National Socialist periodical on Christianity being an 'alien' faith that introduced alien concepts, such as the Devil, witch-hunts and heresy trials.
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"...Christianity is also responsible for introducing the Devil into the religious world of the West, who was to play such a tragic role especially in the age of heresy trials and witch-hunts. A pure embodiment of evil was alien to Germanic thought; even the Nordic Loki and the giants were originally merely enemies but not devils (Heusler). Furthermore, the conversion everywhere promoted racial mixing, which seriously endangered the inner equilibrium of the Nordic racial soul..."
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"Thus we have recognized clan-piety, nature-piety, trust in God, and heroic proving-oneself in the face of fate as the fundamental spiritual forms of the Nordic-Germanic religion—all four embedded in the sacred order of the world and of human life, an order that embraces all members of the people and at the same time makes them jointly responsible for upholding it over this Germanic world and its piety (which was rooted in the racial soul) there now came, during the Migration Period, Oriental Christianity.
This Christianity was a power so utterly ALIEN to the essence of the German that it brought about a revaluation of all values and, consequently, a complete shift in the supreme goal of life: in place of the hero came the saint. Today we can scarcely imagine the spiritual state in which the Germanic warrior stepped before the baptismal font to accept the ALIEN TEACHING. We must think neither of a spontaneous self-dissolution of the Germanic religion nor of any religious-moral superiority on the part of Rome’s missionaries—the tradition makes that clear enough. The main cause must rather be sought elsewhere.
At that time most of the East and West Germanic tribes had been torn out of their ancient homeland and thus uprooted from the ancestral soil in which their clans had been embedded for generations; in the newly occupied lands they lived as a thin ruling stratum scattered over wide areas among an alien population. This severance from the sacred mountains, groves, and springs of their ancestors, together with the loosening of the clan bonds, could not fail—in an age whose piety was closely bound up with consecrated communal rites—to bring about a loosening of all spiritual ties.
That is why we also see that the Saxons, who had remained in their old homeland and preserved their clan structures, offered the most stubborn resistance to the Franks’ attempts at conversion until, after thirty years of bloody struggle, they were finally crushed. For the rest, the converters almost everywhere succeeded first in winning over the leaders of the people, who then completed the work by employing political power.
The conversion brought about, in the course of time, such a transformation of thought that even today it is not easy for us to judge a non-Christian religious fact fairly, because the influence of Christianity makes itself felt right down into the formation of concepts and the development of our mother tongue. All our words for religious phenomena—such as fromm (“pious”), heilig (“holy”), beten (“to pray”), Gott (“God”) and many others—carry a Christian coloring; when we therefore apply them to non-Christian conditions, we run the risk of misunderstanding them.
We have already seen how strong the change in meaning can sometimes be in the case of the word Sünde (“sin”). As one further example among many, let the word Hochmut (“pride, arrogance”) be mentioned. “High courage” or, in its original sense, “lofty state of mind”—a quality that undoubtedly appeared praiseworthy to the Germanic mind—stood in such sharp contradiction to the humility demanded of a Christian that the word Hochmut finally acquired a pejorative meaning.
Only in the derivative hochgemut (“high-spirited”) has the old meaning been preserved. Christianity is also responsible for introducing the Devil into the religious world of the West, who was to play such a tragic role especially in the age of heresy trials and witch-hunts. A pure embodiment of evil was alien to Germanic thought; even the Nordic Loki and the giants were originally merely enemies but not devils (Heusler).
Furthermore, the conversion everywhere promoted racial mixing, which seriously endangered the inner equilibrium of the Nordic racial soul; it also brought about the medieval flight from the world, the mortification of the flesh, and shifted the religious centre of gravity to the hereafter."
~ Richard v. Hoff
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Source:
Rasse - Monatschrift der Nordischen Bewegung 4.1937, Pgs 228-232.
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