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THE
"Priests And
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 27, 1938.
Parsons!
Keep Out Of Politics!"
HE Nazi Party stands for are trying to fill a bucket with a
positive Christianity, but hole in the bottom.
A man of politics, however, must does not bind itself in creed to any particular confession. We demand try to weigh up the value of a freedom for all religious denomina religion not so much on account of tions in the State, provided that its merits or demerits, but by de- they do not threaten its security ciding what else would serve the and nor militate against the moral feel- purpose better. And until the sub-
stitute is ready only fools : ings of the German Race."
No. 24, the Nazi Twenty-five Un- criminals will destroy what is al-
ready working. alterable Commandments, 1920.
Hans CATHOLICS BETRAYED GERMANIC PRINCIPLES
"Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God."-Dr. Frank, Director of Nazi Party Legal Office, 1934.
Now in old Austro-Hungaria, Hitler is a Roman Catholic. It
where Hitler formed his ideas, the he is many years, however, since
Church played a went to Mass. Hitler has other Roman Catholic
role that called forth his positive uses for organised religion.
be-
-HITLER
MEIN KAMPF
Hitler notes the violent revolt condemnation.
Too many priests had a finger in against the Churches and their dogma, In general Mein Kampf politics and the wrong politics at deplores that movement, for "with that. The Roman Church backed out dogmatic principles religious the Habsburg Monarchy in its this policy of trying to create a mid- belief is inconceivable in world of humanity. The mass of European Catholic Slav State as a the nation do not consist of philo- set-off to the Russian Orthodox sophers; faith for them is very Slav State. This was a pure largely the sole basis for a moral trayal of the true Germanic policy of reuniting all the German peo- view of life. What ordinary cus-
and ples in one Greater Reich, toms is for everyday life
Where the Church was not open- of without it thousands of men
ly pro-Slav it was passively so. superior culture would live reason-
in- was thus established in Germany to ably well but millions of others Thus while the Czech clergy in symbolise German character, Ger- sary issue of "ultra montanism"
ceased from their man language; and German would not the Law is for the Bohemia never
Slav propaganda the German clergy dependence. But Protestantism re- bedevil still further the complicat- State and Dogma is for religion."
declined to take
up a national fuses to save the nation from the ed political situation.
Now France, Spain and Italy can grip of the Jews (though Martin
shall 'So Hitler argues the need for the organised Church, on exactly the attitude of their own.
The result? That Pan-German Luther often let go on the subject, afford to have this quarrel
that he was). That is the clerical authority have power same grounds that Napoleon con- cluded his Concordat with the Pope movement arose in Austria. For good man
Protestantism. But just this break up if the thing was allowed (and Mussolini his Concordat), to the first time men of national and because of the traditional attitude to do this or that? Germany would
and patriotic fervour turned into rebels of
crux of the re- to grow there. inculcate ideas
and point is the very of order
against the State authority
But surely everyone sees, Pro- obedience.
birth of Germany, and without its Churches against the Church authority. Hitler then tells the
The Habsburg dynasty lost the solution nothing whatever will be testant and Catholic alike, who is how to manage their business. Their chief worry should not be throne. Rome lost a great State. achieved.
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represents the
Protestantism
PROTESTANTS BLINDLY those who flatly oppose them from conviction, but the far greater number who have deserted them German ideas better than Catho- TOLERATE THE JEW
But licism. out of sheer indifference. what are the Churches, Roman
verts there
in
at the back of this plot? The Jew! "And the Jew, has certainly he is de- succeeded in his aim: lighted at seeing Catholics and Protestants fighting each other.
on
What is it, demands.Hitler, that The Enemy of Aryan humanity and was a After all, in origin it
blinds both the Protestant and the of all Christendom laughs in his inter- Catholic and Protestant, doing in national revolt against an
Catholic creed when they come to sleeve. The two Christian Churches this situation? Both of them are national creed. Protestantism is
deal with the Jew? Cannot they are looking with indifference German soil and maintaining missions in Africa and rooted in the Asia to attract a few negro con- tradition where it first succeeded see that this creature is the enemy this pollution and destruction of a itself. Martin of Christianity, civilisation and the noble and unique thing, granted by establishing which they are in thoroughly well outstripped by the Luther, who defied Pope and Em- human race? Yet they take up an God's grace to this earth. The two Mohammedans and in any case peror,
stands high in the Nazi attitude of tolerance towards him confessions are fighting each other which conforms with neither the when the whole issue is, not should of the Protestant or Catholic triumph, but interests all the time they are losing mil- hierarchy of heroes.
needs nor the lions of Germans in Europe. They
(Continuel on Page 17) Thus Protestantism will always
nation. "Why, every Jew himself can teach them the proper way to tackle matters! Just look at the Jewish Rabbi stand which the takes up in all questions which affect the Jew and compare that with the attitude of our so-called German clergy towards the German race!"
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Neither the Pan-German Party, Party nor the Christian Socialist of old Austria-Hungary grasped the central fact that the Jew's reli- gion is only.another facet of the Jew's race it would be more truthful to say a cloak for it.
They may even have helped the. Jews! For while their sham anti- Semitism held the field, the real antagonism to the Jewish merace could not be developed. No doubt the Jews were thankful. They kept their grip on Austro-Hungary rather they shared it with Czechs. Together, at all events, they succeeded in dragging down the whole fabric.
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or the
In Germany the result of priests meddling in politics was the set- ting up of the so-called Catholic of Party, a shameless piece chicanery of trying to identify Christianity with a parliamentary faction.
But this was not the worst. The | whole unimportant and unnecès-
new Church in
Berlin,