Nazi Church Uses Sword S Jan 4 1942 Copyright by the New York Times BERNE, Switzerland, Jan. 3 Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, long the antireligious polemist of modern Germany and the protagonist of the New National church, has released program which also will form the tenets of the religion of national socialism. The riazi religion is founded this time not on the worship of Wotan and Valhalla, dear to the memory of General Erich von Ludendorff, but, surprisingly enough, in view of his past lambasting of Christianity and its teachings, on a partial worship of God whose works are eternal. Briefly, but succinctly, he outlines the organization and the teachings of the church in the following phrases for which, as the socialist paper Volksrecht points out, one needs to be no ecclesiast to draw his own conclusion. Church Serves State 1. The national reich church specifically demands the immediate turning over to its possession all churches and chapels within the reich's quarters to become national churches. 2. The German people have no call to serve the national reich church, but that church itself is called to serve its single doctrine race and people. 3. The domain of the national reich church is limited by the territorial frontiers of the reich and its colonies. 4. The national reich church will oblige no German to adhere to its ranks. It is, however, ready to do all in its power to include in its ranks every German soul. All other churches or religious associations, above all, those based on international bodies or directed from abroad, will not be tolerated in Germany by the national reich church. Opposes Christianity 5. The national reich church is immutably fixed in its one objective: To destroy that Christian belief imported into Germany in the unfortunate year 800, but whose tenets conflict with both the heart and mentality of the German. 6. Those structural alterations will be carried out on existing churches in the reich as to their confiscation, for they are the living monuments of German culture and development. As German property they are not only to be appreciated, but also to be kept up. 7. In the national reich church there will be no erudites, nor pastors, nor chaplains, nor religious orders, only the national orators of the reich will be allowed to speak. 8. Services of the national reich church will be held only at night; they will be held on Saturday night with festive illumination. 9. In the national reich church, German men and women, boys and girls, must recognize God and His eternal work. Confiscates Other Property 10. The national reich church will unceasingly pursue its efforts to attach itself to the state to which it will submit as a loyal servant. For this reason the national reich church demands that all church property belonging to all confessions shall be immediately handed over to the state. It wishes that in the future no church of whatever sect be allowed to acquire or possess or receive by legacy any parcel of German soil, however small it be, for it is not the church which conquered and pursued and tilled the land, but the German people. 11. Excluded from becoming orators in the national church are all who today or in the future attempt by any means whatsoever to perpetuate the Christian faith, for they are not only liars to themselves, but also to the German people to whom they lie today merely to retain their facile. 12. Orators of the national church will be assimilated to the category of state functionaries under whose laws they will live. Orders End of Bible 13. The national reich church demands the immediate cessation of printing of the Bible, as well as its dissemination throughout 1. The national reich church demands the immediate cessation of printing of the Bible, as well as its dissemination throughout the reich and colonies. All Sunday papers with any religious content shall also be suppressed. 14. The national reich church shall see that the importation of the Bible and other religious works shall be made impossible into the reich territory. 2. The national reich church decrees that the most important document of all time therefore the guiding document of the German people is the book of our fuehrer, Mein Kampf. It recognizes that this book contains the principles of the purist ethnic morals under which the German people must live. 16. The national reich church will see to it that this book spreads its active forces among the entire population and all Germans live by it. Bans Religious Objects 17. The national reich church stipulates that the future editions of Mein Kampf shall contain its present number of pages and contents unmodified. 18. The national reich church will remove from the altars of all churches the Bible, the cross and religious objects. 19. In their place will be set that which must be venerated by the German people and, therefore, is by God, our most saintly book, Mein Kampf, and to the left of this a sword. 20. The orators of the national reich church during their services, to the best of their consciences and their knowledge, will explain to their hearers the contents of this book. 21. In the national reich church there will be no remission of sins; its tenet is that, once committed, a sin is irrevocable and will implacably be punished by the laws of nature and in this world. Oath for Parents 22. The national reich church does not recognize the rite of baptism of a German child by water in the name of the holy ghost. 23. Parents of a new born German babe will swear an oath before the altar of the church in the following words: The husband: I swear before God this sacred oath; that I . . .father of this child, and my wife, are proven descendants of the Aryan race. As father I swear to bring up this child in the German spirit for the German people. The wife: I swear before God this sacred oath; that I . . . have had a child of my husband and that he is the father of that child. I, its mother, am of proven Aryan descent. As mother, I swear to bring up this child in the German spirit for the German people. On the basis of this oath will the new born be accepted as a German child; he will receive a diploma (birth certificate) naming him a German citizen. Outlaws Baptism 24. The national reich church rejects the rite of confirmation, and above it the rite of baptism, and forbids instruction in catechism, communion and the instruction of precommunicants: The place of spiritual instruction for youth is and will remain the family, the school and the German youth camps. 25. To solemnize the conclusion of the school year the national reich church stipulates that this shall be a day of youth. This day shall fall on Good Friday, and on that day only chiefs of youth organizations shall be allowed to speak in the national reich churches. 26. Marriage of German men and women in the church shall consist of an oath of fidelity spoken with the right hand touching the sword on the altar. There will be no kneeling to take any oath or to perform any reverence, as this action is undignified to a German. 27. The tenth day before Whitsun is designated the day of the family. One Religious Festival 28. The national reich church refuses to recognize the usual days of penitence and prayer. Only one religious festival will be allowed the day on which the national reich church was founded.