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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 6:34:11 AM
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This has been a debate for decades.

His mother was Catholic and he presented outward Christian views in public speeches and writing, those under his rule certainly believed he was Christian and the Catholic Church honored him as the bee's knees throughout his entire life

However the water gets mudded considering his anti-religious youth, his comments made in private and his desire to weaken the power of the church in Europe. Some comments are unconfirmed but there is a laundry list of Hitler decrying the idiocy of Christian values and believers, as well as viewing the worlds different religions in a very atheistic manner of just being tools to guide a population.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler


Do you believe Hitler believed in God? Or do you think he was just an atheist who used his giant atheist brain to manipulate religious people into doing his bidding?

The jury is still out as Historians can't decide if he was Atheist, Christian or neither, but what does CE think?
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Sayoria
04/25/17 6:35:49 AM
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Nope, his views were Christian.
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04/25/17 6:36:23 AM
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GOATSLAYER
04/25/17 6:44:25 AM
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Obviously not. He believed in a master race which implies that he thought that Germans were chosen or designed by a higher power to be superior to other races. You can't have a belief like that if you're an atheist.
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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 6:47:50 AM
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GOATSLAYER posted...
Obviously not. He believed in a master race which implies that he thought that Germans were chosen or designed by a higher power to be superior to other races. You can't have a belief like that if you're an atheist.

Are you so sure?

The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature, based on the soul.

Atheists including the famous Richard Dawkins would be the first to point that while Hitler was immoral, he was not wrong. If you intentionally bred fast runners, you will end up with generations of off-spring who are faster at running. If you breed tall people, you will end up with generations of taller off-spring.

The idea of people being superior to others on a DNA level, is an idea that rejects every mainstream God. Who has chosen people and his own desires
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GOATSLAYER
04/25/17 6:50:40 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
Obviously not. He believed in a master race which implies that he thought that Germans were chosen or designed by a higher power to be superior to other races. You can't have a belief like that if you're an atheist.

Are you so sure?

The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature, based on the soul.

Atheists including the famous Richard Dawkins would be the first to point that while Hitler was immoral, he was not wrong. If you intentionally bred fast runners, you will end up with generations of off-spring who are faster at running. If you breed tall people, you will end up with generations of taller off-spring.

The idea of people being superior to others on a DNA level, is an idea that rejects every mainstream God. Who has chosen people and his own desires

He went on a mission to wipe out other races. It seems like he felt like they were chosen by God to cleanse the world of "those who weren't worthy".
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Kazi1212
04/25/17 8:07:33 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
Obviously not. He believed in a master race which implies that he thought that Germans were chosen or designed by a higher power to be superior to other races. You can't have a belief like that if you're an atheist.

Are you so sure?

The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature, based on the soul.

Atheists including the famous Richard Dawkins would be the first to point that while Hitler was immoral, he was not wrong. If you intentionally bred fast runners, you will end up with generations of off-spring who are faster at running. If you breed tall people, you will end up with generations of taller off-spring.

The idea of people being superior to others on a DNA level, is an idea that rejects every mainstream God. Who has chosen people and his own desires


Believing (whether factual or not) certain categories of people having superior genetic attributes doesn't necessarily lead to belief that all people in general shouldn't be treated as equals and with respect as a result. If anything the beliefs such as those of nazi ideology which is fundanentally teleological in nature(I.e. The superior race must cleanse the world of those inferior to them) tend to be religiously motivated(at least in spirit even if not explicitly) where as atheists have a more tautological view of the world, things are the way they are, no value judgments.
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Mal_Fet
04/25/17 8:12:37 AM
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Didn't the Vatican fully support his anti-Jewish policies
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Mystere
04/25/17 8:13:05 AM
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Who gives a shit?
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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 8:13:59 AM
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Kazi1212 posted...
where as atheists have a more tautological view of the world, things are the way they are, no value judgments.

I don't think you can square this cirlce
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Kazi1212
04/25/17 8:17:15 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Kazi1212 posted...
where as atheists have a more tautological view of the world, things are the way they are, no value judgments.

