High expectations

Will Jesus return? What will he do if he does? Will Jesus make things right? Will there be a showdown between the forces of good and evil? Will evil people burn in hell forever? And what about Buddhists and atheists? They don’t believe in God. And Hindus? They have many gods. Or Jews, Christians and Muslims? Who are the good people, and who are the wicked anyway? The Italian mafia bosses were devout Catholics. The usurers of Goldman Sachs claimed that they were doing God’s work. The Muslims blowing themselves up to murder unbelievers also did. Palestinians murder Jews and Jews murder Palestinians, all in the name of God. US President George Bush claimed that God had ordered him to invade Iraq. So, what might happen if a messiah were to come? Adolf Hitler was a most messianic figure, perhaps the most messianic figure ever, even surpassing Jesus.

So, was Hitler the opposite of Christ, the anti-Christ, or was he like Christ, as many of his followers expect him to be? Will there be a final reckoning in which billions of people die or face eternal torture in hell? The latter is worse than being gassed in a concentration camp, as there is no end to the suffering. For those who think it is an inappropriate remark, life in Gaza in 2025 has become as horrible as in a concentration camp. And Jews did that, and Palestinian terrorism prompted them to do it. Many Jews hope for a final solution to their Palestinian problem, just as many Palestinians hope for a final solution to their Jewish problem. Both groups have their reasons, but so did Adolf Hitler. So, have we learned our lessons? And what are these lessons in the first place?

Europeans have learned in two devastating world wars that nationalism and tribalism are the paths to destruction. It is still in their collective memory. Other continents don’t share that experience, and memories don’t last forever. Nationalists point to the troubles migration and mixing people from different cultures cause, but nationalism leads to warfare and will prove to be fatal in today’s world. Yet, letting different tribes live together under the umbrella of multiculturalism causes similar problems. Normally, we would be doomed in one way or another unless there were a one-world government that dealt with the troublemakers. Most people wouldn’t accept a one-world government. We cooperate through the myths we share. That seems to be the point of a messiah. Humans are a failed and destructive species. Without an inspiring fairy tale and a leader who unites us, we are doomed.

Adolf the Messiah or the Anti-Christ

At first glance, Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler are opposites. Jesus personifies goodness, while Hitler is the epitome of evil. Today, with the rise of fascism, more people view Hitler more favourably, and some outright admire him. Christ stood at the cradle of Christianity, the Religion of Love. Jesus taught that love would overcome hatred. He said, ‘If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.’ And, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.’ Hitler represents Nazism, the ideology of hatred that brought us unprecedented cruelty and revealed the depth of human depravity. As the world is barrelling towards an apocalypse, it is the right time to take a distance and be honest.

Closer inspection reveals a few intriguing parallels between Hitler and Christ. Adolf Hitler’s followers considered him their saviour, and they worshipped him like one. Christians believe that Jesus will descend from heaven and that there will be a rapture at his return (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). Hitler was the first leader to fly around in an aeroplane. He came down from the sky to meet the cheering crowds. Rapture means ecstasy, enthusiasm and admiration. Few people in history caused as much rapture as Hitler. A Nazi slogan was, ‘One people, one empire, one leader.’ Christians and Muslims expect that to happen when Jesus returns. And so, Hitler might foreshadow the Second Coming.

In several ways, Hitler resembled a messiah. He told the Germans they were the chosen people for their superior race. Jews believe they are the chosen people because of a supposed special relationship between God and the Jewish people. Like Moses, Hitler promised to end the unjust oppression, in this case, caused by the Treaty of Versailles. He claimed that his Third Reich would last a thousand years, whereas the Bible says that Christ’s reign would last a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-6). And Hitler inspired the same blind following and loyalty to the death that many Christians expect the Second Coming of Christ would do. Somewhat unsurprisingly, a British intelligence report found that Hitler had a messiah complex.¹

The Nazi ideology has biblical parallels. In traditional agricultural societies, land remained within the family. The Jews were no exception. The Bible says the bond between people and land is not to be broken, and land is not to be sold (Leviticus 25:23). The Nazi ideology of Blood and Soil focuses on ethnicity and homeland and stresses the importance of the land people live on and celebrates rural living. The Nazis made the ownership of selected lands hereditary. Those lands could not be mortgaged or sold. The Nazis sought to return to their Eden, without Jews and other undesirables. The Holocaust became the culmination of centuries of anti-Semitism fed by prejudices in popular culture.

