Quote from the book:
“The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men.”
Thoughts?
Only one.
We can say that we are “freemen”, but “free” from what? Other men maybe. We are not free from disasters, age, death, sickness, misfortunes etc, and this is why God comes into the picture.
It is a conception based on Oriental despotisms because Nature is seen as a despot. When the plague comes, it does not take a poll, or ask for volunteers to die, as a good President who is a servant of freemen, but takes lives as a despot would.
“Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism the destroyer. Nevertheless, the Galilean, who later was called the Christ, intended something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry. Galilee was a colony where the Romans had probably installed Gallic legionaries, and items certain that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore and a Roman soldier,which in christianity is not a belief. The decisive falsification of Jesus’s doctrine was the work of St. Paul. He gave himself to this work with subtlety and for purposes of personal exploitation. For the Galilean’s object was to liberate His country from Jewish oppression. He set Himself against Jewish capitalism, and that’s why the Jews liquidated Him. Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely.When he learnt that Jesus’s supporters let their throats be cut for His ideas, he realised that, by making intelligent use of the Galilean’s teaching, it would be possible to overthrow this Roman State which the Jews hated. It’s in this context that we must understand the famous “illumination”. Think of it, the Romans were daring to confiscate the most sacred thing the Jews possessed, the gold piled up in their temples! At that time, as now, money was their god. On the road to Damascus, St. Paul discovered that he could succeed in ruining the Roman State by causing the principle to triumph of the equality of all men before a single GodÙand by putting beyond the reach of the laws his private notions, which he alleged to be divinely inspired. If, into the bargain, one succeeded in imposing one man as the representative on earth of the only God, that man would possess boundless power.” ~Hitler.
Adolf knew very much about exploitable human weaknesses and sources of national power/control.
“God” never once spoke for himself, only evil men lied behind him.
These things exist with or without God, but then they are used to support fear of God, and most importantly, fear of God’s word – which is actually an evil lieing man’s word.
Small lies are told by average men, and are to be expected by average men, but the largest lies are completely unexpected, and often completely believed in.
God will flourish as long as evil men wish to exploit and control the mass.
Is it any wonder that the evil of the state is seen in the evil of their gods?