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T T H E T E R R I B L E A L L I A N C E B E T W E E N D A R W I N A N D F A S C I S M 67
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all of the Nazi leaders were committed both to evolution and Germanic
racism, as were most German scientists and industrialists during those
dark years. 58
Hitler's Hatred of Religion
Another reason for the great importance Hitler attached to the theo-
ry of evolution was his seeing the theory as a weapon against religious
belief. Hitler had a great hatred of divine religions. Moral virtues such as
compassion, mercy, and humility, ordered by divine religions, represent-
ed a great obstacle to the ruthless and warrior Aryan type the Nazis want-
ed to create. For this reason, once the Nazis came to power in 1933 they
tried to turn German society back to its old pagan beliefs. The swastika, a
symbol from the old pagan cultures, was a sign of this return. The Nazi
ceremonies held in every corner of Germany were a return to the ancient
pagan rites. The idea of evolution, an inheritance from pagan cultures, fit-
ted in exceedingly well with the ideology of Nazism for this reason. Hitler
once revealed his attitude toward Christianity when he bluntly stated that
religion is an:
…organized lie [that] must be smashed. The State must remain the absolute
master. When I was younger, I thought it was necessary to set about
[destroying religion] …with dynamite. I've since realized there's room for a
little subtlety …. The final state must be … in St. Peter's Chair, a senile offi-
ciant; facing him a few sinister old women… The young and healthy are on
our side … Our peoples had previously succeeded in living all right without
this religion. I have six divisions of SS men absolutely indifferent in matters
of religion. 59
Daniel Gasman revealed the reasons for Hitler's hatred of religion in
his book The Scientific Origins of National Socialism:
Hitler stressed and singled out the idea of biological evolution as the most
foremost weapon against traditional religion and he repeatedly condemned
Christianity for its opposition to the teaching of evolution… For Hitler, evo-
lution was the hallmark of modern science and culture. 60
Actually, the fundamental cause of the countless catastrophes visited