To: Alberta's Child
It's a strange connection between Hitler and "atheist extremeism".
That description could rightly be applied to Lenin and Stalin and Mao, and is a part of communist ideology.
Hitler may have personally been an atheist but he tired to co-opt the Christian churches in Germany, not ban them. The Nazi party was not officially atheist, as the Communist Party (pretty much all of them) were.
4 posted on
09/16/2010 11:16:57 AM PDT by
Jack Black
( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
To: Jack Black
Hitler may have personally been an atheist Hitler was an occultist and Nazism was an occultic ideology.
6 posted on
09/16/2010 11:20:43 AM PDT by
fso301
To: Jack Black
It’s not a strange connection at all. The pope’s point was that the end result is the same.
7 posted on
09/16/2010 11:22:37 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: Jack Black
That description could rightly be applied to Lenin and Stalin and Mao, and is a part of communist ideology..
Absolutely. But the Pope is talking to us in the UK, and (like a gracious guest) is commending our part in the fight against the Nazis.
If he'd been visiting Finland, I guess he would have used the USSR as an example instead.
16 posted on
09/16/2010 11:49:59 AM PDT by
agere_contra
(...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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