The dawn of the Atomic Age saw many evangelical Christian preachers claiming that atomic energy, the splitting of the atom and atomic bombs themselves as proof of God's greatness. If being "great" as a god amounts to the destruction of the world, apart from those white Christian Americans who would some how miraculously survive an atomic apocalypse. There's the cheery little pamphlet from Rev. William D. Herrstrom (below), Christian nut-job and Holocaust denier. He even thought that people openly celebrating VJ Day, was an example of the "moral degeneracy of American youth [that] is nauseating to contemplate." Here's a selection of some of best of the bombed-out bunch.
