The REAL Religion behind National Socialism

There is a huge historical debate over what type of religion National Socialism was. Some think it's pagan, others think it's Christian, but it turns out that it's something else. This video will explain what it is and provide evidence along the way.

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ABOUT TIK 📝

History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.

[TheImperatorKnight]

(He released this an hour and a half after I published this video! What are the odds!)

[hobblesofkarth]

Really appreciate the use of 40k, meme imagery, and other artwork to both illustrate, add levity, and empathize and every combination! It takes a skilled orator to add levity and engagement without compromising their argument.

[bojanbukovski]

Honestly, this is mind-opening. Color me mind blown. Thank you for explaning Tik.

[GeographyCzar]

OK, hit the brakes for moment on St. John. John's epistles attacked early Gnosticism explicitly. The Revelation of St. John is NOT THE SAME as the Gospel of John (which in turn is not the same as the epistles - 1st John, 2nd John, and 3rd John). And no, St. John did not believe all those Gnostic heresies TIK mentions, he attacked some of them in his epistle letters. The "Revelation of St. John" has often been questioned as potentially pseudopigraphic, and therefore noncanonical, but it echoes much of what was revealed in the Old Testament books of Daniel and Ezekiel, so most Christian Churches accept it. And nothing in The Revelation is openly Gnostic, so it can be argued that the Gnostics simply laid claim to it in order to make their own beliefs appear orthodox (not to be confused with Orthodox).

[estebanmunoz]

Bro… i just found your channel… now my only question is: what do I tell my boss tomorrow when I don’t go to work because I stay home and do a marathon of your videos? Thanks for the amazing work…

[el]

Sounds interesting, not many other content creators talk about this topic!

[noahdanielg]

As a Religious Studies student and World War II history fanatic, my two life obsessions come together in this video!

[jamestaylorb]

Watching from Hong Kong. Stayed up to watch the new episode just in time of being released. TIK is simply the best and most analytical Youtube channel out there. Thanks for your hard work week by week!

[dereklangseth]

Note how Irenaeus of Lyons wrote several books called "against heresies" around 200 AD where he refutes the gnostics.

[cctkid]

More people need to see this, and James Lindsay's podcasts on gnosticism and the roots it has in the current climate. Once you realize that the reason all these awful ideologies operate a lot like religion is because they ARE a religion things start to make more sense and they are more easily combatible.

[matthewmele]

This is fascinating! I grew up in Scientology, and through this i can see that Scientology is in the same religious category as well.

[IrishTechnicalThinker]

As a Christian myself, I love these types of videos. I read lots of bible lore and research demonology, I read a lot of intelligent design writers like Harvard PhD Stephen Meyr and Oxford professor John Lennox. In their books they speak chapters on how esoteric faiths drop one faith, only to pick up another one. As Tolkien said, Evil cannot create, it can only imitate what good has already created and corrupt it."

[Zomfoo]

So many error in this, especially Gnosticism in the New Testament.

[ladosdominik]

In the defense of Revelations: the book is very clearly against Gnosticism, as the main claim of the 1000 year old reign and many more, is that humans try to create heaven oj Earth and God crush them. Its not humans, who make God come down, and its not humans reaching out to God.

[theadventuresofred]

In the last video TIK was concerned that all these masterpieces will be lost when YouTube pulls the plug. I think it's important that these videos are transcribed and printed to keep them as true artefacts. I am sure that the TIK-Tech community could arrange to do this or download and retain the videos on separate platforms.

[DerekPower]

Don't worry, this is just to make clear something you brought up =]

The reason why Gnosticism is seen as heretical - even with Augustine and such =] - is that God created the heavens and the earth and call it good and created Man and call it very good. The material is a creation of God and should be honoured as such. The issue is when you make the material way more than what it is supposed to be and especially when it runs contrary to God. That's the nutshell version =]

[JPGoertz]

Really very enlightening. Thank you. As a German Roman Catholic and Philosophy teacher (after a career in military and international affairs), this is truly a good summary of the Gnostic problem. It is vital in order to understand current affairs and history to dig deeper into people's believes, whether they be religious or philosophic. Also our current situation seems like a re-iteration of this theme...

[DoomSker]

