how it ends.

But few know how it began: with pastors giving the Hitler salute. With churches removing the Old Testament. With crucifixes draped in swastikas.

Christian complicity is not just part of the story—it was infrastructure for the story.

And likewise, not all Jews supported the establishment of a Jewish nation-state in Palestine. Their reasons were clear: some believed it betrayed their faith. Others feared it would feed antisemitic narratives. Some simply believed in staying and fighting for rights where they were.

These voices—both Christian and Jewish—stood for truth, justice, and moral clarity.

And they were erased.

Why This Series, and Why Now?

Because the past isn't past. Its consequences live in:

  • The rise of Christian nationalism across the U.S. and Europe
  • The suppression of speech in universities under weaponized definitions of antisemitism
  • The deep confusion between criticism of Israel and hatred of Jews
  • The Vatican’s continued silence on Pius XII’s inaction during the Holocaust
  • The active blueprint of Project 2025 to reassert Christian dominion through government control

We must know what was forgotten—and why.

What to Expect

Over the next six articles, we’ll walk through the full record:

  1. The German Church that followed Hitler—and how Project 2025 echoes it today
  2. The Jews who opposed Zionism—and how they’re being silenced again
  3. The Vatican’s deal with the devil—and its modern political analogs
  4. The postwar effort to erase uncomfortable evidence—and today’s “patriotic” curriculum push
  5. The modern censorship of those speaking historical truths—especially under Project 2025’s cultural agenda
  6. The moral imperative to remember and to act—because what we forget becomes our future

We will not use this space to inflame—but to illuminate.

If you've ever felt that something about the "official" story doesn’t sit right...
If you've ever wondered why certain facts are missing from textbooks...
If you've questioned the morality of silence dressed up as diplomacy...

This series is for you.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Article 2: https://jackrighteous.com/blogs/articles-in-faith/swastika-in-the-sanctuary-christian-nationalism

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