"Dr. Adam … assures: "When the catholic priest spreads the word of Christ, then it is not a mere man who preaches, but Christ himself." By this, the self-deification of the priest has been elevated into a dogma which certainly contains the height of arrogance in the view that if anywhere a leading personality "elevated his own poor self into a bearer of Christ's message" the church would at once have to utter its anathema over him: "And it would utter this anathema, even if an angel who came from heaven taught otherwise than has been accepted from the apostles." (Adam) The last elimination of human self-reliance in favour of an unreal office is perfected in the sacraments: "The sacramental blessing is not produced by the personal moral and religious efforts of the receiver of them, but far more through the objective completion of the sacramental token itself." With this, the annihilation of the personality is demanded, its valuelessness as "religious" doctrine is announced. In the midst of a people who had placed honor – personal honor, family honor, race honor, national honor – above all else as the midpoint of life, the open broadcasting of such a demand would never have been able to be carried through. This has only been possible through the skilled replacing of the concept of honor by that of "love", followed by humility and devotion. That this "sacramental token" is represented as having been "established" by Jesus himself, should be noted only as a small proof of with what lack of concern "history" is formed and "structures of religion" are built. It is self-evident that these ideas of a doctrine aiming at magic could not be maintained in such barren representation in Europe even after the denial of honor as a guiding idea."