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Eric Kurlander's New Book Attempts to Explain Nazi Supernatural and Occult Beliefs

8/25/2017

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​The Nazis are history’s archetypical supervillains, and there has long been a tendency to ascribe to them supernatural evil. Members of the Nazi Party used the occult for a variety of purposes. The ridiculous World Ice Theory found favor mostly because it could be used as an alternative to “Jewish” science. Atlantis and Thule were potential Aryan homelands, and the Holy Grail was supposedly an artifact of Germanic history. Heinrich Himmler, perhaps the truest believer, hoped to infuse pagan ritual into the SS to give an extra layer of emotional power to Nazi ideology. 
​But while there was certainly a layer of pseudoscience and occult practice among some Nazis, in the years after the war, this occult connection ballooned in the popular imagination into the image of a regime permeated with occultists, suffused with magic and demonic power, and even contact with space aliens. Much of the blame for this rests with Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, who in their book Morning of the Magicians painted a picture of Hitler as obsessed with the supernatural and the recipient of revelations from extraterrestrial or interdimensional beings. Much of their analysis, which wasn’t meant seriously, was entirely false but accepted as true by generations of fringe writers.
 
Now Stetson University professor Eric Kurlander has released a new book called Hitler’s Monsters which claims to be a supernatural history of Nazi Germany. I have not read the book. Instead, I read an interview with the author in Slate magazine. Kurlander, who has published extensively on German history, argues that the Nazi state embraced the pseudoscientific and the occult like no other before it and that their use of fake history and magical thinking was qualitatively different from any other country. He locates the origins of the Nazi occult in the Austro-German social context of the 1890s down to the Great War.
We happen to have a period in Austria and Germany, where for various reasons, the intrinsic popularity of certain occult ideas and border scientific doctrines, of alternative religions, Nordic mythology, and German folklore, punctuated by crises, like World War I and the Great Depression, made the supernatural imaginary much more widespread, public, political, and dangerous as a reservoir of policy, than it would have been otherwise or was in other countries at that time 
​Kurlander, who seems to overstate the degree to which the Nazi state promoted the supernatural and the occult (Hitler, for example, seems not have cared much about it beyond its political utility), says that other Western countries did not experience the same type of Romantic, magical thinking or embrace of the supernatural:
In France, you don’t see the equivalent politicization and racialization of it. You have theosophy in Britain and America. But it’s a relatively harmless movement, where people get together in a drawing room and try to connect with spirits and write novels about Atlantis. But the concept of root races, which [H.P.] Blavatsky, the Russian progenitor of theosophy, talked about, never gets brought up as an actual basis for belief in “superior breeding” or race war among the liberal or conservative parties that run the government in Britain and America. It clearly is not influencing Roosevelt or Churchill’s view of social policy or foreign policy.
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But in Germany so many of the people who joined the Nazi Party or supported it are using language and ideas directly borrowed from these occult and border scientific doctrines. “Tschandals,” the lesser races, a Thule civilization.
​Kurlander wants us to see the German situation as inherently different, but that just isn’t true. The same types of people had the same types of ideas at the same time in other countries. Blavatsky, here identified as Russian, was living in America at the time she invented Theosophy (in a house in Ithaca, N.Y., which I walked by on the way to college many mornings) and Theosophy began as a largely American movement before moving outward to Britain and the Continent. The German philosophies he blames for Nazism—anthroposophy and ariosophy—grew out of Theosophy, which in turn would not exist without America’s pseudohistory, notably Atlantis theories and mound builder myths. Many countries have been consumed with pseudoscience, from America’s eugenics laws to the Soviet Union’s disastrous adoption of Lysenkoism. Politicians were also consumed with crazy ideas, from the Tsarist flirtation with Rasputin to U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s obsession with apocalyptic prophecy, theosophy, and the occult. On the lesser end, British prime minister William Gladstone believed in Atlantis and claimed that world mythologies were all corruptions of an original Biblical narrative.
 
