National Socialism Was Not Christian
October 28, 2023
FROM The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich:
On June 8th, 1939, the Schwarze Korps published the following reflections on religion under the title “The Nature of God.”’
We have long considered the problem: Which Christian doctrines are repugnant to the moral dispositions of the German race, and must be regarded, according to the clear teaching of Article 24 of the Party Programme of the NSDAP, as incompatible with racial conceptions? We have come to the conclusion that a host of Christian conceptions are, indeed, incompatible with our own. .
Those of us who travel through the German countryside and suddenly, in the midst of some view of snow-covered Alpine peaks or on some solemn Westphalian moorland, meet with the figure of the Crucified must feel deep down in our hearts—if we have any true blood-consciousness at all—a strange, enduring sense of shame. The Gods of our forefathers were not like that. They were true men, men with weapons in their hands, typifying the innate view of life and the dynamic realisation of personal responsibility of our race. How different is this pale crucified one! His attitude of passivity, the deeply-engraven sorrow of His features, expressing humility and complete self-abandonment—these are all qualities which contradict the heroic, fundamentai presuppositions of our blood-consciousness.
And now, let us view the panorama of history through the medium of blood and race, and we light upon the most incredible and degrading of all historical attacks upon rights, upon the destruction of all that our ancestors held sacred. The pure, clear, proud faith of Nordic man in his own power and the inerrancy native to clean, manly living have been destroyed by zealous ** faith ’’ preachers, whose ways of thought were alien, and who proclaimed to our race the terrifying bogy of belief in sin.
That ‘‘ evil,’’ which our forefathers, men of fine, sound blood, were wont to encounter with unsheathed arms, became an overwhelming power even amongst us. The Devil, that convenient necessity for a priestly caste whose ambition was money and power, coiled his blood-stained lash over a world degraded and cowed, robbed of its true virile might, a world of which we, too, were members.
