A Rebuttal to

Carrier’s “Christianity in Hitler’s
Ideology: The Definitive Study”

For those of you who may already be aware, on January 29th of this year Richard Carrier published an article on his blog entitled “Christianity in Hitler’s Ideology: The Definitive Study” that elucidates primarily on three books that deal with the question of Christianity in National Socialism. Carrier takes the position that it is ‘counterfactual’ to declare that National Socialism was an atheistic movement, and that in fact, National Socialism was “stalwartly and predominantly Christian” as he puts it.

For a quick contextual preface, it is important to note that Carrier has predicated his argument on rejecting the notion that Adolf Hitler and National Socialism were products of atheism. While some Christians may take that position in order to pin the alleged atrocities of the Third Reich squarely on atheism (thus prompting Carrier’s rebuttal), both sides are heavily challenged by the evidence. National Socialism effectively rejected both atheism and Christianity in place of a folk-based nature religion steeped in mystical conceptions of blood and soil, race, and ancestral heritage.

In this article we will be examining, deconstructing and refuting the various claims from Richard Carrier to further substantiate the historical fact that National Socialism was fundamentally anti-Christian from its inception, and that the Gottgläubig (God-belief) concept within National Socialism was not only non-denominational, but inherently antithetical to any notions of the God of Abraham.

Let us begin…

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Read it all here.