Paul Bennett UPDATED

I've made a mistake with Paul Bennett. He isn't who I thought he was. He's emailed me with his private details and I believe him.

His latest comments (which were deleted) are below:

Firstly, I thought I’d share a quote from Hitler taken from the same source that Ropata used for his quote that he posted earlier.

Hitler was opposed to atheism because he was a spiritual man: “atheism… is a return to the state of the animal…” (Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 59).

Now I thought I’d share a link to the following site:
http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm

Now, to put the contents of this site in perspective, it uses material from the following sources and more, including “Hitler’s Table Talk” where the initial quote came from.

My post may be deleted, again, but I’m only attempting to show the evidence that actually exists.

I realise, that people may not like the evidence, but if you choose to ignore it, I do feel that it shows a similar attitude to that displayed by “Holocaust Deniers”.

List of some of the sources used on the site:

Steigmann-Gall, Richard “The Holy Reich: Nazi Conception of Christianity, 1919-1945”, Cambridge University Press, 2003

Carroll, James, “Constantantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews”, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001

Goldhagen, Daniel Johah , “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”, Alfred A. Knoph, NY, 1996

Wollenberg, Jorg, Ed., “The German Public and the Persecution of the Jews 1933-1945: No One Participated, No One Knew”, (Chapter: When the Witnesses Were Silent, The Confessing Church and the Jews, by Wolfgang Gerlach), Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1996

Neumann, Johann, “1945: The German Churches Before and Afterwards”, 1995

Snyder, Louis L., “Hitler’s Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich’s Most Notorious Henchmen”, " Berkley Books, 1990

Helmreich, Ernst Christian, “The German Churches Under Hitler”, Wayne State University Press, 1979

Toland, John, “Adolf Hitler”, Anchor Books Doubleday, 1976

Hitler, Adolf, “Mein Kampf”, translated by Ralph Manheim, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971

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Lucia Maria,
Firstly, thanks for re-posting my comments on your blog, I really appreciate it.
Secondly, as I commented to Matt Flannagan over on the M&M blog, after I’d seen him in real life debate Dr Raymond Bradley at Auckland University on August 2nd, I realise how inadequate the internet can be for debate.
Thirdly, as Richard Dawkins said in his response to the Pope outrageous speech in Edinburgh, blaming atheism for Hitler, one can’t help feeling that the gloves are off. So, to say the least, I was more than a little angry when I posted. Which, of course, can influence your perspective.
Finally, I have been giving a lot of thought to what was said and the associated evidence posted by both sides. I’ve reposted the second quote that Ropata posted from the Conservative Colloqium site:
“Hitler was NOT a Christian. He hated Christianity. If he made any public remarks in support of Christianity, that was because he was in public and would lie or obfuscate to appease a crowd at times. Hitler was opposed to atheism because he was a spiritual man: “atheism… is a return to the state of the animal…” (Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 59). But opposition to atheism doesn’t make anyone a Christian. Nazism was his religion, an authentic religion of his own creation.
Re-reading it and others, I’m inclined to think that he was not an atheist or a christian, he was just what you would imagine him to be, an extremely manipulative, politician who used whatever means he needed to to gain ultimate power.
What is telling, with regard to that is: “an authentic religion of his own creation”.

So, given all that, I’m personally still in favour of a humanist/rationalist approach to life, that is extremely sceptical of organised religion in any form.