I think we can all see the outcome of that attitude, before, during, and after Hitler’s time.
The Catholic novelist Walker Percy once said that he thought the survival of the Jews was one of the proofs of God’s existence. If the Nazis had to keep some connection with Christ because of Germany’s Christian heritage, they had to have him stripped of his Jewishness, and the taken out of the context of God’s work through the Jews in the history of salvation. Their “Christ” was cut off from God, which is what they wanted. An idol.
A while back someone here made reference to a book called “Christ Was A Gentile.” I read a little of it. The basic premise was that Christ wasn’t a Jew, since how could anything good, much less the Savior, come from the dirty, rotten, corrupt Jews?
Get rid of the God of Israel, then it’s a short step to getting rid of the moral foundation of the world.
“The Catholic novelist Walker Percy once said that he thought the survival of the Jews was one of the proofs of God’s existence.”
One of the themes of Percy’s novel “The Thanatos Syndrome” is that anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews are among the early warning signs of the ascendency of godless totalitarian “utopias”. First the Jews, eventually the Christians and along the way pretty much anybody who believes in freedom and human dignity. Abortion and child abuse as concurrent pathologies are prominent in the novel as well.