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Positive Christianity Is Anti-Trinitarian
SOURCE FOR BELOW: ANDREW J. KRZESINSKI, PhD. "RELIGION OF NAZI GERMANY" BRUCE HUMPHRIES, INC. / PUBLISHERS. BOSTON 1945. Pgs 39-40. Retrieved 07/23/2020 from: https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=rarebooks
In many official statements, Hitler is called, as is Jesus Christ in the Gospel, the way, the truth and the light. Dr. Robert Ley, a Nazi State Minister and leader of the Labor Front, writes in his letter of instruction to educators (Schulungsbrief) as follows: "We believe in this world in Adolf Hitler only."
In this new German religion there is no future life, and therefore no responsibility after death. All teachers and educators were instructed by the government that no hope of such a future life or any idea of salvation should be allowed to remain in the child's consciousness. To facilitate for Catholics and Protestants a transition to the German Church, the names of Christian ceremonies and Sacraments were retained but they were deprived of their own meaning.
Before the outbreak of the war a circular was issued by the Provisional Council of the Lutheran Confessional Church which accepted all principles of the German Church. We read there as follows:
"In the ceremony of Baptism the name of the Trinity should no longer be mentioned.
"At Confirmation, children must swear that they will fight against Rome and Jewry.
"Both the Church authorities and the Congregations know that Communion is being celebrated as a "festival of blood and soil" or as a symbol of the fact that bread was made by the death of the wheat to give life to the people."
"The consecrated wheat" need not be given to Nordic individuals."
It is regrettable that so many Protestant ministers abandoned so easily the Christian ideals. Lewis Spence says rightly: "The cynical brutality of the utterance by men once ordained as ministers of the Lutheran Church, but now functioning as the officials of Nazi Positive Christianity, is surely a terrible commentary on the change of spirit which has overtaken the German race within less than a generation."
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