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[Dill]

(06-19-2017, 03:31 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: What about being an atheist would stop people from being a national socialist? Atheist just means they don't believe there's a God. It has nothing to do with a political view.

Well, atheists are usually materialists (in the philosophical sense). They don't believe in a spiritual/supernatural realm.

National socialists, on the other hand, are idealists. They are all about "spirit"; many were and are Christian; some German Nazis were into the occult or rejected Christianity for "volkisch" culture which expressed the eternal Spirit of the German nation and its DESTINY.  Also, Nazi Germany was not a "secular" state in the sense the US and France are. Lutheranism was the established the church, the one proper volkisch expression of Christianity. Hitler was Catholic and so Catholicism was accommodated. E.g., SS soldiers were allowed to take confession. Catholic Bishops swore allegiance to the German state. Hitler urged SS recruits to read St. Ignatius Loyola to understand how to found a disciplined order. Hitler expresses admiration for Catholicism in Mein Kampf--though not for qualities the US Church wants to be admired for.

In Nazi Germany there might have been an atheist opportunist here and there, once the Nazis had seized power and to get along they had to go along. But atheists generally reject spiritual politics. Atheist materialism, openly expressed in Nazi circles then and now, would mark one as Marxist and/or "Jewish."