No, a theist is anyone who believes in any kind of god.
A theist, to my mind, is somebody who follows a religion." "With regard to Hitler's religion the word I would have used is deist rather than theist.
" Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minster of Israel – David Ben-Guriom was the first." It's not like I was saying Stalin himself physically signed the treaty. Molotov was acting as Stalin's foreign minister. "the Nazi-Soviet pact was signed by the Russian Premier – Molotov – not Stalin." Those minor (two frankly pedantic) points aside, I enjoyed it very much. That's a book on the subject I found worth reading if you can get a copy. In it, Hastings argues for religiosity on a sort of affiliate Catholicism up to about 1924, with his time in prison changing that to a looser belief in Providence. I'm not sure if you have ever read Hastings, Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism. However, I wonder if perhaps you went a bit far in saying Hitler only used his rhetoric on the subject as a campaigning tool. However Burleigh – who may be a Catholic but is also a reputable historian who actually speaks German – came down on the side of 'a form of deism' in his book Sacred Causes. Carrier – your friend and mine (!) actually tried to argue in a 2015 afterword to his article on the subject that the Goebbels quote referred exclusively to Catholicism (which is of course utter rubbish, but seems to have gone over well with his fellow historically illiterate amateur followers – he also repeated his patent lie that Irving had never denied the Holocaust). A deist, by contrast, believes in some form of higher being but does not subscribe to any particular sort of god (Thomas Jefferson, for example, or Anthony Flew). A theist, to my mind, is somebody who follows a religion. If I were to be very picky I would make three points:ġ) the Nazi-Soviet pact was signed by the Russian Premier – Molotov – not Stalin.Ģ) Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minster of Israel – David Ben-Guriom was the first.ģ) With regard to Hitler's religion the word I would have used is deist rather than theist. A most interesting podcast, Mr O'Neill, as ever – thank you.
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