Kulturkampf

Now, granted, and yes, Germany's about one-third Roman Catholic, but...

Bismarck's Kulturkampf was tremendously effective in basically rendering the German state and the civil service that constituted that state at a level of executive enforcement, the same thing as decision-making, and become very protestant by design and also sectarian challenges aside and i i don't minimize those i mean germany was literally ground zero of the 30 years war this was not like a minor thing but there it was despite the regional attachments to germans and despite you know the kind of several populations who are um possessed of discrete cultural forms, you know, like a Swabian is not a Prussian is not a Bavarian, but there is like a German identity, like a Deutsch, like racial identity, if you will, that is not a British race.

Okay.

There's constituent elements of great Britain, but I, nobody would argue to the contrary.

But the whole program, for all its democratic clang, is tainted through and through by the Lasallian sect's servile belief in the state, or, what is no better, by a democratic belief in miracles, or rather it is a compromise between these two kinds of belief in miracles, both equally remote from socialism.

If one desired, at this time of the Kulturkampf, to remind liberalism of its old catchwords, it surely could have been done only in the following form.

everyone should be able to attend his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their noses in.

But the Workers' Party ought, at any rate in this connection, to have expressed its awareness of the fact that bourgeois freedom of conscience is nothing but the toleration of all possible kinds of religious freedom of conscience, and that for its part, it endeavours rather to liberate the conscience from the witchery of religion.

In centuries subsequent, the city of Nuremberg endured all the traumatic upheavals wrought by the Protestant Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, and the conflict's long aftermath, ultimately becoming a late-blooming hub of Baroque aesthetic tendencies and high culture.

The peculiar irony of Nuremberg having been the cultural symbolic, if not truly sovereign seat of the Holy Roman Empire, subsequently becoming synonymous with Protestant resistance to the Catholic League, and ultimately attempting to enter into the formal union with the Kingdom of Prussia, a progenitor of Kulturkampf, was not lost on Adolf Hitler.

We've discussed this before.

This was the fight.

Now, granted, and yes, Germany's about one-third Roman Catholic, but...

Bismarck's Kulturkampf was tremendously effective in basically rendering the German state and the civil service that constituted that state at a level of executive enforcement, the same thing as decision-making, and become very protestant by design and also sectarian challenges aside and i i don't minimize those i mean germany was literally ground zero of the 30 years war okay this was not like a minor thing but there it was despite the regional attachments of germans and despite you know the kind of several populations who are um possessed of discrete cultural forms, you know, like a Swabian is not a Prussian is not a Bavarian, but there is like a German identity, like a Deutsch, like racial identity, if you will, that is not a British race.

Okay.

There's constituent elements of great Britain, but I, nobody would argue to the contrary.