Were the Nazis religious?
"Nazism wanted to transform the subjective consciousness of the German people – its attitudes, values and mentalities – into a single-minded, obedient "national community". The Nazis believed that they would therefore have to replace class, religious and regional allegiances"

"The Papacy's spiritual rule of Italy was restored by the Italian Fascist régime (albeit on a greatly diminished scale) in 1929 as head of the Vatican City state; under Mussolini's dictatorship, Roman Catholicism was declared the State religion of Fascist Italy"
 
The Nazis still weren't religious
Yes they were (not all of them tho) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany

And same for Fascists in Italy. (I'm talking mainly about the population not the states itself that was anticlerical)

They were not only religious, they tried to use religion or the repression of religious believes as a way to control the masses.

THat's what "religion and state" means. Fascism is the cult of tradition, and one of its basis is religion
 
That's kinda the opposite of being religious no?
Not really. Although there were religious fascist, the state used it to try to control the mass.

That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.

Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.

Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.

But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
 
Not really. Although there were religious fascist, the state used it to try to control the mass.

That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.

Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.

Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.

But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
There were differing views among the Nazi leaders as to the future of religion in Germany. Anti-Church radicals included Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann, the propagandist Alfred Rosenberg, and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, advocated "Positive Christianity" a uniquely Nazi form of Christianity that rejected Christianity's Jewish origins and the Old Testament, and portrayed "true" Christianity as a fight against Jews, with Jesus depicted as an Aryan.[14]
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Nazism wanted to transform the subjective consciousness of the German people – its attitudes, values and mentalities – into a single-minded, obedient "national community". The Nazis believed that they would therefore have to replace class, religious and regional allegiances.[15] Under the Gleichschaltung (Nazification) process, Hitler attempted to create a unified Protestant Reich Church from Germany's 28 existing Protestant churches. The plan failed, and was resisted by the Confessing Church. Persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany followed the Nazi takeover. Hitler moved quickly to eliminate political Catholicism. Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy. Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions whose functions were not strictly religious. Clergy, nuns, and lay leaders were targeted, with thousands of arrests over the ensuing years. The Catholic Church accused the regime of "fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church".[16] Many historians believe that the Nazis intended to eradicate traditional forms of Christianity in Germany after victory in the war.[17]
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Christianity remained the dominant religion in Germany through the Nazi period, and its influence over Germans displeased the Nazi hierarchy. Evans wrote that Hitler believed that in the long run Nazism and religion would not be able to coexist, and stressed repeatedly that it was a secular ideology, founded on modern science. According to Evans: "Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition." Germany could not tolerate the intervention of foreign influences such as the Pope, and "Priests, he said, were 'black bugs,' abortions in black cassocks.'"[89]
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Not really. Although there were religious fascist, the state used it to try to control the mass.

That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.

Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.

Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.

But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
Fraud just admit that you didn't read your own source and that you were wrong.
 
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Fraud just admit that you didn't read your own source and that you were wrong.
Mate,

First, Why are you suddenly hostile when we are defining fascism ? :sus:

Second, The fact that Nazis were anticlerical doesn't change the fact that Germany or the states ideologies were heavily influenced by religion. Religous christian people as explained welcomed Nazism

Third, when we talk about Fascism we talk not only about Nazism, but every fascism (included here the fascism of Mussolini that had ties with religious people >> check "clerical fascism" ).

HItler was an atheist (not all Nazi were atheist, they had very different set of beliefs actually) but it didn't stop him to try to use religion to control the masses.

Fourth. Again, you need to understand that when we are talking about the link between religion and fascism, we are not necessarily saying that the stay is pro religion, we are explaining how the state is using religion as a tool for control.

But the main problem isn't really religion, its the cult of traditions which religions are a part of and its appropriation by fascist as a mean of control and repression.
 
The fact that Nazis were anticlerical doesn't change the fact that Germany or the states ideologies were heavily influenced by religion. Religous christian people as explained welcomed Nazism
"Christian individuals were Nazis therefore Nazism was Christian" 🤡
First, Why are you suddenly hostile when we are defining fascism ? :sus:
You are making up your own definitions fraud.
 
"Christian individuals were Nazis therefore Nazism was Christian"
Not necessarily no.

You are making up your own definitions fraud.
I'm using the scholar consensus and the words of a scholar who studied and fought fascism to explain what fascism is mate. Stay focus.

Again to understand how to recognize primitive fascism you can check for the words of Umberto Eco. His description of Urfascism is largely accepted by scholars and researchers on the subject:



Also, why the animosity ?
 
Not necessarily no.


I'm using the scholar consensus and the words of a scholar who studied and fought fascism to explain what fascism is mate. Stay focus.

Again to understand how to recognize primitive fascism you can check for the words of Umberto Eco. His description of Urfascism is largely accepted by scholars and researchers on the subject:



Also, why the animosity ?
Mmmhhh
 
Yes they were (not all of them tho) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany

And same for Fascists in Italy. (I'm talking mainly about the population not the states itself that was anticlerical)

They were not only religious, they tried to use religion or the repression of religious believes as a way to control the masses.

THat's what "religion and state" means. Fascism is the cult of tradition, and one of its basis is religion
This only means that they used religion to their advantage. Imagine if they had fought religion in Germany and Italy? There would have been many internal conflicts, fascism and Nazism would have been less popular.
And not forget that both Hitler, the main thinkers and leaders of nazism, and even Mussolini were atheists.
It's important to note that the tradition worshipped, by nazis, wasn't a real tradition, just a myth of an aryan people that never existed mixed with mysticism, nostalgia for nordic and germanic culture and the social xarwinism of the time. Religious tradition was never the main focus.
 
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