Word: ller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile everything was so wrong that the Protestant bishops in Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller's "Spiritual Cabinet" resigned after a secret conference lasting eight hours and the Reichsbischof's consecration, scheduled for last Sunday, had to be "indefinitely postponed...
Reichsbischof Müller, no friend of Jews, declared in an interview at Konigsberg last week that "Christianity was not born of Jewry but out of a fight against it." On the other hand he was not ready to paganize Protestantism, seemed to wish to straddle that issue. "We cannot be a conglomeration of Christians and Nordic pagans," he declared. "We must learn to view Christ in the German fashion," This fashion the Reichsbischof did not define. It vibrated last week between non-Nazi and Nazi overemphasis respectively on the passive concept of Gentle Jesus and the active concept...
...attitude by our Churches of unconcerned neutrality toward the State now belongs to the past!" shouted Reichsbischof Müller, hammering home the main point at once to the Synod. ''We must all give loyal service to the State, which disavows - definitely and altogether right fully - any liberal or social freedom of conscience...
Though the Synod is Protestant and Adolf Hitler of course is Catholic, Reichsbischof Müller told the churchmen that "Our Chancellor appears to us as a gift from God." Recalling, somewhat left-handedly, Martin Luther's great declaration of the equal freedom and value of all men in the sight of God, Reichsbischof Müller tacked on this Nazi amendment : "Equality before God does not exclude inequality among men, which is also willed by God. For this reason all non-Aryans* must be barred from holding office in the church...
When Reichsbischof Müller finally sat down ten bishops rose and laid before the Synod a protest signed by 2,000 German pastors. "It is not permissible," they declared "that the Church of Christ betray brotherly love and by the rule of force become a kingdom of this world. . . . Church ministration is in the greatest danger. Pastors and church officials are persecuted. . . . We protest . . . especially to the so-called 'Aryan paragraph...