In the literature of all of the different countries, we find writings virtually indistinguishable from those that led to the Nazi occult. I’ve ready plenty of them, and virtually every country had a somewhat racist origin myth that explained why they were better than all others, more deeply connected to primeval glory, etc. British Israelism was for a while a strong rival to German Aryanism, tracing Britain’s imperial glory to being the “real” (and non-Semitic) Aryan Jews. Italians appealed romantically to Roman glory, and Americans invented the lost white race mound builder myth and used it to justify Indian removal and policies designed to “restore” America to its rightful white rulers. America even created a whole religion—Mormonism—based on this myth, and that lost white race weaves in and out of American nuttiness ranging from Atlantis theories to Theosophy. It goes without saying that all of the Western countries were de jure or de facto racist (American slavery and Jim Crow, e.g.) and suffused with antisemitism. France revealed this in the Dreyfus Affair. Imperial Russia was a hotbed of antisemitism, and the Nazis borrowed a lot of their propaganda from tsarist material, such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which also had a huge fan in all-American Henry Ford, who paid to propagandize Americans with reprints of the forged volume. Scientists in all of these countries, just as in Nazi Germany, happily promulgated white supremacy and made scientific arguments that the white race was superior to all others, supporting this with appeals to anthropology, ethnology, and other emerging sciences. The Nazis modeled many of their views on American and British racism.
 
The question, therefore, isn’t whether there was a qualitative difference in the ideas promulgated in Nazi Germany and in other Western countries, but rather why Nazi Germany let pseudoscience and occult beliefs run roughshod over more sober assessments. Here, I think, Kurlander gives the answer accidentally. He notes that most Germans and most German scientists didn’t subscribe to Nazi pseudoscience except when compelled by the state.
After the war, now that Germany was defeated [these kinds of supernatural thinking] became receded from the realm of policy, becoming a mostly privatized form of entertainment. No longer were there research institutes, supported by Himmler or Hitler, sponsoring parapsychology, dowsing, or World Ice Theory. With the collapse of Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry no major German political leaders were promoting astrology as a means of propaganda or threatening collaborators with retribution from Nazi “werewolves.” And that for me is important.
​In short, the only thing that differed between German pseudoscience and that of other countries was that it was a fringe belief that gained the power of the state, supported by a totalitarian government in which there was no opposition party to support mainstream science, if only as part of a program of opposition. Nazism’s extreme Theosophy had no more popular support before 1933 than in any other country, and it faded away after 1945. The defining difference, therefore, was state support, which let a minority view—for Kurlander concedes it was never a majority position, even within the Nazi party rank and file—become official. A U.S. vice president or a British prime minister lacked the ability to impose pseudoscience because of the institutions that divided power; Stalin could enact Lysenkoism by force of law because there was no power to balance his.
 
Kurlander suggests that the Nazi experience offers lessons for us today, decrying the fact that the American public won’t elect someone who supports scientific findings on controversial issues, but he declines to note that while the state imposed weird ideas in Nazi Germany, today the bad science and fictitious history are part of a bottom-up movement where wide swaths of non-state actors seek to influence public opinion with the goal of using bad ideas to gain political power. The opposite happened in Germany, where the political power came first and was then used to shape public opinion in support of the Nazis’ worst beliefs. Hitler’s voters didn’t support him because they believed in Atlantis, World Ice Theory, or Thule. But American voters certainly support politicians because of their pseudoscientific beliefs about climate change, vaccines, creationism, Confederate historical revisionism, etc. Pseudoscientific beliefs have become markers of identity and no longer need to be imposed by the state because they have already taken over the voters.
46 Comments
AAA
8/25/2017 10:47:04 am

Investigate Maria Orsic and Vril Society. Also Michael Salla's book "The US Navy's Secret Space Program and Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance" would be a recommended reading.

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Joe Scales
8/25/2017 10:53:01 am

"But American voters certainly support politicians because of their pseudoscientific beliefs about climate change, vaccines, creationism, Confederate historical revisionism, etc. Pseudoscientific beliefs have become markers of identity and no longer need to be imposed by the state because they have already taken over the voters."

Probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever read here. How many of these "voters" have been taken over? Does it matter for what party, or just the one you oppose? More painting with a broad brush; or better put, smearing with one.

