Religion
In reply to the discussion: Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology [View all]Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)You may recall that after your "No True Scotsman" on twisted ideology, you incorrectly included the Third Reich in a list of governments which banned all religion and persecuted its adherents. I've demonstrated why that's wrong by pointing out how you had it backward and the elite SS were actually required to have a religion.
You're now attempting to say something about the only guy in the government not actually subject to the regulation requiring the elite to participate in the very thing you had backwards and said his regime somehow prohibited and persecuted. Even if you were right (you're not), it doesn't do a thing to support your claim that religion was prohibited in a regime which we've already shown actually required it among the elite.
What you have actually produced was a site which concluded (correctly) that you were wrong and that Hitler's religious views were very strange and over time migrated toward completely insane. "Deist" is mentioned, and it's as plausible as anything. You have not actually produced any evidence he was genuinely an atheist, though, because he really wasn't one. And even if you did invent such evidence, we're back to the fact that his murderous elites were required to be religious in any event, so your original mistake is still wrong.
The site also concluded (correctly) that Hitler was among the many dictators who feared competing power bases and was anti-clerical. Heck, Akhenaten was anti-clerical and still managed to invent monotheism, so I'm not sure what this one would prove even if you had a point. Hitler didn't want no religion, but wanted a church under his control and teaching his message, so he's really not much different from Henry VIII on this subject. Abortion, polygamy, that sort of stuff.
Again, the Third Reich was not a hotbed of atheism. Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses were obviously among the worst off, but Atheists were more persecuted than generic christians, so the facts directly contradict what you've been saying. Hurling around baseless slander doesn't change that.