I guess the Bishop of Berlin was wrong to feel threatened in 1935 then...
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"There can be no possible doubt that we Christians are engaged in a hard fight. The new religion of blood has declared war upon us; their battle cries range from a cold rejection of Christian doctrine to an exacerbation full of hate…The aim of this struggle in which we are now engaged is to drive Christianity out of our Fatherland."
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Hitler may have tried to use the church as a manipulator of the masses, but make no doubts he did wish to remove it, it was an obstacle to the Reich and his power. Hitler's idea was called 'Positive Christianity", it was not Christian in any sense, it was pagan, and it put state and race over morality and God.