[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. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
