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On positive German God-belief (1939). In Nazi Germany, Gottgläubig (lit. ' believing in God ') [1] [2] was a Nazi religious term for a form of non-denominationalism and deism practised by those German citizens who had officially left Christian churches but professed faith in some higher power or divine creator. [1]
Positive Christianity (German: positives Christentum) was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity.
The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, among the most aggressive anti-Church Nazis, wrote that there was "an insoluble opposition between the Christian and a heroic-German world view". [40] Goebbels saw an "insoluble opposition" between the Christian and Nazi world views. [40]
Hitler and the Nazi party promoted Positive Christianity, [38] which rejected most traditional Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus, as well as Jewish elements such as the Old Testament. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] In one widely quoted remark, he described Jesus as an "Aryan fighter" who struggled against "the power and pretensions of the ...
The aggressive spread of atheism in the Soviet Union alarmed many German Christians", wrote Blainey, and with the National Socialists becoming the main opponent of Communism in Germany: "[Hitler] himself saw Christianity as a temporary ally, for in his opinion 'one is either a Christian or a German'. To be both was impossible."
Never use that word.’ And he’d say, ‘Never use the word Hitler. Don’t use that word,'” Trump said. “And yet they use that word freely. Both words. They say, ‘He’s Hitler,’ and ...
In this sense, the word Nazi was a hypocorism of the German male name Igna(t)z (itself a variation of the name Ignatius)—Igna(t)z being a common name at the time in Bavaria, the area from which the NSDAP emerged. [17] [18] In the 1920s, political opponents of the NSDAP in the German labour movement seized on this.
Once in power, Hitler and most Nazi leaders sought to unify the Christian denominations in favor of "positive Christianity". Hitler privately condemned mystical and pseudoreligious interests as "nonsense", [ 87 ] and maintained that National Socialism was based on science and should avoid mystic and cultic practices. [ 88 ]