Okay, lets just set this straight...
Sep. 16th, 2010 10:00 pmThe Nazis did not have an atheist manifesto.
They did go against any organisation that wasn't the Nazi party, and so organised religion, such as Catholicism, was not so hot with them. But the same could be said of everything from youth groups to trade unions, anything that could potentially get in the way of party authority was disbanded, some more forcibly than others.
Frankly, the treatment organised religion got, when compared to trade unions and rival political parties, was a fucking feather touch. They were mostly left alone as long as the individual priests didn't say anything bad about Nazi policy and leaders. If they did, well, they got what everyone else got who spoke against the status quo, a stay in a KZ. You weren't even banned from joining the SS if you was devout, sure you got laughed at and passed over for promotion, but these are the friggin' Nazis we're talking about here.
Also, can anyone name me a high-ranking nazi who was an atheist? I really can't think of any. Hitler was Roman Catholic and Himmler was off in his own little Teutonic reality, but I don't know much about the others.
So, Emperor Palpatine, shut the fucking hell up, you are the last person to talk and now I'm going to make a great big 'Gott Mit Uns' sign to take the the protest on Saturday.
They did go against any organisation that wasn't the Nazi party, and so organised religion, such as Catholicism, was not so hot with them. But the same could be said of everything from youth groups to trade unions, anything that could potentially get in the way of party authority was disbanded, some more forcibly than others.
Frankly, the treatment organised religion got, when compared to trade unions and rival political parties, was a fucking feather touch. They were mostly left alone as long as the individual priests didn't say anything bad about Nazi policy and leaders. If they did, well, they got what everyone else got who spoke against the status quo, a stay in a KZ. You weren't even banned from joining the SS if you was devout, sure you got laughed at and passed over for promotion, but these are the friggin' Nazis we're talking about here.
Also, can anyone name me a high-ranking nazi who was an atheist? I really can't think of any. Hitler was Roman Catholic and Himmler was off in his own little Teutonic reality, but I don't know much about the others.
So, Emperor Palpatine, shut the fucking hell up, you are the last person to talk and now I'm going to make a great big 'Gott Mit Uns' sign to take the the protest on Saturday.