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Jason Colavito link
8/25/2017 11:02:42 am

No one belief commands a majority view, but we have seen time and again that those who do believe support politicians who share their beliefs, or at least express support for them. Certain positions have become partisan articles of faith and have been used as ideological purity tests. Try finding a conservative politician who will condemn creationism as pseudoscience. Mike Pence isn't imposing creationist beliefs by fiat; voters and his party made that position a feature of Republican politics as a proxy for opposition to "liberal" education.

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Joe Scales
8/25/2017 11:06:06 am

It wouldn't be hard to find democrats who are religious. If you looked for them and wished to shame them, that is.

Philosopher
8/25/2017 11:12:45 am

Science has never reached a wrong conclusion or is it a kind of religion? Washing hands before surgery was once considered pseudoscience. In cases like this I take pseudoscience any day.

Jason Colavito link
8/25/2017 11:15:04 am

Voters of all stripes have irrational orthodoxies. Democrats' tend to be in the social sciences rather than the hard sciences, but both sides have pseudoscientific beliefs about racial and diversity issues.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
8/25/2017 01:41:41 pm

Being religious is not the same as being creationist, Scales, and to imply otherwise is ridiculous.

Joe Scales
8/25/2017 08:17:45 pm

So you imagine there are degrees of magical thinking that would somehow put creationists at the bottom of the barrel? No, that would be politics.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
8/25/2017 11:04:40 pm

Young-earth creationism requires ignoring pretty much all of the science of biology and some of the most important findings of geology and physics. Are you saying that ALL possible political positions are on that level?

PHILOSOPHER
8/26/2017 08:49:09 am

Why such a vehement denial that the Universe was and is and will be created? Is there something in science that rules out such a possibility?

Joe Scales
8/26/2017 09:48:54 am

So, bottom of the barrel it is then. And yes, value judgment is often politically influenced.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
8/26/2017 02:33:48 pm

Philosopher: "Creationism" is often a shorthand for young-earth creationism, the belief that the Bible is literally true and the world is only a few thousand years old. It is a ridiculous notion. You're talking about creationism in the broader sense, the idea that the universe was created by some higher being, which isn't incompatible with what we know about the universe. Many religious people believe that the universe is billions of years old but that the god they believe in created it. I don't hold that position myself, but I have no objection to it. Young-earth creationism, on the other hand, represents a massive case of scientific illiteracy.

PHILOSOPHER
8/26/2017 03:35:44 pm

Completely agree that the young Earth creationism is an erroneous theory. But as you also point out that does not mean that Universe was not created. I would also propose one more possibility that I believe is true: God and the Universe is one and the same. And thus God is creating itself and ultimately there is only one very large Being that is "playing games" with itself by dividing itself into many parts. What God does is that God is creating all of Life and we humans are creating our lives. It is a holy collaboration and thus God is both the creator and the created. So God is the sum of all of life. And God has always existed and will always exist and therefore it is of infinite age. This means that our lives are also eternal.These are fairly complex ideas and cannot be in length explained here. They are probably best explained in his books by Neale Donald Walsch.

Joe Scales
8/26/2017 09:00:22 pm

"Many religious people believe that the universe is billions of years old but that the god they believe in created it."


And many also believe Jesus Christ had magic powers. And just to clarify, I wasn't putting politics per se at the bottom of the barrel. I was inferring that it was politics that had you place the creationists there, when there's plenty of folly to spread around within the religious world.

On a tangent now, and in the spirit of discourse... which might you have more of a problem with: A creationist who honestly believes their religion or a politician who pretends to be religious

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
8/26/2017 09:27:51 pm

A politician who pretends to be religious is an awkward question in this country. It's seemingly impossible to be elected to national office without being nominally religious (there are maybe two or three exceptions, all representatives). Presidents are de facto required to claim to be Christian, or were until very recently, and that's ridiculous. If the best person for the job had lapsed into agnosticism but claimed to be Christian, would I object to the dishonesty? Frankly, no.

Incidentally, of the six presidents we've had in the past 30 years, there's only one who I'd be very surprised to discover was pretending to be religious. That one is George W. Bush, who was obviously not the best person for the job. Of course, none of the other five were the best person for the job, either.

I hated young-earth creationism before I had any real knowledge of politics. It's the underlying scientific ignorance that's the problem, though there are other positions tied to politics that are nearly as ignorant and more directly dangerous. Anti-vaccination advocates are a prime example.

