The nazis, the national Socialists. . . were as antichristian and as secularist as were their international socialist rivals in Russia. like the French and Russian Socialists before them, the national Socialists had their intellectual roots in the anti-christian secularist philosophies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though the nazis preferred the anti-christianity of nietzsche to the anti-christianity of marx. like other secularists, the nazis believed that big problems require Big government to solve them; like other secularists, the nazis imposed a national curriculum, ensuring that all children were “educated” to conform to the government’s own beliefs; like other secularists, the nazis believed in eugenics and euthanasia and encouraged abortion (except for members of the master Race). like other secularists, the nazis hated christianity, condemning countless christians to concentration camps. the evidence is clear enough. Secularism in any of its guises is deadly. and yet, in spite of the catalogue of horrors that it has unleashed on humanity, the same ugly brand of secularism is in the ascendant in both europe and the united States. When will we ever learn? the unsettling answer is that we will never learn until we learn to respect history and the lessons it teaches.