re: #88 Nyet

He was a “nominal Christian”, certainly not any kind of a “serious believer” or a fundamentalist. In his manifesto he laid out his doubts about God, so calling him an agnostic is not far-fetched. A Christian agnostic, if you will. By no means did he do what he did for Christianity.

It’s sort of like Hitler. Sure, Hitler was a Christian. But he wasn’t driven by Christianity (being influenced by the historical Christian antisemitism and being driven by religious precepts are very different things), his Christianity was heterodox in comparison to his environment, it could be called a “liberal” version (in the sense of non-fundamentalist, not sticking to traditional conservative interpretations), with free interpretation of the Bible, knocking down of Paul, reinterpreting Jesus as he himself saw fit, etc. - i.e. what we see many non-fundie Christians doing.