{"id":3649,"date":"2010-09-17T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:18:24","slug":"was-nazism-anti-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Was Nazism anti-God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first speech during his current visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI stated that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Adolf Hitler was no atheist and saw his political objectives as consistent with and supported by his Christian beliefs. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/09\/list_of_hitler_quotes_in_honor.php\">these quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is perfectly possible to be an atheist or agnostic and live a moral life as I have argued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/good.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first speech during his current visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI stated that: &#8220;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}