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To: Doctor Doom
" I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me....the highest and most desirable ideal." (Quote from Mein Kampf)

I don't think he meant "moral ideal." What Hitler was referring to was the clergy's ceremonial leadership position that impressed him so much as a child. Later, as dictator, he constantly attempted to produce spectacles and events that would emulate and replace religious ceremonies in the life of the German people. And of course, the person at the center of these new rites would be - who else but Adolf himself?

86 posted on 01/27/2002 4:28:12 AM PST by livius
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To: livius
You are right on that - I only offered that to refute the assertion that lil' Adolf did not attend church regularly.
100 posted on 01/27/2002 12:54:06 PM PST by Doctor Doom
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To: livius
I don't think he meant "moral ideal." What Hitler was referring to was the clergy's ceremonial leadership position that impressed him so much as a child. Later, as dictator, he constantly attempted to produce spectacles and events that would emulate and replace religious ceremonies in the life of the German people.

An illuminating passage from his "Mein Kampf" describes his viewpoint on religion (and science for that matter)

Mein Kampf


The political leader should not estimate 
the worth of a religion by taking some of its shortcomings 
into account, but he should ask himself whether there be 
any practical substitute in a view which is demonstrably 
better. Until such a substitute be available only fools 
and criminals would think of abolishing the existing 
religion. 

Undoubtedly no small amount of blame for the present 
unsatisfactory religious situation must be attributed to 
those who have encumbered the ideal of religion with 
purely material accessories and have thus given rise to an 
utterly futile conflict between religion and science. In 
this conflict victory will nearly always be on the side of 
science, even though after a bitter struggle, while 
religion will suffer heavily in the eyes of those who 
cannot penetrate beneath the mere superficial aspects of 
science. 


104 posted on 01/27/2002 7:25:33 PM PST by AndrewC
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