An honest young-earth creationist is a problem only insofar as they can spread their ignorance to other people. Nobody who holds that belief should be in a position to influence school science curricula, at any level. Nor should they be scientific advisors — or people with the power to appoint scientific advisors. I say the same of anti-vaxxers.

MithrandirOlorin link
7/15/2019 12:38:09 am

No Racist believes in Young Earth Creationism, I've been to every openly Racist Christina website, they all start with claiming not all Homo Sapiens descend from Adam and Eve. Meaning some level of compromise with Evolution is always part of the picture.

Pops
8/28/2017 11:20:31 am

Joes Scales the triggered republican snowflake. Face it you're party is filled with Young Earth Creationists, climate change denial, support trickle down economics, etc. How come every time Jason mentions a fact about politics/ conservatism you yell" terrible post" and get all snowflakey. Joes Scales= ignorance. When Jason attacks the left you say nothing. But when he attacks the Right you leap to the defense. Troll.

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orang
8/25/2017 12:28:29 pm

Great blog post, Jason.

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Pops
8/28/2017 11:28:55 am

I agree with you Orang. The problem is the triggered conservatives here that are whining (Joes Scales). Sorry, we debunk pseudoscience in this blog so this is not a safe space for snowflakes. Also, everytime I see Joe Scales here or in other blogs he always complains of attacks on republicans, religion, Trump, or something to do white people. Ignore Joe he's a troll.

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Joe Scales
8/28/2017 09:17:03 pm

Great. Another cyber-stalker.

Get in line pal...

Brian
8/25/2017 12:52:48 pm

I figured you'd have a solid, common-sense take on this. The difference between top-down totalitarianism imposition of fringe beliefs and bottom-up democratic election of people with shared fringe beliefs is interesting.

I discovered the bizarre "world ice" theory because I studied Ido for a while (talk about fringe) and that's one of the old texts that had been translated before the war. I was so happy to see Americans weren't the only ones creating inanities - but evidently we were the home of Theosophy, heaven help us. Ach weh.

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E.P. Grondine
8/27/2017 12:27:05 pm

Yes, theosophy had Its roots with Augustus and Alice LePloneon's salon in New York:
http://www.danieljglenn.com/the_podcasts/Stelle/Documentation/He%20Walked%20Among%20Us%20Part%201.pdf

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Uncle Ron
8/25/2017 01:10:15 pm

h paragraph: I’ve ready plenty of them, and virtually every country had a somewhat racist origin myth that explained why they were better all others

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Only Me
8/25/2017 02:13:22 pm

This was a great read. I really liked the comparison between state-sponsored pseudoscience and the electing of politicians who share the fringe beliefs of the voter.

I hope you get the chance to review Kurlander's book.

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Thorwald C. Franke link
8/25/2017 06:35:10 pm

When writing my 600-pages book about the history of Atlantis hypotheses I deeply delved into the question of Nazi occultism, and I melted down my findings into 70 pages of my book (published 2016).

The core idea is: The Nazi ideology and its adherents were less based on occult ideas than many think. Heinrich Himmler is almost the only leading Nazi believing in such things. And he kept his ideas privately, having personal contacts with Atlantis searchers, but no official dealing with the topic. Hitler even held a speech mocking Atlantis searchers. Etc. etc.

And I can absolutely confirm Jason's diagnosis: The idea of Nazi occultism became more and more exaggerated after the war. One reason is very simple: Everybody searched for a understandable reason for the evil which happened.

My book is available in German, only, but I produced an English presentation video about it, which you can find on the book's page (scrolling down a bit):
https://www.atlantis-scout.de/atlantis-geschichte-hypothesen.htm

The Nazi ideology was mainly based on the ideas of Richard Wagner and especially his son-in-law Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Richard Wagner got many of his ideas from French thinkers. Hannah Arendt, in her book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" also describes very well, how France was the laboratory of many of the political ideas which became Europe's fate in the 20th century.

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E.P. Grondine
8/27/2017 11:53:34 am

I strongly disagree with your conclusions,
and think both your research and analysis
are both very limited and very faulty.

