Have you read Mein Kampf? It’s littered with references to god
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Dave, meet Ian Kershaw, perhaps the preeminent biographer of Adolf Hitler. This is from his 1999 book, "Hitler: A Biography." (Remember, Mein Kampf was not just an autobiography/manifesto, but a document for a public, CHRISTIAN, audience...and was written in 1923/4)pic.twitter.com/dMQeFXXBE1
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OTOH, Hitler clearly abandoned Christianity. However, the Nazi regime was very cult-like, and, although I'm not a historian, I see a lot of nature worship in Hitler's rhetoric. The "Germanic heroic world view" also had a lot of religion-like elements.
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For some elements...like Himmler. But not Hitler. He and most of the upper leadership thought Himmler was nuts. Hitler was an atheist and the cult of personality around him was different than a religion.
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Hitler being an athiest is open to debate but he certainly used religion to his advantage. His first first treaty was with the Catholic Church. I imagine that’s where he got some negative feelings about them.
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Replying to @moralitymartyr @gorskon and
No. Hitler viewed Christianity as a Jewish invention whose teachings about morality, kindness, etc was another way in which Jews weakened the societies in which they lived. The Concordat with the Catholic Church didn't figure. That was pure pragmatism to prevent criticism.
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On that point ok. That’s one perspective. I think he was the religious zealot exemplar.
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Zealot, absolutely. I think you raise a more interesting point about the differences/similarities between fanaticism and religion. For example, I don't think Hitler believed in any higher power that he was answerable to or that dictated appropriate modes of behavior.
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Dr. Beorn, I do understand he despised established Christian ideology and the Jews of course but to say he was an atheist? It makes no sense based on his actions. It seems he thought something was on his side. Whether “providence” or “universal will” sounds like faith to me.
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Hitler had full faith in Hitler. But, I would argue, he certainly was not bound by any higher power. Perhaps a vague sense of "History" in the Hegelian sense or "fate," but I think those are fundamentally different from religion. Biological determinism certainly is.
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Biological determinism is not incompatible with religion. Just ask a creationist.
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True. Creationists would take that credit. That’s their ultimate strategy it would seem. Your point muddies and deflects from the original statement made by Dr. Beorn, that I disagree with, that Hitler was an atheist.
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