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	<title>Comments on: WWII Posters and Modern Patriotism.</title>
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		<title>By: Mike H</title>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/blog/2009/06/wwii-posters-and-modern-patriotism/comment-page-1#comment-194</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, a Wikipedia article most likely written by a collective of basement dwelling, hot pocket subsisting, virgins is definitively the trump card I would play if I was in the hole you just dug for yourself.   

I realize that you fancy yourself as some kind of clever pseudo intellectual for your parroting of the attempt to dovetail German fascism – Hitler – and Christianity, but it’s a highly flammable straw man. 

Hitler publicly embraced Christianity because it was an institution that nearly all Germans held some allegiance to. Privately he despised it because it undermined the authority of the state. 

“All of the confessionals are the same. Whichever one you choose, it will not have a future. Not for the Germans anyway. Fascism (Italian) may in the name of God make its peace with the church. I will do that too. Why not! It wont stop me from eradicating Christianity from Germany root and branch. You are either a Christian or a German. You cant be both.”  - Hitler&#039;s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, pg 105

Care for some more volumes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, a Wikipedia article most likely written by a collective of basement dwelling, hot pocket subsisting, virgins is definitively the trump card I would play if I was in the hole you just dug for yourself.   </p>
<p>I realize that you fancy yourself as some kind of clever pseudo intellectual for your parroting of the attempt to dovetail German fascism – Hitler – and Christianity, but it’s a highly flammable straw man. </p>
<p>Hitler publicly embraced Christianity because it was an institution that nearly all Germans held some allegiance to. Privately he despised it because it undermined the authority of the state. </p>
<p>“All of the confessionals are the same. Whichever one you choose, it will not have a future. Not for the Germans anyway. Fascism (Italian) may in the name of God make its peace with the church. I will do that too. Why not! It wont stop me from eradicating Christianity from Germany root and branch. You are either a Christian or a German. You cant be both.”  &#8211; Hitler&#8217;s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, pg 105</p>
<p>Care for some more volumes?</p>
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		<title>By: Benjamin Geiger</title>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/blog/2009/06/wwii-posters-and-modern-patriotism/comment-page-1#comment-193</link>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Geiger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hardly.

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&quot;In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote neither as an atheist, nor an agnostic, nor as a believer in a remote, rationalist divinity; instead he expressed his belief in one providential, active, deity&quot;.

&quot;Drawing on higher criticism and some branches of theologically liberal Protestantism, Hitler for a time advocated for German Christians a Positive Christianity, traditional Christianity purged of everything that he found objectionable and with certain, particularly racist, additions. Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself, but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus, whom Hitler regarded as an Aryan opponent of the Jews.&quot;
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(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;)

And with &quot;many volumes&quot; out there, you pick a single unsourced quote?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hardly.</p>
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&#8220;In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote neither as an atheist, nor an agnostic, nor as a believer in a remote, rationalist divinity; instead he expressed his belief in one providential, active, deity&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Drawing on higher criticism and some branches of theologically liberal Protestantism, Hitler for a time advocated for German Christians a Positive Christianity, traditional Christianity purged of everything that he found objectionable and with certain, particularly racist, additions. Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself, but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus, whom Hitler regarded as an Aryan opponent of the Jews.&#8221;
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<p>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs" rel="nofollow">link</a>)</p>
<p>And with &#8220;many volumes&#8221; out there, you pick a single unsourced quote?</p>
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		<title>By: Mike H</title>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/blog/2009/06/wwii-posters-and-modern-patriotism/comment-page-1#comment-192</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay.&quot; - Joseph Goebbels 

Hitler&#039;s public views on faith are quite different than his privately held beliefs. Many volumes have been written on the subject, and it might do you some good to introduce yourself to them before coming off as such an ignoramus in the future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay.&#8221; &#8211; Joseph Goebbels </p>
<p>Hitler&#8217;s public views on faith are quite different than his privately held beliefs. Many volumes have been written on the subject, and it might do you some good to introduce yourself to them before coming off as such an ignoramus in the future.</p>
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