While Hitler's own personal beliefs evolved from his period in Vienna and his first contact with the German variety of theosophist conmen;
and then evolved again from those of the theosphist conmen who were the founders of the Nazi Party;
with him finally arriving at the "science" of "Eugenics":

There is no doubt that their theosophist concepts were at very root of that evil, horrid mess,
and that on a vvery deep level those theosophist concepts were at Hitler's core.

It is very clear that you have not read the personal accounts of those in conversational contact with him, and that you need to do much further research, and that your analysis thus rests on a very very limited base.

The introduction of religious analysis explains the insanity of the Nazis, the religious fervour of its adherents, and much else:
we're looking dealing at cult mind control tools used on a national scale, with a theosophist coherent delusional framework being used.

If you really want to continue with this line of research,
and do it in depth,
you may want to consider taking a look at the Jesuit Father Walsh's work in the United States during this period.

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T. Franke link
8/27/2017 04:05:41 pm

@E.P. Grondine:

We deeply disagree.

My view is this: Adolf Hitler formed his "weltanschauung" mainly on the basis of the "Schönerer" movement, before (!) he came to Vienna. The Schönerer movement was anti-semitic, and Schönerer was an aficionado of Richard Wagner & family, as later Adolf Hitler.

Also most other high-ranking Nazis were not inclined to theosophic ideas. Heinrich Himmler was indeed an exception. But National Socialism was Hitlerism, not Himmlerism. And eugenics as Hitler understood it .... come on .... eugenics is nothing occult, it is simply pseudo-science!

If Hitler believed in these things, then it is really a good question, why he never expressed it, and even held a speech mocking Atlantis searchers ....

I know that there is a lot of misinformation out there. So I can well understand that it is not easy to find a way through the jungle of misinformation.

E.P. Grondine
8/28/2017 12:59:03 pm

Yes, we do disagree.

From what i've read,
the closest one can get
to Hitler's inner thinking comes from
his after dinner conversations,
and his private briefings,
not from his public pronouncements,
which after all were carefully designed.

If you go through those materials,
I am pretty sure you will come to
very different conclusions about the topic.

T. Franke link
8/28/2017 01:34:10 pm

@E.P. Grondine:

No, I do not. Sorry. To the contrary. The table talks of Hitler reveal a character who rejects any kind of speculations and laughs at persons like Himmler.

Only in his very recent years Hitler starts to think about Hörbiger's "Welteislehre" e.g. - But what Hitler thought in his very last years is not of importance. Important is, what lead him to racism, anti-semitism, anti-humanism, mass-murdering, and warfare, and this is based on ideas prior to his very last years, naturally.

E.P. Grondine
8/29/2017 09:27:29 am

Hi T. -

Yes, it is very important to understand how Hitler came to his thinking, and its development over time, and for that matter his overalll psychological states. That is why I must protest what I see as serious deficiencies in you work and conclusions.

While you are looking to a general German cultural movement during Hitler's time in Vienna, you do not examine the specific personal influences on Hitler at that time, which are well known among those familiar with them.

Moving on to the postwar period, Hitler did not function in a vacuum, and how you cold dismiss or belittle the theosophic influences on the original founders of the Nazi Party is beyond any explanation from me.

I went through the available materials years ago for the second volume of my "History of Cosmonautics", on the V-2. I now have far more important historical work to do, but from what Jason writes, and you yourself state, I can not endorse your conclusions.

T. Franke link
8/29/2017 02:07:37 pm

@E.P. Grondine:

The Schönerer movement was the first and main influence on Hitler, and the theosophic stuff was not. This is, what academic research has brought to light. Look at Goodrick-Clarke, or Hitler's biography by Joachim Fest e.g., or Hannah Arendt, or other academic literature.

You do not have to be influenced by Blavatsky, in order to be a racist. One reason for the assumption that Theosophy had a major influence on Hitler etc. is the wrong idea that there is a special explanation needed for the crimes of National Socialism. But no. No special explanation is needed.

If you really need a *special* explanation for the crimes of National Socialism, then let me offer you this: Germans tend to be more consequent than others. Then and now. Racists exist everywhere on the world, and they existed even before Blavatsky ever wrote any book. But they are not as consequent as German racists were, when at power.

