[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Nice try at rewriting history but it won't wash.

[Arlo]
No rewriting at all. Even the simplest review of the historical 
record, which any one can do at their leisure, demonstrates that the 
Nazi regime was far from "atheist". As I said, it doesn't take much 
reading (start with Shirer's monumental "Rise and Fall of the Third 
Reich") to see this.

Hitler could have said anything he wanted about the swastika, it is 
still a fact they chose a religious symbol, and then overlapped this 
symbol with nationalistic colors, "those revered colors expressive of 
our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honor 
to the German nation" (Hitler, Wikidia)

As for Hitler himself, Wikipedia has a good overview on the topic of 
Hitler and Religion 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs)

A segment follows.

"In Hitler's belief God created a world in which different races 
fought each other for survival as depicted by Arthur de Gobineau. The 
"Aryan race," supposedly the bearer of civilization, is allocated a 
special place: "What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence 
and the reproduction of our race ... so that our people may mature 
for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the 
universe. ... Peoples that bastardize themselves, or let themselves 
be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence."

You can try to paint Nazism as "athestic" all you want, but the 
historical record shows it differently.