Yes, Freddy, I knew that Bormann was a very powerful Nazi--I read "Inside the Third Reich" several times--but he is still just one person who wrote something. And incidentally, everything he said about organized religion in his tract which was negative made absolutely perfect sense to me--it had the ring of truth and logic. The fact that there are lots of abuses of power with large religious institutions, however, does not in any way justify the evil the Nazis did. It just proves that the subjects we are discussing are complex, and certainly cannot be simplified to prove your construct that evil breeds in the absence of religious belief, if that is what you are saying.
I would be impressed if you could refute Hakeem's essays, and you could maybe gain some credibility that way, but the only thing you have offered in the past to discredit him is that he is not writing in the same field as his doctorate is in, and therefore is not subject to peer review. Well, he is certainly subject to the same criticism anyone writing a scholarly tract would be, and so I just don't think that is very significant.
My own opinon after studying Hitler and the Nazis is that Hitler felt powerless and impotent because he had only one testicle, and was full of self-hatred because he was part Jewish and in Aryan Germany, which was a very racist state, that was unacceptable. So the reign of terror was a campaign of overcompensation on a grand scale. In any event, it had absolutely nothing to do with atheist or pagan belief systems (although the Inquisition had everything do to with churches trying to enforce their beliefs on everyone by force).
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