"The thing about Nazism, Maoism and Stalinism. They were religions, state religions. Those dictators didn't get rid of God because they hated religion. They got rid of God because they hated the competition." —Bill Maher (or one of his writers)
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I don’t know what the proportions were, but Hitler himself invoked God and Providence many times. Were there atheist Nazis? Yes. Hitler wasn’t one of them. (I’m sure that you know this, but many others don’t.)
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Actually, I'm one of those who believes Hitler was an atheist, and that his few professions of faith were simply acts of demagoguery. I base this view on the fact that he frequently expressed hatred of Judaeo-Christian beliefs in private, and his anti-Christian policies.
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Nevertheless, the ultimate plan of the Nazis was to abolish Christianity. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/weekinreview/word-for-word-case-against-nazis-hitler-s-forces-planned-destroy-german.html …
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