Regarding this post:

The Goebbels Diaries 1939-1941, translated and edited by Fred Taylor:
p 304:
"(Hitler) "hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity. According to Schopenhauer, Christianity and syphilis have made humanity unhappy and unfree."

This is only one side of the story. You should read what Hitler has to say about atheists.
He also invokes a god in Mein Kampf. As to Hitler's position on Christianity or any other religion, can one actually take anything someone as disturbed as Hitler seriously?

Actually, history is fraught with many religious or pseudo-religious leaders who invoke their version of what god is and usually put themselves at the apex of their "movement".
I heartily disagree that there is a definable atheist movement which would be like the proverbial "herding cats". If you actually listen to what Dawkins, Dennet Harris, and Hitchens say about atheism, you would find considerable differences in their points-of-view. Most of the religious attack squad would not take the time to take into consideration what these men have to say on the subject.

In the meantime, attack ads such as "the atheist delusion" offer no concrete examples how atheism is delusional or why a religious belief system is sane.

History is often cherry-picked selectively to support a point of view. But it's the blind man and the elephant. In this case, history is used as a propaganda mechanism.




That about says it:   that was the parallel for the Nazis:   Christianity and syphilis, the twin plagues.

I wonder how many of our Mudcat atheists would share this view.