Friday, February 22, 2008

Hitler Wasn’t an Atheist



It’s perhaps somewhat ironic that doltish Christian apologists insist on characterizing Adolph Hitler as an “atheist” when, in fact, he enthusiastically advocated an alternative “religion peculiar to our race”; a "religion of blood" that would “throw off the veneer of Christianity” and be devoted to the occult mysteries of blood and soil (nationalism). Far from being an atheist, Hitler was a self-declared “enemy of intelligence” and might be more properly described as a pagan deist. The notion that Christianity is little more than a superficial veneer that masks these powerful emotional undercurrents of irrationality and unreason in the guise of a different set of ritualistic obsverances is, as they say, “provocative”…