If I am not mistaken many there are those who say that the Nazi's were the inherties of Rousseau and Hegel (but I am not so sure about that one). Of course many also claim that Nietzsche inspired the Nazis and that he himslef was a proto facisst/Nazi.
Do you think that Nazism inherited anything from Christianity?
+Antistar211 Ha! A big problem nowadays is the over-use of the term, "Nazi". People make believe they can see Nazis everywhere, which is also a feature of their own personalities splitting, and them projecting their fears onto others, and make believing that these fears have a basis for existence in people outside of themselves. Sadly, the liberal left is so confused about this issue that is mislabels legitimate dangers, such as that stemming from Islamic extremism, as purely safe, whilst mislabelling me and people like me as Nazis. I am nothing of the sort, but there is the fear that if I grew up in a certain environment, I must have been given the growth hormones to become a Nazi. Really, absolutely I would have had to have embraced the ideology, and joined with those who were also Nazis--because group think and mob mentality is also inseparable from Naziism. A person on their own, struggling to make sense of it all, is absolutely not a Nazi.
I think the thing it inherited from Christian tradition was the notion that Jews were Christ killers. Interestingly, Bataille takes up this very issue in stern opposition to the myth. He states that the fundamental problem with Christianity is that its idea of goodness is maintained at the cost of implying that someone else, apart from the Christians themselves, killled Christ. Christians disavow their own human natures and project their evil onto others, therefore Christianity is false. We are all capable of being Christ killers, and the fact is that the human sacrifice on which Christianity is predicated is also part of primeval religiousity. As we can see, this is once again an issue of primitive defence mechanisms -- the spllitting of one's good and evil aspects, so that the evil can be projected onto nefarious outsiders. Anything that does this produces cognitive distortions and a superficial goodness, without any deep knowledge or deep content.
Do you think that Nazism inherited anything from Christianity?