Atheist Philosophy and Freedom of Religion

[AnAtheist]

Gilbert Keith:

Hitler was against **all **religion.

Atheists are not against religion, they are *without *it. Though there are certainly some who are both. You should stop thinking so dualistic. Not everybody, who does not share your belief, is your enemy. But it seems, you want that those are your enemy. Is it easier to hate them that way?

What he said in Mein Kampf did not represent his true thinking,

I am impressed. You cannot only read my mind, and what I want and not want. You can also read the mind of people long dead. Now, that’s a miracle worth noting.

and expressed his admiration for the atheist “God is dead” philosopher Nietzsche, going so far as to have himself photographed with a bust of Nietzsche.

Oh great. He also admired Wagner. Is listening to operas now a sign of fascism?

 

[Michael_Francis]

Keep it charitable and without assumptions please.

 

[coyote]

AnAtheist

Religious groups were quite often cruelly treated and executed by other religious groups, but never by atheists. And the only German state, that deserves the label “atheist”, was the DDR (East Germany). Granted, it treated their citizens cruelly, but that treatment was applied to anybody, who did not comply with the system, regardless of one’s belief.
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Why do you persist in this misinformation when it has been pointed out to you in other forums that it is not true?

Hitler was against **all **religion. Any biography of him will prove this. What he said in Mein Kampf did not represent his true thinking, as he later on several occasions repudiated Christianity altogether and expressed his admiration for the atheist “God is dead” philosopher Nietzsche, going so far as to have himself photographed with a bust of Nietzsche. In Mein Kampf he presented himself as a Christian so as not to offend Christians by his real hatred of religion.

What Martin Niemöller said, a Lutheran pastor in Germany who spent several years in one of Hitler’s concentration camps, appears in the Congressional Record, 14, October 1968, page 31636, as:

Hitler was not the total sum of all the German people. Hitler was from Austria. There were German people, during Hitler’s time that did what they could to oppose what was going on. Even to the extent of risking thier own lives. Don’t lump all German people into a single aberrent basket.