Sunday, June 7, 2015

"German Faith" against both Catholicism and Protestantism


It wasn't just Marxism's communist derivations that had no room for competing worldviews.  One of the Kulturkampf letters of the Confessing Church notes the complete lack of, well, Christianity, in the Nazis' "Positive Christianity" as stated in their periodical German Faith, as they sought to destroy the "confessions" or doctrinal centers of gravity for both Catholicism and Protestantism as Weltanschaungs that threatened the Nazi Weltanshauung:
from page 62 of Confronting the Nazi War on Christianity: The Kulturkampf Newsletters, 1936-1939  By Richard Bonney.   The newsletters deplored "the growing deChristianization of public life," the deChristianization of the schools," and "the deChristianization of legislation in the areas of family, marriage and education."*





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