> --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > ><snip>
> But no, that would kill some of Hitlers menace, and > that is what these people can't seem to grasp hence all the extra > things he has to have been doing/possessed by etc. to justify the > terrible reality of him. And that is this; He was just a man. My question (other than pointing out new age elements in and during formative years of the Third Reich) was whether Hitler was involved in what we might loosely term spiritual or transformational practices. Like we are. Part of which he like symbols. Marek likes symbols too, as to some others here. Does you believe such practice make us "special"? If not, why would such practices make others believe that for Hitler? A premise, perhaps of your question, is that Hitler is THE example of "the most evil". And that we and being ordinary as was he, could wander into that space. I have no issue with the latter. But IMO, Hitler has had a PR dept working overtime to cultivate this "most evil" image. Bad, bad man, yes. But by what claim to being "most evil"? Mao and Stalin each killed, I think, upwards to 100 million. And barbarians have lived in all ages, killing higher %'s of population than Hitler. So on the scoreboard of those killed, Hitler was quite down the list. Or was it his anti-semitism -- more broadly, his strong prejudice against certain groups of people? Again, hardly a unique trait in the ancient, middle or even modern age. America was quite the anti-semitic nation up until 50- 70 years ago. And still has strong remnants today. And what demonic most evil person wrote these words? "Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them. .... Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security. ... However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath. ... Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts? ... Alas, it cannot be anything but the terrible wrath of God which permits anyone to sink into such abysmal, devilish, hellish, insane baseness, envy, and arrogance. If I were to avenge myself on the devil himself I should be unable to wish him such evil and misfortune as God's wrath inflicts on the Jews, compelling them to lie and to blaspheme so monstrously, in violation of their own conscience. Anyway, they have their reward for constantly giving God the lie." http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html None other than the father of the Reformation, and founder of Lutheran church, Martin Luther. Was Mein Kampf more rabid than this?
