Gottgläubig

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In Nazi Germany, gottgläubig (German: [ˈɡɔtˌɡlɔʏbɪç] or [ˈɡɔtˌɡlɔʏbɪk] , lit. 'believing in God') was a Nazi religious term for a form of non-denominationalism and deism or theism practised by those German citizens who had officially left Christian churches but professed faith in some higher power or divine creator. Such people were called Gottgläubige ("believers in God"), and the term for the overall movement was Gottgläubigkeit ("belief in God"); the term denotes someone who still believes in a god, although without having any institutional religious affiliation. These Nazis were not favourable towards religious institutions of their time, nor did they tolerate atheism of any type within their ranks. The 1943 Philosophical Dictionary defined gottgläubig as: "official designation for those who profess a kind of piety and morality appropriate to the German species, without being bound to a church denomination, whilst however also rejecting irreligion and godlessness." The Gottgläubigkeit...

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