Another German Christian declared that the teaching of “sin and grace . . . was a Jewish attitude inserted into the New Testament” and was simply too negative for Germans at that time: A people15, who, like our own, has a war behind them that they did not want, that they lost, and for which they were declared guilty, cannot bear it, when their sinfulness is constantly pointed out to them in an exaggerated way. . . . Our people has suffered so much under the lie of war guilt that it is the task and duty of the church and of theology to use Christianity to give courage to our people, and not to
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