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	<title>Hitler and Christianity</title>
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	<description>A Scriptural Analysis of Anti-Semitism, National Socialism, and the Churches in Nazi Germany.  Debunking the Myth that Hitler was a Christian.</description>
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		<title>Nietzsche and the Jewish Menace to Civilization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is necessary to look at some other ideas about the Jews expressed by Nietzsche in his book. For one thing, he stressed the racial toughness of the Jews: “Psychologically, the Jews are a people gifted with the very strongest vitality . . .” (24). The Jews have “the most profound national instinct, the most powerful national will to live, that has ever appeared on earth.” (27). Hitler had the same idea:

The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew. In hardly any people in the world is the instinct of self-preservation developed more strongly than in the so-called ‘chosen.’ ]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche, Paul and the Emergence of Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul and the emergence of Christianity For Nietzsche, Christianity began with Paul. The rabbi Paul, whose Jewishness is stressed by Nietzsche (25)(23), wanted only power for himself (22). To gain power, he invented a false philosophy so as to bring people under his control. This was identical to the earlier methods and motives of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitlerandchristianity.com/nietzche-paul-and-the-emergence-of-christianity/242.html</link>
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		<title>Review from British Church Newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question of how a civilised and modern state in the heart of Europe could devise, organise and perpetrate a racial genocide of the scale and brutality of the Holocaust has, in the minds of many, defied rational analysis. Yet to simply disregard it as unthinkable or the work of a few psychopaths is intellectually unsound and deeply unsatisfactory.]]></description>
		<link>http://hitlerandchristianity.com/review-from-british-church-newspaper/171.html</link>
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		<title>Youtube Video Trailer for the Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Short, 2 minute version:]]></description>
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		<title>Preface and Permissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some changes have been made to the first edition. With the help of some constructive criticisms, as well as more research materials obtained from the States, I have been able to strengthen the bibliography and add more historical detail and accuracy to the work. Some of the Christian polemics have been deleted from the second part, which is after all more academic in nature (as well as from chapter 4). The sections on Luther, Bonhoeffer, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Wagner in particular have been added to and revised.

Whatever flaws there might be in the book—and no book on these topics will satisfy everyone—I am confident that the main points are unassailable. Biblical Christianity, as taught by Christ and the apostles, and as practiced by many sincere Christians over the centuries, has nothing whatever to do with modern secular hallucinations such as National Socialism or Communism. Criticisms which do not touch upon these points may be interesting and useful, but cannot I think be anything other than secondary.]]></description>
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		<title>EXCERPT: Darwin, Evolution, Haeckel, Hitler and Mein Kampf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much of National Socialism can be found in the Folkish movement that it is not surprising two major studies have located the origins of Hitler's ideology there. Viereck's Meta-politics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind focuses on the ideas of Wagner. Mosse's The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich focuses on broader intellectual trends and currents of which Wagner was only a representative. Viereck spends more time elaborating on the Folkish roots in romanticism, especially in philosophy, while Mosse concentrates more on the spread of Folkish ideas through German society in the 19th and early 20th centuries-but in spite of their differences, both studies have a lot in common. Taken together, they provide a significant part of the explanation for Hitler.]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Harris and A Dangerous Christianity- A Menace Himself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That the self-proclaimed advocates of secular tolerance might themselves be (like some theists) fully capable of killing for their beliefs is exemplified by the popular atheist author Sam Harris. In his book The End of Faith, he states that "Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them."  This statement raised so many eyebrows, even among atheists, that Harris felt compelled to give an explanation on the internet.[ Since this attitude is directly related to the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Mao, it merits some discussion.]]></description>
		<link>http://hitlerandchristianity.com/sam-harris-menace-to-christians-faith-dangerous/65.html</link>
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		<title>Excerpt: The Holocaust, Original Sin and Ordinary Germans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[           The failure to understand the dark reality of original sin has nullified from the outset the vast majority of attempts to come to grips with the evils of the Third Reich. People with no firm convictions concerning righteousness, holiness, sin, or evil wander in a maze when they try to understand these matters. They are certain that the Nazis were evil, but are unable to provide any convincing or coherent explanation of the delight in cruelty that is one of the most outstanding features of the Holocaust. A real explanation is possible within a biblical framework. For those who see human nature as basically good, Hitler will forever remain an insoluble riddle—as will many of life’s other problems.]]></description>
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		<title>Hitler and Eugenics, Dawkins and Boteach, Concepts of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[           That Hitler valued science is insufficiently appreciated. Some quotes from his Table Talk could easily have been made by such apostles of the New Atheism and enemies of Christianity as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, or Richard Dawkins. For example, he reportedly stated that people were attracted to religion by fear of the unknown or by intellectual simplicity, but the time would come "when science can answer all the questions."[ii]
            This source has many comments to that effect. Religion would "crumble" before the "advances of science"; science cannot err too much because it is non-dogmatic and self-correcting. Hitler is quoted as saying, "science postulates the search for, and not the certain knowledge of, the truth." Religious dogma was in conflict with research, and would collapse "under the battering-ram of science."[iii]
            In what became a minor internet controversy, Richard Dawkins compared one Boteach]]></description>
		<link>http://hitlerandchristianity.com/eugenics-god-dawkins-boteach-himmler/58.html</link>
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		<title>Excerpt from Chapter One:  The Present Situation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[          In the recent past, it was much more commonly assumed that Christianity had nothing to do with National Socialism. It was believed that Christianity was basically benevolent, while National Socialism was basically evil, that Hitler was as far removed from the Sermon on the Mount as it is humanly possible to get. The great majority of Americans would have assumed that the Jewish experience in America was the norm, the result of the Christian influence on American culture.

            The cultural climate has changed in the last fifty years, however, and the growing power of secularism makes people less inclined to view Christianity so tolerantly. The well-known support of German Christians for Hitler; statements about God, Christianity, and the churches by Hitler and by leading Nazis, including strong opposition to atheism; Hitler's Catholic upbringing and his Concordat with the Vatican; the fact that Hitler never officially withdrew from the Catholic Church; the official support for "positive Christianity" in the Nazi party platform; the supposed fact that Hitler came to power in an overwhelmingly Christian country; centuries of Christian anti-Semitism; verses in the New Testament that seem hostile to Jews; the massacres of the Canaanites in the Old Testament-all of these and even other arguments have been emphasized by those who see more and more evidence of connections between Hitler and Christianity.    

            Reputable scholars and historians have studied Hitler's ideology more objectively. 
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