The Nazis objected to degenerate art, which supposedly was perverse, thus, Communist or Jewish. Ironically, a Jew, Max Nordau, was the one who coined the term degenerate art for modern art, which he believed was the work of feeble minds corrupted by modern life who had lost their self-control. That was by far not the only idea that the Nazis borrowed from the Jews. It is the irony of history.

Nazism and Judaism both have fairy tales about superior people, the nation’s greatness, messianic leadership, and a promised land. Like the Nazis, the Jews have been keen on not allowing mixed marriages, not to keep their tribe racially pure, but to keep it free from foreign influences. In the past, Jews saw non-Jews as inferior, and many still do. Whether Jesus compared Gentiles to dogs, we can’t be sure of, but there is little doubt that these words reflected a widespread sentiment among Jews. It is a natural human conduct to perceive our own group as superior and other groups as inferior, and the Jews are no exception. They have only been the best at cultivating their superiority complex by producing an elaborate collection of fairy tales about their supposed special relationship with the owner of the universe, and dragging half the world’s population into it. That makes Nazism the Frankenstein’s monster that Judaism has spawned.

Political views

Hitler could have been a painter had the Vienna Art School not declined his application, and we would have had a few additional acceptable wall decorations instead of World War II and the Holocaust. Hitler wouldn’t have sought revenge if Germany had not lost World War I. Had he not lived in an impoverished multicultural neighbourhood in Vienna, he might not have thought that mixing ethnic groups was a bad idea. And had there been no widespread anti-Semitism already, he wouldn’t have hated the Jews that much. Adolf Hitler was skilled at delivering speeches, often angry rants that energised his followers. During the Great Depression, he gained popularity and grabbed power in Germany. He started a war that killed fifty million people. Ten million people died in the Holocaust, including six million Jews. Few people had imagined the Nazi regime could be that depraved.

Like many Germans, Hitler considered the Peace Treaty of Versailles unjust. The treaty stipulated that Germany accepted responsibility for causing World War I and had to pay massive reparations. The economist Keynes warned in 1919 about the harsh peace terms imposed upon Germany. They were the product of vindictive sentiments among the allies. It could lead to another major war, Keynes warned. Hitler also opposed usury and international finance after attending a lecture by Gottfried Feder, titled ‘The Abolition of Interest Servitude.’ It was the reason Hitler joined the National Socialist Party. Hitler’s views were similar to those expressed in the Bible and the Quran. Today, unchecked trade and finance drive the creative destruction that is to terminate humankind.

Hitler feared that the Jews would take over Germany. He believed it would happen through two seemingly opposite yet connected forces: international finance capitalism and Marxist communism. Today, in the United States, about half the wealthy US elites are Jewish, while Jews are only 2% of the US population. To get elected, American politicians must unconditionally support Israel. If not, they face the wrath of the Israel Lobby, which will terminate their career. Today, many Americans are impoverished while the wealthy, often Jewish elites, party, with the Epstein Files giving some insights into the particulars. The elites bribe US politicians to do their bidding. Even though these beliefs paint a caricature of reality, they are not without merit. On the other hand, there were pogroms, so populations attacked and murdered Jews and looted their possession. It points to the broader problem of people from different cultures living together and harming one another.

Inspired by scientific discoveries about natural selection, the Nazis became preoccupied with the fitness of the race. They euthanised those whom they believed were unfit, such as the disabled. Had we still lived in nature, many disabled people wouldn’t have survived, as the communities they lived in would have abandoned them, lacking the means to keep them alive or the desire to care for them. Civilisation allows the inept to survive. If you can do a trick, you can get your cheque. You may even get away without contributing. In human bands, there were lazy people, but the struggle for survival kept the issue in check via social controls. In advanced civilisations with enormous surpluses, large swaths of the population receive money for non-essential activities or idling. The Nazis believed that if the feeble survived and procreated, that would weaken the human race.

To the Nazis, other races were inferior. Some were good enough as slaves, while others had to disappear. Apart from the Jews, the Nazis exterminated the Roma. Today, 70% of the Roma living in Eastern Europe have criminal records, and the majority of them rely on welfare. They still suffer from mob violence and exclusion.² These figures make it understandable why people dislike them. The Jews as a group are problematic in another fashion because they can gain an outsized influence. And that is a reason why anti-Semitism is once again rearing its ugly head. Cultures, so norms, values and myths, hold groups together, so you can’t reason with groups as you can with individuals. And it is not only the Roma and the Jews. We all do harm to others through our values and conduct, and the myths we believe. Capitalism may be the most destructive myth.

