"The Roman religious ideas were peculiar to all Aryan peoples. The Jew, on the other hand, knew and knows nothing but the golden calf, which he worships. The Jew lacks any metaphysical conception of religion, his religion is crass materialism, and it is significant that he imagines an afterlife in the lap of Abraham. As a religious community the Jew appears only after Paul; before that the Jew knew only the racial community. Only Paul recognized the expediency of the Jewish propaganda method under the cloak of a religion. By making a supranational Christian religion out of the Aryan protest movement against Judaism in Palestine, the Jew shattered the Roman Empire. With his Christianity, Paul contrasted the Roman state idea with the idea of a supranational empire. Paul proclaimed the equality of all men and one God, and by asserting this, the Roman state power had to fade away
It is significant that Paul could not gain any ground in Athens with his Christian teaching. The Greek view of life was so superior to the Christian one that the Athenians burst out laughing at Paul's teachings. In Rome, however, Paul encountered a mass of millions of uprooted people whom he could win over with his teachings on equality and make them useful for his purposes and goals."
— Adolf Hitler
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