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He rejected Christianity for its universality, for original sin, at least for Germans whom he declared on one occasion were born noble, and for the immortality of the soul.

Indeed, absorbing Christianity enfeebled a people.

Publicly, he affected to deplore Christianity's degeneration owing to Jewish influence.

Following Chamberlain's ideas, he condemned what he called " negative Christianity ," the orthodox beliefs of Protestant and Catholic churches, arguing instead for a so-called " positive " Christianity based on Chamberlain's claim that Jesus was a member of a Nordic enclave resident in ancient Galilee who struggled against Judaism.

For Rosenberg religious doctrine was not important ; what mattered was that a belief should serve the interests of the Nordic race, connecting the individual to his racial nature.

Rosenberg stated that " The general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our ( German ) soul.

" His support for Luther as a great German figure was always ambivalent.