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Originally Posted by Creggle
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure Christianity was Hitler's main motivation for the majority of the things in his regime, he is what happens when a religious extremist so happens to wear a suit and lead a country.
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I'm pretty sure that he was driven by the lust for power and the wish to build the Third Reich into a world-dominating regime. Being a "Christian", however perverse his ideology, doesn't necessarily mean that his crusade was a religious one, and I believe he was more driven by his own megalomania than by any religious doctrine. Germany being humiliated after WW1 and the ensuing depression were bigger driving factors in the rise of the Nazis than religion was.
But all that’s beside the point. Not all wars are fought on religious grounds, and yet people always say how many lives have been lost to religion. Atheists are just as violent as believers because human beings, with very few exceptions, are flawed.