Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pagan Cults. That the German people were betrayed into Christianity by Emperor Charlemagne 1,100 years ago is a proposition only recently established by Dr. Rosenberg. Charlemagne represented an "alien principle" (Christianity) whereas the Saxons with whom he did battle were archetypal Nazis fighting for "blood and soil." Charlemagne slew 4,500 Saxons at Verden and there this spring Dr. Rosenberg had a monument of 4,500 stone blocks erected in their honor. Unmoved by twits from the Catholic press for rewriting history to suit his own beliefs, Dr. Rosenberg orated: "After, 1,000 years . . . the will...
...Rosenberg is not entirely unreligious. Indeed out of his revised history and his Nordic mythology he has erected a pagan worship which substitutes Odin for Moses, Siegfried for Saul, and 2,000,000 World War heroes for Christianity's company of saints. His pale eyes glowing, Dr. Rosenberg shouts: "The new mythology cannot be downed!" And throughout Germany strange little pagan cults pop up like autumn crocuses. Latest of them is the Nordic Religious Community, founded last week, which is pantheistic and rejects the doctrine of atonement. The pagan cultists are genuinely, if boisterously and truculently pious, and in their...
...shall act as the Weihewart or Consecrator of this wedding," declared Professor Hauer, and proceeded to do so. While the bride and groom bent their heads and cameras clicked, the Weihewart read sonorously from a ritual book of Pagan devising: "Oh Mother Earth, from whom all love proceeds! And oh Father Heaven, who blesses with His light and weather! And all good Powers of the Air! May you rule over this man and this woman until their destinies are fulfilled...
Same day in Vatican City the Osservatore Romano, official newsorgan of the Holy See, declared that the recent "blood purge" and "unheard of cruelties" of Adolf Hitler were the direct result of Nazi pagan teaching. "It is incredible and shocking that final religious solace was denied to the men doomed," declared Osservatore. "A drop of liquor and a cigaret were not refused, yet Christ was denied to these unfortunate Germans. How sad their agony must have been. It is unheard of and terrifying to refuse to souls their supreme comfort: God's forgiveness. For the essence of Christianity...
...fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored to the most imposing medieval stronghold in East Prussia, famed Marienburg Castle, onetime seat of the "Teutonic Knights,' a motley crew who left off crusading for the pious work of converting pagan Prussians. Coming from the Near East, they brought with them Oriental ideas of architecture. Last week Their Majesties spent a whole afternoon minutely examining a vast moated palace as grotesquely strange as some of the temples of Siam. "Really, you know." said King Prajadhipok. "I am very interested." In the visitors...