[Antoninus]

Take what comfort you can in the fact that you are not alone in your view of the Godhead.

LOL. You lose via Godwin's Law.

Amusingly, you and I both know that Nazism was hardly a Christian ideology--or even a deist ideology. It was primarily atheistic with a healthy dash of weirdo mysticism thrown in for good measure.

The history of the 20th century is largely the history of bloodthirsty atheists figuring out new and novel ways of destroying their fellow man.

[MrB]

The Fascists’ “religion” was installing the state as the “deity” of the people.

The atheists of the 20th century sought truth solely in “reason”. We see what that got us, as you mentioned, hundreds of millions dead, because “reason” dictates that a better society can be created by forcing it on the people from the top down.

And what’s a few hundred million dead if those entities are only going to exist for about 60-70 years anyway?

[steve-b]

"Gott" has some other meaning in German?

Anyhoo... "target a disliked religon"... check! "kill 'em if they don't get out of Dodge fast enough"... check! Yep, the correspondences track perfectly.