‘Why do they hate us?’ It was a question few Americans asked after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. And then the Americans did what many Muslims hated them for: bombing and occupying a Muslim country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Muslims never ask themselves why others hate them. In many places where Muslims live together with others, there is trouble. If we are to live in one world community, it is a question everyone should ask. Why do others hate us? Pride is the gravest sin of all, and for good reason. The prejudices others hold about your group often have a basis in reality. How others view you tells you more about yourself than how you see yourself. It is natural to be proud of your traditions and culture, but that is also why humanity fails.

If we are to survive, we must all be honest about ourselves, our traditions, and the consequences of our conduct. We must stop harming others. In hindsight, the Nazi racial superiority ideology was a guise to address cultural issues plaguing German society. Mixing people from different cultures causes trouble. Yet, none of today’s cultures meets the requirements for our future, so we must all change. The message hidden in God marrying Hitler is that we must fix these issues at all costs, with death as the ultimate measure if everything else fails. Hopefully, the threat of that being on the table disciplines most wrongdoers. To God, we are less than worms, and if God sends a messiah with unlimited authority, he may have to implement what he thinks is the best solution for humanity, regardless of the consequences for individuals. According to the Bible, Jesus said he would separate the sheep from the goats: the evil would face eternal punishment, and the righteous would have eternal life. So, you either fit in that solution, or you don’t.

Harsh questions

The Nazis didn’t shy away from harsh questions, or at least the ones that could be a pretext for mass murder. The world is finite. The Nazis obsessed over limited resources or living space, and thought that the Germans needed more of it, so that Germany should start wars to conquer territory. The issue of limited resources is far more pressing today, and the alternative to warfare is sharing. Sadly, we aren’t inclined to do so, except perhaps at gunpoint. Revolutions, whether the American Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, were not only about ideals but above all about people desiring more for themselves. More stuff is what motivates people. And that comes at the expense of something, such as other people or nature. An economic crisis brought Hitler to power, and an economic miracle made him popular with the Germans.

As for limited resources, you run into questions like, is it okay to spend €100,000 per year to keep one person alive, while that money could have saved a hundred others? Those who take more than is sustainable or have many children condemn others to death. By avoiding these questions or failing to take adequate action, the problems will only get out of hand, so that in the end the suffering will be greater. And so, those living luxurious lifestyles and those having many children are not better than the Nazis. Malthus may have had it wrong for 200 years, but that doesn’t mean he will not be right in the end. Likewise, end-time predictors were wrong for 2,000 years, but that doesn’t mean the end time will not arrive. The world doesn’t need children. On the contrary, the fewer humans, the better. Humans are the most destructive species that has ever roamed this planet.

That brings us to eugenics, or the improvement of the human race via selective breeding. Why would we bring misfits into the world if we can avoid it? If you suffer from a severe hereditary disease, why should you have children? If you are mentally incapable of raising children because you are a retard, a criminal, an alcoholic or a drug addict, should you be allowed to have children? Excessive consumers of resources and planetary destroyers who transfer their lifestyles to their offspring. Should we allow billionaires to breed? They generate more useless eaters who live off their capital. The prevailing liberal view is that it is a human right to have children. And then liberals leave it up to science to fix the problems this view causes. But to own a gun or to drive a car, you need a license and prove you are sane. So, why don’t we have to qualify to have children?

Drug abuse

Adolf Hitler was a hypochondriac suffering from mood swings, Parkinson’s disease, flatulence, skin problems and a gradual decline. His physician, a quack named Dr Theodor Morell, gave him unorthodox medications, such as cocaine, speed, glucose, testosterone, estradiol, and corticosteroids. In addition, Der Führer received a preparation made from a gun cleaner, rat poison and atropine to treat his farting.

Der Führer miraculously survived all these treatments, but they contributed to his erratic conduct and illnesses. He also ingested an extract of bulls’ semen and numerous vitamins and tonics. He took potions, pills and injections to improve his sexual performance to deal with the sexual appetite of his demanding mistress, Eva Braun. As they say, behind every strong man is a strong woman, and in the case of Hitler, an even stronger one.

