Court Order over Church Name = Same Tactic as Nazis

Why do I say this lawsuit is "evil"?

It was a vital part of Hitler's plan in taking over Germany to get "supreme directional control" over the church. He accomplished this by endorsing the campaign of bishop Ludwig Muller in the rigged church elections of July, 1933. (our 1984) Muller was a Nazi stooge. Muller's election caused the German church to not only change it's doctrines but also it's name, becoming the "Reich Church." This caused a divide between two factions, the "German Christians" (the pro-Nazi "Christians") who retained control over the old organization and the "young Reformers" (the real Christians who opposed Nazism) who had to rebuild and establish their own small independent congregations and seminaries from scratch just like the Restoration Branches have, until Hitler required all Protestant churches to be acknowledged by the Reich Church, at which time they were completely shut down or went underground.

During the 1933 election, the opposition to Muller was prevented from distributing their literature (it was seized by the Gestapo) by a court order from a judge on the basis that they were using the name of the original church - the same name used by the "German Christians." I don't want to accuse anyone in the CoC of Nazism or antisemitism but the parallel is obvious. If he hadn't gained total control over the church in Germany, Hitler would never have been able to carry out the Holocaust because the Christians would have organized and stopped it. But with their church hijacked, their independent congregations outlawed and a court order preventing them from even using their own name, there was nothing they could do. Many of the leaders of the independent movement in Germany who never gave in ended up in the concentration camps or were executed in prison. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

When the devil wants to carry out a big plan, he always has to find a way to silence the church, and this lawsuit is a very old tactic, right out of his playbook.