Christianity is Anti-Hatred of People or Groups of People

[mornelithe]

JWeinCom said:

mornelithe said:

It's entirely plausible that the Paganism was simply a method Hitler devised to entice/control the population.  Much of the sybolism was derived from nordic mythology (the symbols for the SS is from Runes, isn't it?).  Sure, there are examples of other symbolism taken from far reaching belief sets, but there was a ton of nordic in there.  

It wouldn't really surprise me if they realized they could draw in more people by adopting ancient nordic beliefs and twisting it with other things, just enough so that the citizens of the area recognize and be more accepting of it.

It's fairly common for pagan or ancient symbols to be used more as a sign of tradition than beliefs.  The dollar sign is based off of the pillars of Hercules.  So, I agree it's not necessarily a sign of Hitler holding Pagan ideals, but I don't know enough about Hitler's views on Paganism to really comment.

Yeah I wasn't really making any truth claims there, sorry if it came across that way.  It was meant more as a question to you (since I can pretty much depend on you taking care of any long rebuttals w/ sources, in this particular debate), and was curious if you had any knowledge on the matter.  I definitely agree about old symbolism being used in everything, though.