it was doomed from the start. they didn't like hearing that the ot was subversive jewshit. > on november 13, 1933, some 20,000 supporters of the german christian movement filled the arena, which was decorated with swastikas and other nazi material. they came to hear a series of speakers, headlined by local high school religion teacher and german christian leader dr. reinhold krause. > krause denounced rabbi paul, whose scapegoat- and inferiority-theology had led to an un-national socialist desire to cling to a kind of salvation egotism. similarly, krause condemned jewish traces in hymnody and liturgy, decrying the intrusion of hebrew words into german worship. we want to sing songs that are free from any israelite-isms, he demanded, adding: we want to free ourselves from the language of canaan.  in what became a notorious section of his speech, krause demanded liberation from the old testament with its jewish reward-and-punishment morality, with its stories of cattle-dealers and pimps > the speech was widely criticized by protestant clergy, especially for its radical rejection of the old testament as scripture. the ensuing controversy led to a mass of clerical resignations from the german christian camp and sparked an ecclesiastical opposition movement that grew into the confessing church.
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