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From: ess4hb@ihuxm.UUCP (m.p. cornell)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Islam, Christianity and Hitler
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 15:37:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 15:37:11 1985
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> Paul Dubuc contributed this as part of his reply to Mr Martillo
> about the logical connection between Luther's hideous attitude
> toward Jews ( postulated cause ) and the Holocaust that occurred
> in Germany 450 years later (postulated effect).
> 
> >>Also, I think Luther's opinion played a relatively minor part with Hitler
> >>compared to Nietzsche, for example (either directly, or indirectly through
> >>men like Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre).  Also, where do you think
> >>Hitler got his ideas about eugenics and social Darwinism?   Was that part
> >>of Luther's fundemental ideology?
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>
> >>Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd
> >>
> >>
> 
> Remember that the Nazi hero Nietzsche was about as hostile an atheist
> as you could dig up back in the 19 th Century.  Just for the record
> let's rerun some quotes that have appeared on the net at an earlier time
> to see where Hitler got his feelings about religion in general and
> Christianity specifically.
> 
> MR ADOLPH HITLER SPEAKS ON RELIGION:
> 
> "The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They
> have no future - certainly none for the Germans. Fascism, if it likes,
> may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not? That will not
> prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and
> annihilating it in Germany....
> 
> A German Church, a German Christianity, is distortion. One is either a
> German or a Christian. You cannot be both...."
> 
> HOW ABOUT THE GERMAN FAITH MOVEMENT:
> 
> Or from Professor Hauer, one of the three leaders of the German Faith
> Movement of the 30's and 40's:
> "We confess the primal religious will of the German people. Through this
> leadership we believe we can find the road to salvation (Heil) for
> ourselves and our people.
> ...The struggle between Christianity and the German faith in the German
> soul is thus an event of unexpected depth."
> 
> And among the officially announced objectives of the GFM was:
> "Therefore necessarily the German Faith Movement denies Christianity. It
> rejects Christianity in every shape or form, because its fundamental
> principles contradict the laws of life of people and race, and are alien
> to what is intrinsically German."
> 
> ************
> 
> Seems like these Nazis put in more time with Fuerbach and Nietzsche
> than they did at the foot of the Old Rugged Cross.    Uh-HUH.
> 
> Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}

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