Soul Throbs

To stop the furious squabbling among Nazi groups bent on founding a 100% Teuton religion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, himself a Roman Catholic, recently ordered them to unite as Die Deutsche Glaubens Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff, was present he went unnoticed. The big issue promptly became Paragraph 24 of the Nazi Constitution which explicitly makes Christianity the religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept of a Messiah dying for the sins of others. In a spirit of Nazi compromise it was agreed that "the saintly individuality of Christ is beyond question, but He was only a human being unrelated to God." Exactly what positive line the new Nazi Christianity will take remained obscure. "The new German creed will not depend on a future world alone," mysteriously explained Count zu Reventlow. "but on the throb in our souls. We will follow the voice which God put in our breast, our conscience and our divine feeling. The ideas of the New Testament are a mixture of several ancient religions and are insufficient to fulfill our German religious needs.

"Germany's future is based on a German religion in German souls, which will rule our whole life and lead us to our God, something we cannot analyze, but a belief that something is above us and inspiring us."

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