when faced with the great social problems of the age christianity proved to be inert and impotent. but at the same time jewry waa able to furnish its own race with faith. not faith in god, since many jews were apparently relinquishing their creed, but faith in a fanatical political nationalism. on the other hand, the christian" revolution .. failed to complete its mission on earth, le, to support the humble against their persecutors and so achieve social justice through love and not through hatred. by the nineteenth oentury christianity had already <become more a formality than a living creed. it could not hope to match the modern conception of christ's revolution against the idea of the marxist revolution. the papal encyclicals rerum novarum and quadragesimo anno were only theoretical interpretations of the attitude adopted by socialism and by the liberal state-system. christ's church militant did not fight as ardently as it should bave done. it conveniently resigned to falling back on christ's well-known maxim, .. my kingdom is not of this world n, whereas marxism stressed the conception of a physical salvation on this earth. this latter idea, of course, was entirely of jewish origin. jehovah himself, as well as e u a and nehemiah, those extollers of racial purity, had surely promised this very thing, i.e. redemption on this earth, the wealth of the world through the gates -of jerusalem, the eighteen hours' working week and welfare state. the marxist promise was also redemption on earth, but behind the screen of promises stood jewish nationalism, because the marxist leaders knew that the achievement of what they called redemption meant also the establishment of the jewish world-kingdom. christianity was unable to unite and so to follow up the social conception of christ's revolution on the other band, jewry remained undivided in the racial and spiritual unity of its four-thousand-year- old .. nazism ".
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