I don't think you can square this cirlce


Not in a perfectly logical nor factual way, more like I'm making an overarching statement which does tend to hold some water. The beliefs of atheists are certainly more tautologically oriented then they are teleologically inclined as religious folks.
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spincr
04/25/17 8:37:19 AM
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He was an occultist if anything. Fucking stupid dumbass polls people make here, sickening.
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Sir Will
04/25/17 9:14:50 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature

HAHAHAHA!!!
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Sinroth
04/25/17 9:16:32 AM
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He probably held some form of religious belief, but who cares? I'm sure we can all agree that religion played an extremely minor role in his ideology, except as one of many rallying points for ethnic Germans.
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Zikten
04/25/17 9:28:10 AM
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he was a pagan. he believed in the germanic gods. there are reports of pagan rituals that his officers did
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Antifar
04/25/17 9:29:34 AM
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Hitler invented atheism
https://twitter.com/search?q=hitler%20invented%20atheism&src=typd
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33
04/25/17 9:30:56 AM
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"We are fighting the Atheistic movement."

He said that. He fucking said that.
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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 9:52:13 AM
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Sinroth posted...
I'm sure we can all agree that religion played an extremely minor role in his ideology,

No we can't agree, historians and sociologists can't agree.

That's the point
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The Admiral
04/25/17 9:58:02 AM
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The Jewish Holocaust was not motivated by religion, it was motivated by ethnic resentment and scapegoating poor economic conditions on the Jewish people. The Nazi rhetoric spinned Jews into the oppressors.

This is very much unlike the Armenian Holocaust (i.e. Armenian Genocide) that happened 30 years prior and was an attempt on part of the Islamic Ottoman Empire to purge all non-Muslims from Turkey (and a fairly successful attempt, at that). That was clearly religious-based genocide.
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33
04/25/17 10:01:17 AM
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Even if Hitler wasn't, his voters were. All he had to do was convince the people that mass genocide was a good thing was to say that God said so. Read any of his speeches and you'll see that most of it's just slobbing God's knob like corn on the cob.
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DawkinsNumber4
04/25/17 10:04:48 AM
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Atheists don't wear these or give them to others to wear.
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ehhwhatever
04/25/17 10:04:57 AM
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Dude he talked to an imaginary horse in a closet.
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33
04/25/17 10:05:57 AM
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DawkinsNumber4 posted...
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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 11:02:57 AM
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Very split results so far
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weapon_d00d816
04/25/17 11:06:22 AM
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He believed in the occult so he wasn't an atheist by most people's familiarity with the term.
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Bio1590
04/25/17 11:47:45 AM
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Wasn't he also a firm believer that Islam would be a better religion for the Germans than Christianity?
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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 11:50:58 AM
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Bio1590 posted...
Wasn't he also a firm believer that Islam would be a better religion for the Germans than Christianity?

According to Albert Speer he said:

, "The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
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ChromaticAngel
04/25/17 11:58:29 AM
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33 posted...
DawkinsNumber4 posted...
T5PDxJo

No I don't have any mittens, why do you ask?

Lmao
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DawkinsNumber4
04/25/17 4:58:10 PM
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33 posted...
DawkinsNumber4 posted...
T5PDxJo

No I don't have any mittens, why do you ask?



It means "God with us".
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DawkinsNumber4
04/25/17 5:01:09 PM
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ehhwhatever posted...
Dude he talked to an imaginary horse in a closet.


Really?
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elysdeon
04/25/17 5:06:07 PM
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If he wasn't an atheist, he certainly wasn't very religious. He used religion as a prop to achieve the ends he desired (as do a lot of leaders).

The overwhelming majority of Germans at the time were definitely not atheists though.
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BallerXRosetta-
04/25/17 5:19:14 PM
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Doesn't matter since people just bring this up to lump Hitler onto the side that's not their own. If he really was an atheist, then that doesn't imply atheists have no morals or some silliness like that. Now for the Christian part: There's a variety of quotes that we can look but they're not consistent. Lots of people like quoting the one about how he likes Christianity. Okay, but then what do we make of the ones that say the opposite like how Christianity is weak compared to religions like Islam? What do we make of the Christians that were sent to concentration camps? Oh, and then there's the whole hating going to church thing. Essentially, he was his own thing so saying that he was Christian/atheist is misleading since people only bring it up to imply that either of these played an important role in shaping his ideology.
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UnfairRepresent
04/25/17 5:21:08 PM
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BallerXRosetta- posted...
Doesn't matter since people just bring this up to lump Hitler onto the side that's not their own.

This feels like projection
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BallerXRosetta-
04/25/17 5:22:02 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
BallerXRosetta- posted...
Doesn't matter since people just bring this up to lump Hitler onto the side that's not their own.

This feels like projection


Idgaf what it feels like. It really doesn't matter lol
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Syko_Darksyde
04/25/17 5:22:25 PM
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I don't know let me go ask him.
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Sinroth
04/26/17 2:38:25 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Sinroth posted...
I'm sure we can all agree that religion played an extremely minor role in his ideology,

No we can't agree, historians and sociologists can't agree.

