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In his influential 1930 book The Myth of the Twentieth Century, Alfred Rosenberg argued that Jesus was not Jewish but was instead an Aryan, likely of Germanic or Amorite descent. This pseudohistorical claim was a cornerstone of his “Positive Christianity,” which sought to purge the religion of its Jewish origins to align it with Nazi racial ideology. Rosenberg’s main arguments and theories included:
Aryan Ancestry: Following the ideas of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Rosenberg claimed Jesus was born in Galilee, an area he alleged was populated by non-Semitic peoples. He suggested Jesus might have been the son of a Germanic legionary serving in Palestine.
The “Warrior” Jesus: He rejected the image of Jesus as a “suffering servant” or a “Lamb of God,” which he viewed as a Jewish corruption. Instead, he depicted Jesus as a “fiery spirit” and a heroic fighter who stood against the “Jewish spirit” and the “corrupt” establishment.
Rejection of the Old Testament: Rosenberg viewed the Old Testament as a collection of Jewish myths that should be completely discarded from the German church. He believed the “Jewish” elements of Christianity were later additions by the Apostle Paul, whom he accused of “Judaizing” Jesus’s original message.
Positive Christianity: This movement aimed to replace traditional Christian dogmas with a focus on “racial soul” and “national honor”. It eventually advocated for the removal of the crucifix in favor of the swastika and the Bible in favor of Mein Kampf.
While Rosenberg’s work was widely distributed and popular within the Nazi Party, it was controversial even among other Nazi leaders. Hitler, for instance, found Rosenberg’s anti-Christian mysticism politically inconvenient and maintained a more pragmatic, though equally exploitative, stance toward established churches.
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In his seminal work, Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), Houston Stewart Chamb
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