Its overt statement of anti-Christian sentiment made it difficult to give Rosenberg any position of prominence when the Nazis ascended to power. Even in their stronghold Hamburg only 0.49% of the inhabitants identified as belonging to the anti-Christian neopagan faith movement (in 1937), whereas the German Christians and their Positive Christianity had a strong standing. Many of the attacks on the book after its 1930 publication came from its explicit anti-Christian message. Rosenberg wrote two supplements to the work, replying to Catholic and Protestant critics. In the first, "On the Dark Men of Our Times: A Reply to Critics of the Myth of the Twentieth Century", he accused Catholics of attempting to destroy the national character by promoting separatism within Catholic parts of the country. His second reply, "Protestant Pilgrims to Rome: The Treason Against Luther and the Myth of the Twentieth Century", argued that modern Lutheranism was becoming too close to Catholicism.