![]() Īlfred Rosenberg was influential in the development of Positive Christianity. The consensus among historians is that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated or actively opposed to Christianity. Historians and theologians generally agree about the Nazi policy towards religion, that the objective was to remove explicitly Jewish content from the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Pauline Epistles), transforming the Christian faith into a new religion, completely cleansed from any Jewish element and conciliate it with Nazism, Völkisch ideology and Führerprinzip: a religion called " Positive Christianity". Office of Strategic Services published a report which was titled "The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches". ![]() Īfter Nazi Germany surrendered at the end of World War II in Europe, the U.S. He proposed the theory that Jesus was of Aryan origin, and believed that Adolf Hitler was the new messiah. Bergmann, in his work, Die 25 Thesen der Deutschreligion (Twenty-five Points of the German Religion), expounded the theory that the Old Testament and portions of the New Testament of the Bible were both inaccurate. The Nazis were aided by theologians, such as Dr. Hillerbrand claimed that the focus on Luther's influence on Nazism's anti-Semitism ignored other factors in German history. However, according to the theologian Johannes Wallmann, Luther's views exercised no continual influence in Germany, and Hans J. The virulent antisemitism of Martin Luther has been identified as an inspiration for Nazism. Conway holds that The Holy Reich has broken new ground in the examination of the relation between Nazism and Christianity, despite his view that "Nazism and Christianity were incompatible." Conway claims that Steigmann-Gall "is undeniably right to point out how much Nazism owed to German Christian" concepts and only considers his conclusion as "overdrawn". Historians have described this statement as "a tactical measure, 'cleverly' left undefined in order to accommodate a broad range of meanings," and an "ambiguous phraseology." However, Richard Steigmann-Gall in The Holy Reich holds that, on closer examination, "Point 24 readily provides us with three key ideas in which the Nazis claimed that their movement was Christian": the movement's antisemitism, its social ethic under the phrase Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz (roughly: "public need before private greed") and its attempt to bridge the confessional divide between Catholicism and Protestantism in Germany. In this statement, the Nazi party demands freedom of religion (for all religious denominations that are not opposed to the customs and moral sentiments of the Germanic race) the paragraph proclaims the party's endorsement of Positive Christianity. ![]() The Nazi Party program of 1920 included a statement on religion which was numbered point 24. See also: German Christians (movement), German Evangelical Church, Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, Kirchenkampf, Positive Christianity, and Protestant Reich Church
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