Magdeburg Terror Attack: A providential Wake-up Call to the German people

21 December 2024

On Friday evening a Saudi immigrant practicing medicine in Germany rammed his car into a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt. At least five people were killed and over 200 injured.

Terror attacks by Arabic and African immigrants have become a common feature of German society in recent years, but the fact that this most recent attack took place in the city of Magdeburg of all places is significant, given that it was Magdeburg and Magdeburg alone that resisted a sixteenth-century attempt by emperor Charles V to once again subdue Germany under the papal authority in Rome following Martin Luther’s death. The Lutheran Pastors of Magdeburg drew up the Magdeburg Confession (1550), which not only served them well in their own resistance to imperial tyranny, but would also later be appealed to by the likes of John Knox, Theodore Beza, Du Plessis Mornay, and Thomas Goodwin for the same ends.

The Pactum Institute and our members condemn the attack in the strongest terms, but at the same time one cannot help but recognize the significance of this weekend’s attack occurring in that ancient bastion of German Christianity and German Nationalism. As such it must be interpreted as a providential wake-up call to the German people to repent of their apostasy and resist the tyranny of the Great Replacement. For if the history of the past few decades, marked by the cowardice and passivity of European nations in the midst of the ongoing invasion is anything to go by, it is clear that without national repentance, there will be no national resistance.