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Letter by the GERMAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION |
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When
it comes to the construction of our democratic basic fundamental order,
the individual citizen is quite aware that our governments at state
and republic level are subject to the pressure of various, often financially
strong interest groups, which act especially through political parties. |
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The
parties, which at present steer the fortunes of the Federal Government
of Germany, do this under the power and financial influence respectively
of the German Lutheran Church EKD, as well as its multilaterally acting
Bertelsmann Concern – first and foremost their medieval missionary
grubby magazines Stern & SPIEGEL. |
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Therefore
the members of these parties SPD and GRÜNE should be aware that,
because of their ideological and materialistic attachment to the German
Lutheran Church and its missionary religious-power political manipulating
media concern they find themselves in the traditionally hostile camp
of our hereditary German art and cultural tradition, and human dignity
in general. |
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As
you will have noticed, we understand German culture mainly to be our
own, hereditary German culture and, during the Christian epoch becoming
so ethically impoverished, only the cultural part which is borrowed
from our pre-Christian, truly ethically great German cultural tradition. |
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The
systematic development of our “super natural”, purely ethical
abilities, which the Christian Church sullied over many centuries from
abroad as “heathen mania”, and for whose handing down millions
of our ancestors as the guardians and keepers of our hereditary German
artistic and cultural heritage lost their lives under the influence
of the Church, also joins this traditional German artistic and cultural
tradition inherited from our forefathers. |
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Just
as the young Germans among us understandably reject being made responsible
for the crimes in the Third Reich, the last thing we want to do is to
accuse the Christian Church for their former destruction of German art
and culture. |
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But
we should not close our present free, critical and open mind to the
important fact that this so-called “heathenism” of our German
ancestors – that is their
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“Do
not cry, do not be angry, but understand!” Spinoza |
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supposed
“idolatry” -, as we know today, |
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was
by no means a “religion” or a “belief” and/or
a “world-view”, but a very practical and extremely deliberate
ethical technology for the systematic realisation of natural human dignity
– which then also |
“What
is of gold, does not burn, it only refines itself in the blazing ardour.” Pestalozzi |
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explains
their unwavering resistance against the persecutions. |
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