So the German Christians redrew the doctrines of the faith to fit the worldview of the Nazis: an Aryan Jesus; no Old Testament in the Bible, at least not as an authentic part of the canon; the elimination of the Jew Paul and all his letters; and a watered-down New Testament that would present Germans with a Germanic Christ who fought the Jews in the same way as the Nazis. German Christians stood shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis and saw no contradiction between faith in Christ and faith in Hitler, so long as they were free to interpret faith in Christ according to the new realities in
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