If you look at
Hitlers Attitude Toward Religion, you'll find that it was more political influenced than religious. Hitler was for anything "Pro-Germany", and since Christianity didn't meet his standards, he desided to discard it (Jesus was a Jew). He was more interested in i.e. Northern Mythology, since that were more to his belief that Germans were descendants of an Arian race.
To blame it on Darwin and TOE is moot. Most of todays Evos believe that man originated in Africa, so surely no one of them would even consider the Nazi beliefs (or they don't know their evolution theory well enough).
Hitler himself was interested in holy relics in general and the
Lance of Longinus in particular. He even mentions it in "Mein Kampf", as I understand. So to say that Nazism doesn't have any religious influences, is also wrong (although it was more a "powertrip" thing than a religious thing, I believe).
The ONLY religion which serves as a philosophical basis for that sort of thing is evolutionism
Evolutionism is not a religion by the way. It is a scientific theory that is the best scientific explanation we have on how everything came to be. Cynic1 describes it well in "What religious rights, if any, are currently being eroded in the USA?"-thread:
EvC Forum: What religious rights, if any, are currently being eroded in the USA?
Regards,
SkepticScand
[This message has been edited by SkepticScand, 04-25-2004]