With Blavatsky you are clearly on the wrong track.

E.P. Grondine
8/29/2017 09:31:59 pm

Good evening, Herr Franke -

We owe to those who were killed by them the best explanation
we can develop for them.

Once again, I disagree with your apparat, and point out to you that you have put forth a simple monolithic view of German (and Austrian) gestalt and weltschaung which ignores the facts of the highly diverse society which existed in Vienna and also at other places in other times.

If Jason will send you my email, I will be happy to send you a copy of the second volume of my History of Cosmonautics. While a large amount of new materials have come to my attention since I assembled it, my German has been hit pretty hard by my stroke.

In the meantime, I note that most rational historians have trouble dealing with the irrational, and leave you for now with my observation that insanity has a logic all its own.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
8/25/2017 06:54:34 pm

Of course, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, in The Occult Roots of Nazism and Black Sun, said long ago that occultism was a peripheral influence on Nazism and that neo-Nazis emphasize occult beliefs much more strongly than their predecessors did. Kurlander must be aware of Goodrick-Clarke's work, though maybe he thinks there are grounds to disagree with it.

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Riley V
8/26/2017 01:52:13 am

Thank you.
Even though the American Government doesn't force Christian Nationalism or End Times Christianity these movements do influence our country. Only one GOP candidate would admit to believing in Evolution, and one openly believes in the Seven Mountains Philosophy.
You may know more than I do (very likely), but I can't remember the nomination of a non-Christian nominated by either major party for president.

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
8/26/2017 02:14:36 am

That is correct. All major-party presidential nominees have been at least nominally Christian, although some presidents have been pretty lax in their church attendance. Two Jews have come somewhat close to the presidency: Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000, and Bernie Sanders, who came close to a presidential nomination during the 2016 primaries.

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Americanegro
8/26/2017 03:03:28 am

Just goes to show that we're not a "Judeo-Christian" country but to be fair "my Muslim faith" who thinks the muezzin's call to prayer is the most beautiful sound in the world did get the nomination twice.

And I would argue that Mormons are the only people who consider Mormons Christian. So Romney's a non-Christian.

Zoroaster
8/28/2017 11:35:01 am

Religion in politics. It's a very unnerving situation in the USA. Most republicans don't believe in evolution and a whole giant list of other denials. This is what happens when the Religious Right and the crazy teabaggers take over the party.

dnns234
8/26/2017 06:19:13 am

I've often noticed that history educators, when educating their pupils on Nazi-Germany, forget to mention that the racial theories of the Nazis were highly pseudoscientific and incosistent.

The result is, that, even to this day, lot of people (not just white supremacists) think that there actually is such a thing as an 'Aryan race' and that blonde-haired, blue-eyed people are somehow the prime specimens thereof.

I'm from Northern Europe myself, and I've noticed that a lot of US-citizens with a WASP-background still seem to think that they are superior to 'other whites'. I've even come across the term 'white adjacent' (i.e. people with an Eastern European or Southern European background).

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E.P. Grondine
8/27/2017 11:26:36 am

Nothing demonstrates W.K. C. Guthrie's observation that religions which embrace re-incarnation are inherently racist than the Nazi's genocide.

We ignore this lesson at our peril.

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Americanegro
8/27/2017 07:40:32 pm

That makes no sense.

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E.P. Grondine
8/28/2017 01:01:33 pm

AN -

Perhaps if you read Guthrie's "Orpheus and Greek Religion"
it will make sense to you.

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Americanegro
8/28/2017 04:16:49 pm

That suggests you're unable to explain your argument and how the book connects to it. Bluff called.

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E.P. Grondine
8/29/2017 09:08:51 am

Read Guthrie's book.

Americanegro
8/29/2017 02:04:31 pm

That suggests you're unable to explain your argument and how the book connects to it. Bluff called.

E.P. Grondine
8/30/2017 10:37:29 am

AN - Guthrie stated the case better than I ever could.
The book exists, and thus if you refuse to read it,
then you are the one "bluffing".

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Americanegro
9/8/2017 01:25:11 am

That suggests you're unable to explain your argument and how the book connects to it. Bluff called.

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