"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)
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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That may be. It was certainly demagoguery. But, personally, I wouldn’t take his antipathy to the Judeo-Christian ethos as evidence that he rejected theism.
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Everything I've read of him, and by him, has suggested to me that he was sceptical of religion in general. He was possibly a believer in some kind of cosmic providence, but such belief was untethered from belief in gods. Seems he worshipped ideals rather than divine beings.
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