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Gerry Fable
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Mark Weber concludes his lecture with the admission that Hitler was a deist.


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"While he was critical of Christianity, Hitler was no atheist. "The religion of Hitlerism was thus essentially a kind of deism," concludes Birken. Like Thomas Jefferson and other prominent early American leaders, Hitler equated God with "the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe." Thus, "for Hitler, national socialism was natural socialism."


Institute for Historical Review - Mark Weber

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According to Evans, by 1939, 95% of Germans still called themselves Protestant or Catholic, with 3.5% 'Deist' (gottgläubig) and 1.5% atheist - most in these latter categories being "convinced Nazis who had left their Church at the behest of the Party, which had been trying since the mid 1930s to reduce the influence of Christianity in society".[24] Gottgläubig" (lit. "believers in god", had a non-denominational, nazified outlook on god beliefs, often described as predominately based on creationist and deistic views[25] Despite all the promotion for positive Christianity and the gottgläubig movement, the majority of the three million Nazi Party members continued to pay their church taxes and register as either Roman Catholic or Mainline Protestant Christians.[26]
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