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good, and denounces war; Nietzsche glorifies war and holds
that we are justified in working our wills not only upon
those who do us evil, but upon all comers, provided that
they are weaker than we are. Finally, Christian philosophy
proclaims that truth is absolute, and declares that to the eye
of faith it may be revealed; Nietzsche adopts a pragmatic
attitude to truth, and has faith only in the Superman who
will make his truth for himself.
Contemporary Expressions of Nietzsche's Doctrines*
I have enlarged upon Nietzsche's ethical doctrines for the
reason that fascist ethics consists of little more than their
application. The insistence upon will, the glorification
of power, the division of mankind into two classes, those
who have thewill to seize power and to wield it the natural
leaders of mankind and those who, lacking will, are the
naturally led, the repudiation of the virtues lauded by
Christianity all this and much more in the Nietzschean
vein finds expression in the utterances and the actions
of the rulers of contemporary Germany. Particularly
close to Nietzsche is the Nazi criticism of Christianity.
In March, 1934, the German Nazi Church issued a Catechism
from which the following is an extract : "The German
has his own religion, which springs living from his own
special observation, sentiment and thought. We call it
the German or German-racial religion, and by that we
mean the peculiar and natural German faith in the
nation. . . . The German of to-day needs a healthy and
natural religion which makes him brave, pious and strong
in the fight for folk and Fatherland. The German religion
is such a creed . . . Christianity is not such a creed;
on the contrary, it is rather the type of an unhealthy and
unnatural final religion." The extract could be paralleled
by innumerable quotations
of a similar tendency. It is not
in Jesus Christ that the modern Nazi believes, but I quote
from the articles of faith contained in the " Bible " of the
German Taith Movement "in the German, God's other
beloved Son". As the German Confessional Church, in a