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'''Gerhard Kittel''' (1888-1948) was a German [[liberal Christian]] theologian who revealed himself to be a virulent anti-Semite who wrote [[Nazi]]-influenced nonsense about Christianity.  Until his disclosure of or conversion to [[anti-Semitism]], he had been a well respected scholar.  He was so well-respected that secular and Christian [[Liberals]] within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen's published work on Kittel in 1985 made such liberal denialism no longer possible, four decades after the Reich's fall<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=icUf4Ttg_6EC ''Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch''], Robert P. Ericksen, Yale University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-300-02926-8</ref>.
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A place where nobody dared to go
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The love that we came to know
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They call it Xanadu
  
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*After the publication of Kittel's anti-Semitic views, the great Jewish theologian [[Martin Buber]] acknowledged that his views were the "ruling ideas" but told him "What I did not know is that you shared them."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_JaMKrRjYx0C&pg=PA266&dq=Gerhard+Kittel&lr=#PPA143,M1 ''The lion and the star''], Jonathan C. Friedman, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p.143</ref>
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*[[Herbert Lowewe]], a [[Cambridge University]] professor, wrote this to Kittel in August 1933:
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Open your eyes and see
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What we have made is real
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We are in Xanadu
  
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{{cquote|It gives me great pain to find that so great an authority and leader of thought should give expression to such views. I have read your previous books with pleasure and profit, and I have learned much from them. ... your present pronouncement is quite incompatible with your previous teaching, and it is as unjust to Christianity as it is to Judaism. ... It is a grievous disillusionment to find that one's idol has feet of clay.}}
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A million lights are dancing
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And there you are
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A shooting star
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An everlasting world
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And you're here with me
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Eternally
  
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==[[Conservative Christianity|Theological conservatism]] proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism==
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Xanadu, Xanadu,
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Gerhard Kittel was a [[liberal Christian]] theologian who was a dupe of Nazi rhetoric.
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(now we are here)
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{{cquote|The message is as clear here as it is in studies of the Confessing Church or of the Jehovah's Witnesses' bloody struggles against the Third Reich: '''Theological conservatism proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism'''. Thus theologians like [[Paul Tillich]] and [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], coming also from the German Protestant tradition, found themselves on a different path from Kittel, Althus and Hirsch. Those who argued the gap between God and humankind to be unbridgeable by political systems found themselves able to preach Christ and salvation in religious rather than political terms, even if their actions, as in the case of Bonhoeffer, were intensely political. <ref> "Review of ''Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althus, and Emanuel Hirsch''", ''[[Sociological Analysis]]'', Christine E. King, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 1987), pp. 358-359 </ref>}}
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In Xanadu
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Xanadu, Xanadu,
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(now we are here)
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In Xanadu
  
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==Sources==
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Xanadu, your neon lights will shine
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=fnpPf_AxWEgC&pg=PA4&dq=Holocaust+and+german+theology&ei=niBZSaL5FYaoM7y-gW0#PPA4,M1 ''In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century''], Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack, Berghahn Books, 2001 ISBN 1571813020, ISBN 9781571813022, 401 pages
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For you, Xanadu
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==External links==
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The love
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===Online works===
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The echoes of long ago
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*[http://www.archive.org/details/MN41923ucmf_1 Der "historische Jesus"] (1932)
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You needed the world to know
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*[http://www.archive.org/details/theologischesw00kittuoft Greek language, Biblical -- Dictionaries German] (no date)
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They are in Xanadu
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*[http://www.archive.org/details/theologischesw01kittuoft Greek language, Biblical -- Dictionaries German] (1960)
 
  
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The dream
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That came through a million years
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That lived on through all the tears
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It came to Xanadu
  
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A million lights are dancing
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And there you are
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A shooting star
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An everlasting world
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And you're here with me
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Eternally
  
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[[Category: Theologians]]
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Xanadu, Xanadu,
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(now we are here)
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In Xanadu
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Xanadu, Xanadu,
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(now we are here)
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In Xanadu
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Now that I'm here
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Now that you're near in Xanadu
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Now that I'm here
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Now that you're near in Xanadu
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Xanadu...

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A place where nobody dared to go The love that we came to know They call it Xanadu

And now Open your eyes and see What we have made is real We are in Xanadu

A million lights are dancing And there you are A shooting star An everlasting world And you're here with me Eternally

Xanadu, Xanadu, (now we are here) In Xanadu Xanadu, Xanadu, (now we are here) In Xanadu

Xanadu, your neon lights will shine For you, Xanadu

The love The echoes of long ago You needed the world to know They are in Xanadu

The dream That came through a million years That lived on through all the tears It came to Xanadu

A million lights are dancing And there you are A shooting star An everlasting world And you're here with me Eternally

Xanadu, Xanadu, (now we are here) In Xanadu Xanadu, Xanadu, (now we are here) In Xanadu

Now that I'm here Now that you're near in Xanadu Now that I'm here Now that you're near in Xanadu Xanadu...

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