TexasScientist said:
Sam Lowry said:
TexasScientist said:
Oldbear83 said:
" a chosen master race" The person most famous for that sort of phrase was opposed to Christianity in preference of secular humanism, you know.
I just repeated Sam's reference, which just as appropriately applies to Jacob. Although, Adolph's opposition to
Christianity is sketchy and a stretch. Christianity was not opposed to Adolph.
The scientism of Hitler and the religion of Christianity were as opposed as could be. Fascism and communism are what results from a misplaced faith in science as the arbiter of good and evil.
Hardly, fascism and communism have nothing to do with science as the arbiter of good and evil. The Catholic Church was essentially ambivalent, and in some cases supported Nazi Germany. The church certainly aided in hiding and moving war criminals after the war. How did the Church resist fascism in Germany or Italy. What war criminal of the Third Reich did the Catholic Church excommunicate? It is my understanding none. Yet the church will excommunicate a little girl, and a doctor for performing an abortion after she was raped, and it won't excommunicate the rapist.
Richard Overy,
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia"During the War [Hitler] reflected that in the long run, 'National Socialism and religion will no longer be able to exist together.' Both Stalin and Hitler wanted a neutered religion, subservient to the state, while the slow programme of scientific revelation destroyed the foundation of religious myth."
Richard Overy,
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia"Hitler believed that all religions were now 'decadent'; in Europe it was the 'collapse of Christianity that we are now experiencing.' The reason for the crisis was science."
Richard J. Evans,
The Third Reich at WarHitler believed that in the long run National Socialism and religion would not be able to co-exist, and stressed repeatedly that Nazism was a secular ideology, founded on modern science: "Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition." Germany could not tolerate the intervention of foreign influences such as the Pope and "Priests, he said, were 'black bugs,' 'abortions in black cassocks.'"
Alan Bullock,
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel LivesBullock notes Hitler's use of rhetoric of "Providence" but concludes that Hitler, Stalin and Napoleon all shared the same materialist outlook "based on the nineteenth century rationalists' certainty that the progress of science would destroy all myths and had already proved Christian doctrine to be an absurdity."
Hitler's Table TalkHitler is reported as saying: "The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler