"Uh huh. What "truth" were you telling, again?"
1) Hitler was not an atheist, he was a theist. He used Christian imagery to build his race religion, and believed that the Aryan race was the perfect special creation of the Creator.
2) He wasn't *insane*, he was evil. *Insane* people are not accountable for their actions, they do not know what they are doing. Hitler knew damn well what he was doing.
He did "use" that imagery, like any good propagandist would. The question is whether this was the reason for his actions, and the answer to that is no, as you state yourself:
2) He wasn't *insane*, he was evil. *Insane* people are not accountable for their actions, they do not know what they are doing. Hitler knew damn well what he was doing.
Huh. And how do you, an atheist, define evil? Can "evil" possibly exist?
As it happens, one can be both "insane" (a rather squishy term) and aware of their actions. The legal question of insanity is not one of awareness, but rather whether one can be held accountable for his actions. As any mental health worker will tell you, insane people are often meticulously logical, and even rational within the confines of their own worlds; it's just that the boundaries of their worlds don't reach out very far from their own heads.