Hey Tik, here we go! ...
As a Catholic who studies theology as a hobby, I have a few comments off the top of my head, for the sake of CURIOSITY, that I might make to give you a taste of the Catholic worldview (which is substantially different from the Protestant view and, therefore, I hope that they do not get frustrated or start a long discussion on the merits of religion itself, as the focus is Gnosticism and nothing else), aiming for, and nothing else, to incite a light, as one cannot study theology without touching Gnosticism in some way or moment (and I am even grateful that you have brought into focus this problem that we, Catholics, have been fighting on for a long time, inside and outside the Church).
Over the centuries, the Church has waged a constant struggle against countless Gnostic heresies, each one putting on a cover and generally making use of either the old paganism and philosophies of distant origin from Greece, or the pagans who invaded Europe during the the Middle Ages or, and perhaps more relevantly today, a countless number of secret groups and sects from Renaissance onwards. It is worth mentioning that, as an exemple pointed out in your video, there was a number of theologians and other priests and bishops, especially as scholasticism decayed after Saint Thomas Aquinas, and came the Black Death and the Western schism (culminating in the deplorable 15th century), who were all certainly traitors to the doctrine of the Church that, later and together, many ended up literally schism on the Protestant Reformation. Anyway, it is not new that the Church is attacked from the outside and from within, as well as the West (the Freemasons, as mentioned in the video, waged a long fight to demolish the old order and especially its values, achieving great success). I think it's worth mentioning that a brief search on crappy Wikipedia will give to you a list of condemned heresies that have Gnosticism in their veins.
Gnosticism, which can be seen as man going by his strength and his knowledge to God, with human action at the center for his salvation (not needing grace or Divine forgiveness) tends, in my view, together with another cancer that is Nominalism (the killer of theology and classical philosophy), to create in man a fetishism for idolizing knowledge and with it manipulate all creation to either annihilate it (the Cathars are an example), or alter it to “evolve” (thus entering Millenarianism, another heresy!, ) falling on the idea that man, like a machine, can be psychologically predicted, controlled and changeable by eugenics/transhumanism; falling into a determinism by excluding the ontological being of things; falling on ideas such as economic, social and even religious control; and falling on a progressive worldview, where everything that happens is “to a better world that is coming”, as if the perfection of life on earth was up to man himself to create it (man bringing paradise to earth), always through a revolution (today with subversion), which is a sudden and violent change of things, from which something better will come out of the carcass of the old (that is like killing and killing to create a world of good men)... In the case of socialism in its forms, I see Hegel as a screaming pivot of the gnostic vision cautiously applied to a philosophy already made with a dangerous matrix as it's base... Anyway, this is a gigantic topic that I am not qualified for and I also speak from the head, giving an opinion...
It is worth mentioning, as a detail, that Saint Augustine was especially a Manichaean (a type of syncretist Gnosticism (it seems that ALL Gnosticism is syncretist, because yes, it is a parasitic religion-philosophy)). And regarding his criticism of Saint John (and here comes the religious controversy!, ) no Saint in the Church can be perfect. Saints make mistakes in theological (not doctrinal!) matters that are not serious, which is easily proven by observing all the theological discussion in the Middle Ages between them. Sainthood is correlated with one's morals, faith, and love, not knowledge. Furthermore, Saint Augustine was contemporary with the Church's discussions to form the Biblical canon, and there were, at that time, an enormous amount of discussion and trouble about it (including heretics such as the Gnostics themselves within the Church arguing the intrusion of a bunch of apocryphal books, which were a bunch of contradictory crap, in the New Testament).
I, personally, find it absurd to impute a heresy to Saint John (or even Saint Paul), both because of the action of the Holy Spirit in them (yes, I have faith) and because the former lived with Christ, listening to explanations directly from him. On the day of Pentecost, all the present disciples of Christ received the Holy Spirit and, therefore, knowledge and some divine interpretation (Acts 2.4 Including that “they spoke in other tongues.”) The problem is not in receiving information from God, since there are countless examples of important people in and out (by miracles) of the Bible who received something, even a single word (which constitutes “information”). Gnosticism is not just about information, but also about action to accomplish something supposedly prophesied. In no way does the Church try to accomplish with her own strength what is written in the Book of Revelation, and no one in their right mind should try to do so.
As it is common in all heresy, excerpts from the sacred scriptures are kidnapped to support a crazy belief, denying other beliefs in return and, if possible, using the prestige of saints, theologians and pastors of the Church. Then comes the question: If it is a problem of interpretation, how to verify if a Protestant pastor or a Catholic priest is Gnostic? The doctrine of the Church, supported by tradition and the later Bible, not by the mouth of a priest or a pope (who can say a lot of nonsense)... But if I follow this road, we’ll go outside the topic.
As I said, Tik (or any other patient reader), I just wanted to sum up my side. I still haven't watched the lecture that was recommended in this video (it's too long!, ) and I won't give sources because this text shouldn't be taken seriously... I find it interesting for someone to touch on a subject as forgotten today as Gnosticism, as I have the impression that only half a dozen of traditional Catholics still remember that this curse of thought still exists… Anyway, sorry for the bad english.

[nco_gets_it]

45 years ago--in college--we went through the concepts behind secret societies, mystery religions, Mesopotamian and Egyptian history and the prof took us through various writings spanning a time from roughly 1200 BC to the 1970s. I walked away from that semester with a new appreciation of the enlightenment as well as where these political ideologies come from.

What I found most interesting was that for the most part, no one in those movements is aware of any of this. In fact, they often attribute to open religions and societies these attributes of being "secret gnosis". In its most current form (wokeness), it goes even a step further and ascribes every act of every person from the mundane to the remarkable to this membership in the "evil" groups.

This is why the entire woke mindset is so appealing to the so called elites--it is a basis of power--and the hoi polloi because it gives them someone to blame for their own inadequacies.

For a true history scholar, one might study up on Nimrod...

[thepredator]

Hey Tik, glad you decided to go through with the video despite the possibility of stepping on toes.
And as a Christian I found it very interesting to see how Christianity relates to gnosticism, it was especially interesting to re-read John 1:3 as I had never realised what it had actually said before, goes to prove that we can always learn more.