Was Nazism anti-God?
In his first speech during his current visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI stated that:
“Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live.”
So was the Holocaust perpetrated by an atheist dictatorship such that we should equate non-belief not just with amorality or even immorality but with the greatest crime of humankind?
In fact, Adolf Hitler was no atheist and saw his political objectives as consistent with and supported by his Christian beliefs. Check out these quotes.
Of course, it is perfectly possible to be an atheist or agnostic and live a moral life as I have argued here.