"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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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.










