| Final-Fan said: @ Kasz: But IIRC he was very closely associated with that Thule Society weirdo crap. In any case I think it's pretty unlikely he was atheist. More likely he had his own weird ideas. I heard in Mein Kampf he talked about Aryans being created specially by God, while everyone else (or just Jews?) evolved from apes. |
I disagree. Mostly because I don't think there has ever been an Atheist head of state... until possible very recently in some very very small very liberal country like Iceland or something.
Mein Kampf was just another political play and his message to the people. I mean the US has had one or two atheist presidents.... but if you asked them. They would say they were christian or would dodge it.
Hell Abe Lincoln learend to cover up the fact that he was a Deist even though a lot of presidents were... including are first. A good sign to find an atheist US president. Find one who in the early days went to church... but irregularly and different denominations. As far as i can tell there are something like 4 presidents who were probably atheist.
The Thule society while it was started as an occultist society was in fact a politcal orginzation. I believe it actually became the Nazi party.
Similar to for example... the Skull and Bones or Masons or whatever.
These orginzations are more about political clout, and goofing off more then any sort of actual belief in it. You join for the connections.
Hitler basically was the world's most "successful" cult leader.
So it basically depends on what you think about Cult Leaders. Whether
A) They are crazy people who believe they are predestined to be the messiah or some such, and through charm gather a cult following.
B) They are con men, who say they are predestined to be the messiah or some such, to get together a bunch of people to amass political and monetary power.
I tend to believe B is more often the case then A. Hitler seems to be a clear cut B with as much as he was willing to throw in a bit of everything just so long it helped him.
