Ebook: Christless Christianity

The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews was published early in 1909, and before theyear was out its author was being requisitioned by dissidents from Christianityof the most incongruous types as a promising instrument for the generalanti-christian propaganda. Few more remarkable spectacles have ever beenwitnessed than the exploitation throughout Germany in the opening months of1910 of this hyper-idealistic metaphysician, disciple of von Hartmann andconvinced adherent of the "Philosophy of the Unconscious," by an Alliance thedeclared basis of whose organization is a determinate materialism. As, underthe auspices of the Monistenbund, hemade his progress from city to city, lecturing and debating, he drew atidal-wave of sensation along with him. A violent literary war was inaugurated.It seemed as if all theological Germany were aroused.