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Friday 17 September 2010

Historical inaccuracy by Pope about Hitler's alleged Atheism



Having read Mein Kampf, I was very disappointed at the Pope for pretending that Hitler wanted to remove God from the Germans. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11313328  Quite the contrary. This is what Hitler actually said about religion:

"By helping to lift the ...human being above the level of mere animal existence, Faith really contributes to consolidate and safeguard its own existence. Taking humanity as it exists today and taking into consideration the fact that the religious faiths which it generally holds and which have been consolidated through our education, so that they serve as moral standards in practical life, if we should now abolish religious teaching and not replace it by anything of equal value the result would be that the foundations of human existence would be seriously shaken. We may safely say that man does not live merely to serve higher ideals but that these ideals, in their turn, furnish the necessary conditions of existence as a human being. And thus the circle is closed."

"The greatness of Christianity did not arise from attempts to make compromises with those philosophical opinions of the ancient world which had some resemblance to its own doctrine, but in the unrelenting and fanatical proclamation and defence of its own teaching."

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