That's the point


Give me the historiography convincing you of this. I find it pretty straightforward to claim that Nazism and ethnic nationalism were far more important facets of Hitler and his politics.
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FlashOfLight
04/26/17 2:40:49 AM
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He was a Grade-A Freemason, just like the rest of the Theosophist club from which the NAZI party sprang out of.
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MakoReizei
04/26/17 2:42:48 AM
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Zikten posted...
he was a pagan. he believed in the germanic gods. there are reports of pagan rituals that his officers did

this
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Nukleen
04/26/17 2:43:17 AM
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FlashOfLight posted...
He was a Grade-A Freemason

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Funcoland
04/26/17 3:00:27 AM
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Mal_Fet posted...
Didn't the Vatican fully support his anti-Jewish policies


No. While it can be argued the Vatican could have done more, to say they supported Nazi ideals is historically wrong. What could be done was limited, especially since Rome was under the control of facist Italy.
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UnfairRepresent
04/27/17 5:42:20 PM
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Funcoland posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
Didn't the Vatican fully support his anti-Jewish policies


No. While it can be argued the Vatican could have done more, to say they supported Nazi ideals is historically wrong. What could be done was limited, especially since Rome was under the control of facist Italy.

They praised the fuck out of Hitler though
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legendarylemur
04/27/17 5:46:30 PM
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33 posted...
DawkinsNumber4 posted...
T5PDxJo

No I don't have any mittens, why do you ask?

LOOOL Oh god
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iosifsvoboda
04/27/17 5:47:34 PM
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MakoReizei posted...
Zikten posted...
he was a pagan. he believed in the germanic gods. there are reports of pagan rituals that his officers did

this


This
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darkphoenix181
04/27/17 5:47:38 PM
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fascism is historically a mix of atheism and theology

where the state becomes essentially God while also not being God and rejects all other religion

we can see this in North Korea where you cannot pray to God
you can thank glorious leader

but it isn't a religion in NK, it is just atheism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche

Juche (Korean: &#51452;&#52404;, lit. 'subject'; Korean pronunciation: [t&#597;ut&#597;&#688;e]), usually left untranslated,[1] or translated as "self-reliance", is the official state ideology of North Korea, described by the government as Kim Il-sung's "original, brilliant and revolutionary contribution to national and international thought".[2] It says that an individual is "the master of his destiny",[3] that the North Korean masses are to act as the "masters of the revolution and construction", and that by becoming a self-reliant and strong nation one can achieve true socialism.[3]


of course the Nazi did believe in the occult since they dabbled in it

but they did not believe in God
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glitteringfairy
04/27/17 5:55:55 PM
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He was a deedist
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Saloonist
04/27/17 5:57:54 PM
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Sir Will posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature

HAHAHAHA!!!

Look at notions of equality before and after Jesus. You might be surprised.
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UnfairRepresent
04/27/17 5:57:57 PM
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I really don't think Hitler was the masturbating type.

Probably would have been a nicer guy if he was.
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darkphoenix181
04/27/17 5:59:21 PM
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Saloonist posted...
Sir Will posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature

HAHAHAHA!!!

Look at notions of equality before and after Jesus. You might be surprised.


the idea that God died and bled for everyone from the poor to the rich and the low class to the high class does indeed show equality

also that everyone gets to heaven the same exact way and their status has no bearing on it is also equality

but that is Christianity

pagan religions on the other hand have merit basis like Norse was the greatest warriors got to their heaven
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Saloonist
04/27/17 6:03:44 PM
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darkphoenix181 posted...
Saloonist posted...
Sir Will posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
The belief in equality between people tends to be religious in nature

HAHAHAHA!!!

Look at notions of equality before and after Jesus. You might be surprised.


the idea that God died and bled for everyone from the poor to the rich and the low class to the high class does indeed show equality

also that everyone gets to heaven the same exact way and their status has no bearing on it is also equality

but that is Christianity

pagan religions on the other hand have merit basis like Norse was the greatest warriors got to their heaven

How often were women among these warriors? But admittedly I don't know much about the Norse religion.

Among the Greeks and Romans, the life of a slave was nothing. Slaves were by their very position inferior beings whose lives were worthless. Even when Christians kept the institution of slavery, the fundamental equality recognized between a slave and an emperor was accepted.
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glitteringfairy
04/27/17 6:04:13 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I really don't think Hitler was the masturbating type.

Probably would have been a nicer guy if he was.

He should have given it a try
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