From Tour's Article

This quote from Viktor Frankel, lept out at me:

Viktor Frankl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl), a former Auschwitz inmate wrote in The Doctor and the Soul, that the source for much of the 20th Century’s inhumanity has come from the very origins being discussed here.

“If we present a man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present man as an automaton of reflexes, as a mind-machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drives and reactions, as a mere product of instinct, heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone.

“I became acquainted with the last stage of that corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment; or as the Nazi liked to say, ‘of Blood and Soil.’ I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers [emphasis added].”

It should not be forgotten that, just as Wagner was the official NAZI composer, so Nietzsche was the official NAZI philosopher; further, Nietzsche was revered by Lenin. The denial that radical Atheism underlay the 20th century bloodbaths is just false. Suppression of dissent and the radical pursuit of the Will To Power are in full bloom in the USA and western nations - those who fought against such things just 70 years ago. We are now being consumed by them via internal intellectual rot.