Mit Brennender Sorge continued

http://http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_14031937_mit-brennender-sorge_en.html

Note the under referenced lines which speak volumes. The dark destiny alluded to as pre Christian is contrasted to the light of the wisdom of God quoted in an apocryphal work accepted by the Catholic church as canonical text. We can "divinize" any man made creed to an idolatrous level and make it an idol thereby. He defines here the nature and attributes of God in contradistinction to an erroneous depiction of God in the pagan context. It's so much about purposefully erroneous ideology. There shall be no rival Gods beside me. Do nations stumble into concepts of a national God or are they purposefully created? These errors of an aggressive paganism are deemed pernicious and not accidental ,they are never such and are equivalent or tantamount to blasphemy. This papal bull is worded in the strongest language possible and is the most excoriating attack on Nazism ever produced to that time, and the author is Pius XII(then Cardinal Pacelli) commissioned by and in the name of Pius XI.

Whoever follows that so-called pre-Christian Germanic conception of
substituting a dark and impersonal destiny for the personal God, denies thereby
the Wisdom and Providence of God who "Reacheth from end to end mightily, and
ordereth all things sweetly" (Wisdom viii. 1). Neither is he a believer in God.
8. Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of
State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human
community - however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things
- whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to
an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and
created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of
life which that faith upholds.

Beware, Venerable Brethren, of that growing abuse, in speech as in writing, of
the name of God as though it were a meaningless label, to be affixed to any
creation, more or less arbitrary, of human speculation. Use your influence on
the Faithful, that they refuse to yield to this aberration. Our God is the
Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity
of Persons, tri-personal in the unity of divine essence, the Creator of all
existence. Lord, King and ultimate Consummator of the history of the world, who
will not, and cannot, tolerate a rival God by His side.

None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe, King and Legislator of all nations before whose immensity they are "as a drop of a bucket" (Isaiah xI, 15).
12. The Bishops of the Church of Christ, "ordained in the things that appertain to God (Heb. v, 1) must watch that pernicious errors of this sort, and consequent practices more pernicious still, shall not gain a footing among their flock. It is part of their sacred obligations to do whatever is in their power to enforce respect for, and obedience to, the commandments of God, as these are the necessary foundation of all private life and public morality; to see that the rights of His Divine Majesty, His name and His word be not profaned; to put a stop to the blasphemies, which, in words and pictures, are multiplying like the sands of the desert; to encounter the obstinacy and provocations of those who deny, despise and hate God, by the never-failing reparatory prayers of the Faithful, hourly rising like incense to the All-Highest and staying His vengeance.

No faith in God can for long survive pure and unalloyed without the support of faith in Christ. "No one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Luke x. 22). "Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent" (John xvii. 3). Nobody, therefore, can say: "I believe in God, and that is enough religion for me," for the Savior's words brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also" (1 John ii. 23).