Positive Christianity

You don't separate anymore after that, and that's intolerable.

So the goal was how do you get German Christians, many of whom are very serious and devout in their faith, how do you get them off the Christianity and onto Nazism? And what, uh, what Rosenberg built and is basically laid out in, in many ways and first really described was this thing called positive Christianity, which is derived from something that, uh, other German poets like Goethe had believed in.

It's also written in the Nazi program from literally a decade earlier.

The twenty-five point program, point twenty-four says that the religion of the Reich will be positive Christianity without ever specifying what it is.

But the idea was going to be that we're gonna recast Jesus as misrepresented by the churches.

He's actually a anti-Jewish Aryan hero in the Near East and the Levant who's been mischaracterized and turned into this character of passive power, that his redemptive story is that he was, was, was, was put to death and r- died and was, was resurrected on the third day.

The point is that his job was to take this, you know, one-third of the population, so roughly thirty million Catholics.

Two-thirds of the population is Protestants, and so nearly sixty million Protestants, plus or minus, you know, a few million here or there, however that works out.