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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "creative force" mean "supernatural force that creates life"?
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materialist outlook, that believed science had already discredited Christianity and would ultimately destroy all myths - but he continued to speak of "Providence" to support his own myth:
materialist outlook, that believed science had already discredited Christianity and would ultimately destroy all myths - but he continued to speak of "Providence" to support his own myth:
Hitler's own myth had to be protected, and this led him, like Napoleon, to speak frequently of Providence, as a necessary if unconscious projection of his sense of destiny which provided him with both justification and absolution. 'The Russians', he remarked on one occasion 'were entitled to attack their priests, but they had no right to assail the idea of a supreme force. It's a fact that we're feeble creatures and that a creative force exists'".
— Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_Stalin:_Parallel_Lives by Alan Bullock
Top answer
It means a force that has the power to create.
- It means a force that has the power to create.
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It's an historical reference to a time when Social Darwinism in the form of Industrial Materialism was sweeping across Europe, while the Bolshevik Revolution was declaring itself the True Science of Human Existence (Labor over Capital) where the concept of a Divine Being (ergo Divine Royalty) was 'dead'. Hitler had to counter that with his deeply religious populace by referring to a “Creative For
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