Has Hitler replaced Satan?

[Michie]

An interesting article. I was not sure where to post this so I dropped it here. I’d be interested to hear any thoughts on this. I thought Satan had been dismissed, not replaced.

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Hitler has replaced Satan as the true Devil in our post-Christian society, and more in this week's digest.​

Deeply troubled musician Kanye West released a new single last week called “Heil <you know who>.” The song was promptly banned from every major music streaming service (which of course turned it into a huge internet sensation).

The song isn’t actually about Hitler. Hunter Ash on X posted an interesting analysis of it:

Kanye does us the favor of being quite explicit about his thought process in this song, so minimal extrapolation is needed: despite all his money and fame, he can’t see his kids, a primal human need. So he’s declared war on the entire postwar liberal order.
I should say that he is obviously crazy. I recognize his madness because I see it in myself: highly sensitive, highly reactive, prone to extremes. And that’s probably why he lost custody. But from his perspective, society awarded his mind with international fame and billions of dollars, yet he doesn’t have the same right to a family as the average janitor. That’s an inherently schizophrenic state of affairs, and I understand how it would produce bitterness. They’ll use his madness to make money, but also use it to take from him any hope of a fulfilling life.
So he’s given up on fitting in to the world as it is, and seeks to destroy it. His invocation of Hitler is not about some considered endorsement of the tenets of national socialism. It’s a form of secular satanism. He correctly perceives that Hitler is the devil of the modern west, much more so than Satan. He hates what society has done to him, so he adopts the maximally oppositional stance. [emphasis added]

Ash makes an insightful observation: Hitler has replaced Satan as the true Devil in our post-Christian society.

Continued below.

Secular Satanism

Hitler has replaced Satan as the true Devil in our post-Christian society, and more in this week's digest.

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[lifepsyop]

Without a doubt.

Satan is openly celebrated in our society and nobody really cares. However even remotely implying that Hitler was anything but Pure Evil is enough to get you non-personed. Its a sign of the secular religion that replaced Christianity after World War 2. (and that Christians have more or less acquiesced to as the ultimate framing of morality)

In our society you can mass distribute pornography, promote homosexuality to kids, you can rob people, you can even kill people, and do all manner of evil, and it's not viewed anywhere near as bad as having even a slightly sympathetic view of Hitler.

At least that's been the reigning ideology for the last couple of generations. It is beginning to break apart.

Who knows... people may begin to fear God again more than they fear being called a racist/nazi?

 

[Tuur]

The thing about making a person the epitome of evil is that deep down we can tell ourselves that we could never be as wicked. However bad we may be, we tell ourselves "At least I'm not a Hitler/Stalin/Mao/what have you." The last thing anyone wants to hear is that as evil as these men were, they also had a human side. They react with anger, as though being human made them less evil, but I think more that if someone with a human side could be a monster, we could be just as monstrous. Following WWII, there was a psychological study made of members of the Nazi party, and about the mid-1970s it was released to the public. The disturbing thing is they were not psychologically different that the average person.

 

[Tuur]

Hit reply too soon.

If the thought that we could be just as capable of evil is disturbing, ask how Satan fell, then ask what are we doing when we insist that our will and not God's is done.

 

[johansen]

Hitler was the opposite of lawlessness, the problem was he was just the wrong end of the political horseshoe at the time. -he made up the rules, you followed them or you did not, and paid the consequences. You could also look at the situation as an over reach of the state compared to historical norms. but the reality is the end of every empire is pretty similar. they either fizzle out and are conquered by another, or they are united and are destroyed in a losing battle.

The LGBTQIA+ which is.. sexual identity lawlessness.. is the opposite of hitler, which had all the gays killed and promoted heterosexual only have children for the benefit of the aryian? race.

Who, besides hitler, and moses, had all the homosexuals killed? And made it a crime or heavily restricted interracial unions? Obviously every tribe and culture has had this problem occasionally, but to the extent it was codified in their culture and laws for more than 100 years?.. or are we afraid to say who had this problem?

I mean systemic nation wide edict, not individuals in a local town.