A religion for example which, under the rule of pure justics, is to be transformed into historical knowledge, a religion which is to be thoroughly known in a scientific way, will at the end of this path also be annihiliated. The reason is that the historical audit always brings to light so much taht is false, crude, inhuman, absurd, violent, that the attitude of pious illusion, in which alone all that wants to live acna life, is necessarily dispelled: only with love, however, only surrounded by the shadow of the illusion of love, can man create, taht is, only with an unconditional faith in something perfect and righteous.
in other words, religion as historical objective living constricts us from being human (from love w/o illusions, or even shadows of illusions).
...What one can learn from Christianity, that as a result of a historicizing treatment it has become blase and unnatural until finally a completely historical, that is, just treatment has resolved it into pure knowledge about Christianity and so has annihilated it, all this one can study in everything that has life: that it ceases to live when it has been dissected completely and lives painfully and becomes sick once one begins to practise historical dissection on it.
For the theologian, dissection ought to be a process of embedding truth within the inner being of man, not a callous dismembering of God's extended hand. The depths God can hardly be attained by feeble minds of man who chooses to understand God on his own terms through reason. The wisdom of God is foolishness to Man.
Just imagine a few such modern biographers transferred to the birthplace of Christianity or the Lutheran Reformation; their sober pragmatizing curiosity might just have sufficed to make impossible every ghostly "actio in Distans (Action at a distance): or the most miserable animal can prevent the genesis of the mightiest oak by swallowing the acorn. Every living thing needs to be surrounded by an atmosphere, a mysterious circle of mist: if one robs it of this veil, if one condemns a religion, an art, a genius to orbit as a star without an atmosphere: then one should not wonder about its rapidly becoming withered, hard and barren. That is just how it is with all things great indeed,
"which without some madness ne'er succeed" (Hans Sachs sings this line in Act III of Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg).
This is to say that we must retain a distance, a gap, a veil an atmosphere, a mystery...in order for our natural objvective tendencies to surrender to the immeasureable expanse (outward and inward) of God's kingdom.
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