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An identification of the Jewish God with the Holy Trinity had to be avoided at all costs. The embarrassing fact
was that Jesus himself was a Jew. But Stapel soon found a way out of the embarrassment: since Jesus was a son
of God, he could not be considered a Jew. The Jewish dogmata and traditions were to be replaced by the
"experiencing of one's own conscience," indulgence by the "idea of personal honor."
The belief in a life hereafter is refuted as "witchcraft of the South Seas." The immaculate conception of the
Virgin Mary was treated similarly. With regard to the latter, Scharnagel states:
He [Rosenberg] confuses the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin, i.e., her freedom from original sin, with
the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus.
[100] The success of religious mysticism has always been great because its core has been the teaching of
original sin, which means the sexual act for pleasure. National Socialism retains the motif and only utilizes it
with a different ideology, one which serves its own purposes:
The cross is the symbol of the teaching of the sacrificed lamb which . . . by the horrible presentation of pain depresses us and makes
us humble, as the tyrannical churches want us to be . . . A German church will in time, in the churches it will take over, present, in
place of the crucifixion, the teaching spirit of the fire, the hero in the highest sense of the word (Rosenberg, l.c., p. 577).
It is only a matter of changing the fetters: Masochistic international religious mysticism is to be replaced by the
sadistic narcissistic mysticism of Nationalism. Now it is a matter of
recognizing German National honor as the ultimate yardstick of behavior. [The State] will give every religious belief every
conceivable freedom and will in no way interfere with any kind of moral teachings—provided that they do not conflict with the
preservation of national honor.
(MEIN KAMPF—Translation by T.P.W.)
As we have seen, the ideology of national honor derives from the authoritarian order, and this in turn from the
sex-negating sexual order. Christianity and National Socialism alike support the institution of compulsive
marriage. To the former it is—apart from procreation—"a full lifelong communion"; to the latter, it is a biological
institution for the preservation of racial purity. Outside of compulsive marriage, they do not recognize a sexual
life.
National Socialism intends to maintain religion not on a historical but on a "present-day" basis. This is because
of the disintegration of Christian sexual morality, a process which cannot be stemmed by pointing to historical
necessity alone.
The Völkische race state will have to find, sooner or later, its deepest anchoring in religion. Only when the belief in God is no
longer con-[101]nected with a certain historical event of the past but with the specific being and acting of the people and the state as
well as the individual, in an everlasting experience—only then will our world again have a solid basis. (Ludwig Haase, in
Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte 1, Nr. 5, p. 213).
We know what "specific being and acting" means: being "moral," that is, sex-negating.
Nothing shows more clearly what in religion is not essential for its reactionary function and what is essential
than the aspects in which the National Socialists felt they had to differentiate themselves from the church and
those which they advocate in common with the church. 3
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3 True, the National Socialists rescinded the Prussian concordat (of July 7, 1929) and the Bavarian concordat (of July 5, 1930). But that was merely a matter
of an endowment of 4,122,370 RM. On the other hand, the increase in church taxes in Bavaria to 19.7 million RM. in 1931 (a year of severe economic crisis)
was not opposed (in 1914, these taxes were 5.87 million). The following data are from the article by Robert Boeck, "Konkordate sehen Dich an." According to
the Bavarian concordat of January 25, 1925, the following concessions were made to the church:
1. The priests are state officials.
2. The state admits that the secularization of 1817 did a severe injustice to the church and leaves it to the church to put in a claim for a return of the
confiscated property or its value in money to the amount of sixty million goldmarks.