Word: reichsbishop
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Reinhold Krause, a Berlin pastor associated with the extreme wing of the Nazi movement, has called down a summary rebuke from the Reichsbishop by a very curious salvo on the Old Testament. He uncompromisingly demanded "elimination of the Old Testament as a religious book . . and rejection of all ecclesiastical leaders who do not stand 100 per cent upon the platform of National Socialism." I can only interpret this demand as a suggestion that there is a heady and dangerous impasse between the political theory of the Old Testament and that of the Hitler party. How far is our thunderer justified...
...compounded, would have flourished anywhere so well as in Israel. Dr. Krause should not allow his hatred of the Jews to blind him to that great bulwark to Nazi political theory which the Old Testament provides. He should demand that it be read by every young German, as the Reichsbishop, a cleverer man, has already done. I do not know if his doctorate was earned in Church History. Certainly it was not earned in the College of Propaganda. POLLUX...