Elitism and Nazism

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The Hitler youth was taught Darwinism, in Darwinist styled schools.

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I hear they were also taught that if X + 5 = 8, then X = 3.Therefore, algebra leads to Nazism.This is why the Nazi army's belt buckles were emblazoned with the motto "The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the remaining sides."

Oh, clearly. "Farvergnugen" is just another way of saying "kill all Jews, gypsies, communists, and homosexuals."

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You are misinformed, they weren't taught math in the Hitler schools, or gravity theory, that was taught in the regular school system, but they were taught Darwinism in the Hitlerschool.

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But just so we can be clear... the Nazi government did preach the tenets of algebra to impressionable youth. Children were taught that the variables and unknown quantities of life could be extrapolated and reduced to a concrete value through reasoning and logic. Obviously a humanist approach, which resulted in the extermination of 11 million people.How long will it take before we back away from the same evil teachings in our own country?

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You are referring to the regular German army, not the Nazi SS troops I think.

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Yup.

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The SS was typically explicitely anti-christian

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What are you basing this on?

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I see, now you make a joke of it all. That's how seriously you take the holocaust.

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I can't speak for Mammuthus, but I take the Holocaust very seriously. What I don't take seriously is trying to blame the Holocaust on people hearing about a scientific theory. So yeah, I make jokes about it.Mind you, I don't think Christianity automatically leads to Nazism any more than Darwinism. I think when a pack of sick bastards wants to kill, they'll whip out any crap justification they can. Same as people who blow up gay bars and say it's for Jesus, or who shoot a bunch of kids at school and claim it was Marilyn Manson's idea, or any old reasoning they want.[This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 09-09-2003]

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Maybe Syamsu is thinking of the links between the nazis and paganism. The SS in particular was associated with a number of attempts to bring about a new nazi neo-paganism.

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Maybe. But until he addresses the stuff I said, it's one of those ineffable mysteries I've heard so much about.