tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post2115435967602439698..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Was Hitler an atheist?Jim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-87084207391933140522007-09-05T14:35:00.000+00:002007-09-05T14:35:00.000+00:00Readers may wish to know that I've a letterin the ...Readers may wish to know that I've a letterin the Independent today <A HREF="http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2927066.ece" REL="nofollow">here</A> which reads;<BR/><BR/>"Sir: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Opinion, 3 September), like many who attack atheism, has chosen to include Hitler among our number. Hitler was not an atheist.<BR/><BR/>Whilst Hitler despised Catholicism he described himself as a Christian many times – to the extent of promoting a perverted form of "Positive Christianity" more suited to the anti-Semitic barbarism of the Nazi ideology. The Nazi Party itself described itself as a Christian organisation that did not "tie itself . . . to any particular denomination".<BR/><BR/>While the point that there have been many bad atheists still stands, it's just not accurate to include Hitler among their number. That doesn't mean that the Holocaust was down to his Christianity any more than Stalin's pogroms and labour camps were down to his atheist predilections.<BR/><BR/>Jim Jepps<BR/><BR/>Cambridge"Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-55043866579438357592007-09-04T13:04:00.000+00:002007-09-04T13:04:00.000+00:00Hi I enjoyed reading your blog and would like to i...Hi I enjoyed reading your blog and would like to invite your readers to pop by and visit us here at 'An Unrepentant Communist', an increasingly popular Left blog from Ireland<BR/><BR/>http://unrepentantcommunist.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>I hope you will be able to link our blog to yours.<BR/><BR/>Greetings to all progressives reading this from County Kerry in Ireland! <BR/>GabrielGabrielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842473772696324319noreply@blogger.com