(September 7, 2014 at 5:08 am)robvalue Wrote: That's right, I'm pretty sure Hitler didn't kill all those people on his own. Which god did quite a bit, I may add.
Exactly. And to say that the Germans (or in particular those active in the NSDAP or even the SS) were all atheists is a big stretch. They surely weren't. They had to believe in a kind of creation myth in which they were the chosen people. Otherwise, the whole ideological shebang of the NS regime would have had no foundation.
They abhorred the idea of evolution because it says that there are no clear-cut divisions, and in particular no qualtiative differences, between human races.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
