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In reply to the discussion: Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology [View all]yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)48. I guess maybe I must have some kind of reading disorder?
From your same reliable sources:
Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs have been a matter of debate; the wide consensus of historians consider him to have been irreligious and anti-Christian. In light of evidence such as his vocal rejection of the tenets of Christianity as a teenager, numerous private statements to confidants denouncing Christianity as a harmful superstition, and his strenuous efforts to reduce the influence and independence of Christianity in Germany after he came to power, Hitler's major academic biographers conclude that he was irreligious and an opponent of Christianity. Historian Laurence Rees found no evidence that "Hitler, in his personal life, ever expressed belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church". Hitler's remarks to confidants, as described in the Goebbels Diaries, the memoirs of Albert Speer, and transcripts of Hitler's private conversations recorded by Martin Bormann in Hitler's Table Talk, are further evidence of his irreligious and anti-Christian beliefs; these sources record a number of private remarks in which Hitler ridicules Christian doctrine as absurd, contrary to scientific advancement, and socially destructive.
While a small number of writers accept publicly stated views as genuine expressions of his spirituality, the vast majority believe that Hitler was skeptical of religion generally, but recognized that he could only be elected and preserve his political power if he feigned a commitment to and belief in Christianity, which the overwhelming majority of Germans believed in.[13] Hitler himself told confidants that his reluctance to make public attacks on the Church was not a matter of principle, but a pragmatic political move. In his private diaries, Goebbels wrote in April 1941 that though Hitler was "a fierce opponent" of the Vatican and Christianity, "he forbids me to leave the church. For tactical reasons."
Citations, sourcing and much, much more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
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Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology [View all]
yallerdawg
Oct 2017
OP
what is wrong with reality, I wonder? Why always the need for something else?
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2017
#2
my wife and I have been saying that for many years. We quite love reality - despite it's occasional
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2017
#5
Well, what's so wrong with this world and reality that we need to be saved by Jesus?
trotsky
Oct 2017
#6
Forgive me, but you say "ovens" and I can't think of anything but the Holocaust.
Pope George Ringo II
Oct 2017
#31
It got sidetracked with some ignorant slander accusing atheists of committing the Holocaust
Pope George Ringo II
Oct 2017
#47
Sounds good to me! Religion is all fables, politics, superstitions and many out for money! n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2017
#63