White Supremacism is Not a Christian Ideology

The_Underground_Man
Most of its greatest leaders were atheists.
Most of its greatest leaders were atheists.

There seems to be this notion among many dimwitted left-wingers that the white supremacist movement is synonymous with Christianity or that its origin is somehow derived from the Bible in the same way that modern terrorist groups are related to Islam. Similarly it is often argued that Nazi Germany was a Christian autocracy or that its ideology was rooted in Christianity. Both of these premises are flawed, and the truth of the matter may actually surprise you.

Background

This isn't an academic journal. I'm not going to waste my time crafting incredibly well-written and formatted articles the way I used to back when I was an editor. Even so, I'm going to list some points, and while I am too lazy to cite most of them, I challenge any reader to fact-check them.

Nazi Ideology was Rooted in Paganism

Heinrich Himmler conducted pagan rituals.
Heinrich Himmler conducted pagan rituals.

While Hitler may have used Christianity in his speeches, the truth of the matter is that the very precepts of Nazi ideology were rooted not in the Bible but in the Teutonic Order, that is, Germany's ancient pagan tradition. Much ink has been spilled over the Third Reich's unusual efforts to recover lost artifacts from its pre-Christian culture and the fact that the occult played a huge role in its administration, so I will not bother exploring that. But it should be noted that Heinrich Himmler, the founder of the infamous Waffen SS, was a neopagan and an anti-theist like Christopher Hitchens who actually prohibited his officers from having Christian weddings. This point can be found in historian Chris McNab's book Hitler's Armies. Furthermore, he was known to conduct pagan rituals and the SS headquarters was actually built upon an ancient pagan holy site.

Savitri Devi, the famous white supremacist who married an Indian guy.
Savitri Devi, the famous white supremacist who married an Indian guy.

Savitri Devi, one of the most influential yet obscure Nazis who ever lived, bridged the gap between the Third Reich and modern white supremacist movements. As such, she was an outspoken atheist or neo-pagan depending upon how you interpret her writings, and she despised Christianity. Not only that, but she believed that its very tenets were incompatible with the white supremacist cause.

Savitri Devi would go on to influence founders of the modern white supremacist movement.
Savitri Devi would go on to influence founders of the modern white supremacist movement.

Savitri Devi is important because her writings formed the ideological basis of the Third Reich and modern white supremacist movements. Incredibly esoteric and mystical in their language, they are basically the Nazi version of the Gospel of John. The amount of influence they had on their ideology is similarly comparable to the influence that St. John's gospel had on early Christian theology. In short, she was a radical environmentalist, pagan, and vegetarian who believed that all of the goals of modern left-wing ideologies like feminism would be accomplished only when Christianity was abolished and Hitler's racial vision accomplished.

Dr. William Luther Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, and an atheist.
Dr. William Luther Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, and an atheist.

The Founders of the White Supremacist Movement were Atheists

This is a point that is often not discussed very often but warrants more attention. The founders of modern white supremacist movements in the United States were actually atheists and outspoken critics of Christianity.

Dr. William Luther Pierce also authored
Dr. William Luther Pierce also authored "The Turner Diaries."

Dr. William Luther Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, was one of the most influential white supremacists in the history of the United States. Not only did he author "The Turner Diaries," the book that would proceed to inspire Tim McVeigh to commit the Oklahoma City Bombing, but he was also an atheist and an outspoken critic of Christianity.

George Lincoln Rockwell was also an atheist.
George Lincoln Rockwell was also an atheist.

George Lincoln Rockwell, another influential white supremacist and founder of the American Nazi Party, was also an atheist.

Here is an excerpt from an influential white supremacist journal criticizing Christianity:

With tremendous zeal the Jews propagated among the Romans a new religion with such suicidal ideas as "turn the other cheek, love your enemies, resist not evil" and other self-destructive philosophies that sapped the strength of the Romans and left them naked and defenseless before their enemies. In a few centuries the great Roman civilization completely disintegrated and was defenseless against the marauding vandals who finally sacked Rome in the year 476 A.D. and Rome was no more.
~"Masters of Deceit"

Here is another excerpt from Dr. William Luther Pierce himself criticizing Christianity:

As I see it...Christianity has a number of elements that are harmful to our people. One of them is its egalitarianism. You know: ‘the meek shall inherit the earth,’ ‘the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.’ It’s the whole Sermon-on-the-Mount idea of putting people down and pulling down those on the top of the heap regardless of how they got there. It is a fundamental part of Christian doctrine, and I think it is detrimental to an ordered society. When you look at Christianity you...see underlying things, like the egalitarian, Bolshevik message in this religion, which is really dangerous and has helped move us to this destructive democratic age.
~Cosmotheism

Deriving its influence from Savitri Devi and the Third Reich, the true ideology underlying white supremacism is cosmotheism. That is, a synthesis between paganism, Darwinian evolution, and this idea of a Universal Fate or Purpose for the white race to be stewards and masters of the Earth. It has more in common with Hinduism than it does Christianity, and is actually opposed to it.

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