I see it as self improvement applied at the group level

improving Us instead of improving Me

there is no such thing as "spiritual belief" only faith

Call it what you will, it's required.

how

It's known Hitler and the Pagan LARP'er Himmler, detested Athiesm.

Athiests were kicked out of the movement, this is a fact.

there was a connection between Atheism and communism at the time

Hitler and Himmler frequently cited some kind of 'providence'.

but they were essentially atheists as well in that they didn't believe in any God

Not to mention SS rituals.

Which had a belief in higher beings.

LOL the Nazis weren't atheists, that's a well-known fact.

their "God" was an image of their own past, or future

Nazism is an atheistic ideology

It's not.

yes it is, you cannot be a Nazi and a Christian for instance

It requires faith.

freethinking movements, atheism etc. were linked to communism

but what is the nazi faith?

Keep in mind, National Socialist idealogy originates from Volkisch belief and esotericsm.

originates from, sure

just like a lot of modern liberalism originates from protestant christianity

understand @Jigsaw that he does not recognize anything non-abrahamic as a religion

wrong

its really simple, adhere to a true faith (any historical faith)

he essentially sees nazism as just man's pride attempting to reach for heaven without god's sanction, another tower of babel

and you are religious

that's about right

its a falsely utopian ideology just like communism

Nazism doesn't really stand for anything, it stands against some bad things

but in itself, its not really anything except common sense, false solidarity, and control

keep in mind also that fallot is a pakistani muslim

it would have inevitably devolved into totalitarianism

I'd say an esoteric belief in a greater being or beings is the ''National Socialist religion'', a return to Germanic paganism in a way, at least it was for Himmler and Rosenberg.

they did not TRULY adhere to these though

it wasn't germanic paganism, it was aryan paganism

did they have the same mindset as the pagans they larped?

that's an important distinction to make

no, it was an original occultist ritualistic thing

more akin to freemasonry than any pagan belief