Nazi photos Hitlers support for the Church

[kılıç_mehmet]

Well, it cannot be used to manipulate a people over a certain degree.
For example, if he were to use religion as his primary tool to come to power, people would be quite reluctant to actually spill christian blood in wars, or in that case, would revert from the German national identity to a simple Christian identity that knows no boundaries in terms of race, nation or language.

You might be surprised. The American Civil War was fueled by a strong abolitionist movement instigated by religious Quakers. Their preachers fueled the movement from the pulpit.

In the South the preachers fired up the populace by using the same religion. Things got more and more heated by all the religious arguments and firey language that they all thought they were morally superior to the other side.

What happened next was the bloodiest war America has ever experienced. Left the South in desolation for a century after killing 1/4 of it's military aged men and maiming another 1/4 of them.

The South, in crushing poverty, turned to religion for consolation, and is currently causing most of the problems with this country based on that religion. It's the heart of the Republican empire.

A war made on the basis of whether abolishing slavery or not(a war that was fuelled by humane concern, or economic hardships and necessity of slaves) is not the same as a war based on a national awakening, and a national goal, as the one that Nazi Germany was involved in.
Well, I'm sure that preachers had played their part in this, though I'm sure it wasn't a catholic-protestant or sunni-shia war, in which both sides claimed the other was spreading heresy.

---

The man's forte was psychological manipulation, so of course he would be interested in religion.

A nationalist leader does not try to arouse religious fervor amongst his followers, he tries to arouse nationalistic fervor, which is based on history, culture, ethnic and national pride and spirit.
Although religion is generally a part of the said culture, it stops there, nationalism does not put religious consciousness before ethnic/national consciousness.