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Faith & Spirit Quote by Alfred Rosenberg

"Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole"

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A “new faith” that’s “stirring” is Rosenberg selling politics as religion, and he knows exactly why the pitch works: faith doesn’t ask to be proven, it asks to be joined. In one breath he swaps argument for liturgy, inviting listeners to feel history moving under their feet. “Myth of blood” is the tell. He’s not describing ancestry as a fact; he’s consecrating it as a sacred story, the kind that turns contingency into destiny and turns violence into duty.

The line “along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole” is the rhetorical sleight of hand that makes exclusion sound like salvation. Blood becomes both the boundary and the justification; “defending” frames aggression as self-defense; “divine nature” launders racial essentialism into moral grandeur. It’s universalizing language (“man as a whole”) stapled to a tribal premise (“blood”), a move designed to hide the contradiction: you can’t claim to protect humanity by narrowing who counts as human.

Context matters because Rosenberg wasn’t a random soldier riffing about spirituality. As a chief Nazi ideologue, he helped supply the metaphysical soundtrack to a regime that needed more than policies; it needed believers. The quasi-religious cadence is purposeful: if nation becomes church and race becomes sacrament, then dissent becomes heresy, compromise becomes betrayal, and atrocity becomes ritual. The sentence doesn’t just reflect fascism’s aesthetics; it operationalizes them, converting identity into a holy weapon.

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Rosenberg, Alfred. (2026, January 17). Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-a-new-faith-is-stirring-the-myth-of-blood-74425/

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Rosenberg, Alfred. "Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-a-new-faith-is-stirring-the-myth-of-blood-74425/.

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"Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-a-new-faith-is-stirring-the-myth-of-blood-74425/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Alfred Rosenberg (January 12, 1893 - October 16, 1946) was a Soldier from Germany.

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