"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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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Except that Nazism didn’t get rid of God at all. Nazism utilized belief in God for its own purposes. (“Got mit uns” is German for “God with us.”)pic.twitter.com/WbMoolCx6r
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Replying to @JoelMCurzon
Yes. The Nazi party was split between atheists, pagans, and Christians. Most of the top brass were atheists or pagans, and despised Christianity as an invention of Jewry, but they knew that a large proportion of the German populace were Christian so used God as propaganda tool .
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
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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Replying to @JoelMCurzon
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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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
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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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
I think he may have thought of that “providence” as God. I agree with you about his attitude toward organized religion, and his hostility to Judeo-Christian notions especially.
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