Eine Studie über die Christentumskritik vom Nationalismus

Abstract

The nationalism is a old and traditional topic, which makes a key term understanding for not only domestic events but also foreign policy. For example man can experience nowadays national conflicts between the religions: christianity and islam, islam and hinduism, islam and buddhism, etc. These incidents let know from time to time, how deep the nationalism in the countries exists. Under the political situation in Eastern Asia, specially China, Korea and Japan, the nationalism makes a great role. We cannot deny, that every state will be influenced from the nationalism. It's the one subject of the most useful terminology understanding world. This study wants to regard german church history in that years 1930, where the nationalism arise acutly in the modern history, and to clear up, how aggressiv the nationalism criticized the german church and how it struck down the church. Under german nationalism activated the so-called national faith movement. But tragically it ended as anti-christianity movement and became finally as a pseudo religion. Here we can find the myth. In mythical foundation the nationalism will emphasize its identity and make very fine method of political manipulation. Indeed german nationalism played a bad role with the help of the nationalsocialism, so that it drove mankind to the world war. In the development to the national identity it fetched the Teuton and Aryan myth and thus dared it the christian faith to change. The nationalism became a total ideology, which suppressed german christian church. With theories from the such myths the nationalist criticized without consideration the german church and faith. Now one is interested in the fact that the relationship between the religion and the myth is age-old. The religion since mankind exercised uncanny influence on the ranges history, politics, culture and society. As Tillich states, the religion is the nature of the culture. And how is the relationship between the religion and the myth? One can say, it is inseparable. The religion makes that for myth and makes that turned around for myth the religion. It is not wrong to state mankind history comes at the border between the religion and the myth. In the german society in the years 1930 the religion and the myth were particularly stated. But here one is not to survey that the religion and the myth the monster transformed, whereby they came themselves with political power into contact. Here that played nationalism a large role: as it were the right-wing extremism. We will certainly recognize that it deforms the christian faith. It wants to become a political religion, so that it has the german nation with total power in its hand. We will find, how the nationalism on the side of right-extreme can make false Weltanschauung. The nationalism, for example in the german church-history 1930, shows us a tragic case.