(August 10, 2015 at 2:06 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Does that make the Third Reich an atheistic state, or rather the opposite?
No it does not make it an atheistic state. Atheism is not a movement but a personal declaration of a lack of belief in God.
However, it was certainly not Christian. If you replace the word Christianity with the word Atheism in hitler's speeches, would you say it was an atheist state or movement?
Hitler was enthralled with creating the "superman" or "ubermensch". There are some that argue that Nietzsche's philosophy spear-headed the Third Reich and other Fascist states as under Stalin and Mussolini and there is certainly reasonably evidence to assume such as there are direct reflections back to the writings and idea of Nietzsche from each regime. Nietzsche popularized the term, "God is dead, we have killed him". Read his parable called "The Mad Man". Where men kill the idea of God and then assume the role of God themselves.
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