Eva Braun

Eva Braun was the mistress and later wife of Adolf Hitler. Most historians consider Her an insignificant figure who didn’t participate in political decisions. But opinions differ. A letter demonstrates that Braun knew of the concentration camps and the gas chambers. Some Nazi officials close to Hitler have said that Braun was at the centre of Hitler’s life for most of his twelve years in power. She was committed to Hitler, won his affection, gave him moral support, and enjoyed a healthy sex life with him. Braun’s friends have said that She giggled over a photograph of Neville Chamberlain sitting on a sofa in Hitler’s Munich apartment and said, ‘If only he knew what goings-on that sofa has seen.

Hitler’s letters indicate that he was fond of Her, and worried when She participated in sports or was late returning for tea. Hitler’s secretary, Traudl Junge, stated that during the war, Hitler telephoned Braun every day. After learning about a failed plot to kill Hitler in 1944, Braun wrote to him, ‘From our first meeting, I swore to follow you anywhere even unto death. I live only for your love.’ And that was how it ended. Over twenty plots to kill Hitler failed, making Hitler believe a supernatural force protected him. When the end of the Third Empire neared, Braun became merrier. In the end, She married Hitler and committed suicide together with him. It was the romantic ending She desired.

Hitler’s letters indicate that he was fond of Her, and worried when She participated in sports or was late returning for tea. Hitler’s secretary, Traudl Junge, stated that during the war, Hitler telephoned Braun every day. After learning about a failed plot to kill Hitler in 1944, Braun wrote to him, ‘From our first meeting, I swore to follow you anywhere even unto death. I live only for your love.’ And that was how it ended. Over twenty plots to kill Hitler failed, making Hitler believe a supernatural force protected him. When the end of the Third Empire neared, Braun became merrier. In the end, She married Hitler and committed suicide together with him. It was the romantic ending She desired.

Was Eva Braun God and the mastermind behind Hitler’s rise and demise? Hitler, having been the most messianic figure in modern times, and God’s inclination to marry messiahs would make it a most plausible inference. Coincidences can serve as a clue. Braun is the German word for brown. Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, and brown is the colour associated with the Nazis. Nazis were nicknamed brown shirts. And Eva is German for Eve. Eva had a passion for nude sunbathing to brown Her skin. She loved being photographed naked. She had no shame like Eve in the Garden of Eden.

For God, the story didn’t end with the Third Reich’s demise. She may have become Marilyn Monroe by assuming the identity of Norma Jeane Mortenson. I contemplated that possibility when watching a Netflix documentary about Monroe’s life. Immediately after my thought, the word goddess appeared on the screen in massive lettering. That hint was as plain as it could get. Monroe had an affair with US President John F. Kennedy. He later dumped Monroe. Soon afterwards, Kennedy met the Grim Reaper in an epic scene dubbed the Kennedy assassination.

Messing with Monroe seemed to have been Kennedy’s most fatal mistake. People still speculate about a plot behind the assassination, so here is the answer that renders the speculation trivial. A set of coincidences surrounds the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. They are part of an intricate scheme involving the premature deaths of Presidents, including James A. Garfield. Furthermore, the Kennedy family suffered a series of accidents and early deaths called the Kennedy Curse. The book ‘The Virtual Universe’ delves deeper into the matter.

The prophecy of the Holocaust

Rumour has it that Nostradamus predicted the coming of Adolf Hitler, but the argument is not particularly convincing. The word Hister in Nostradamus’ ravings refers to the Danube. These names are alike, and Hitler’s birthplace was on a tributary of the Danube, a peculiar coincidence. More ominous are the prophetic references to six million Jews in danger of being exterminated or a coming Holocaust of Jews appearing in Jewish magazines before World War II. That is not as remarkable as it might seem. The figure emerged because six million Jews lived in the Russian Empire before World War I. Jews in Russia suffered from a hostile government and pogroms. Pogroms are riots incited to expel or kill Jews.

The Russian Empire collapsed, and the Soviet Union came in its place. Still, the six million figure continued to circulate in Jewish publications, which is odd. It subsequently became the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.⁵ These prophetic statements are eerie, like the reference to the end date of World War I on the licence plate of Franz Ferdinand’s car. The most notable ones are listed below:

• In 1911, at the tenth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Max Nordau, co-founder of the World Zionist Organisation, together with Theodore Herzl, prophesied the annihilation of six million Jews.
• Shortly after World War I in 1919, Zionists feared that a Holocaust of six million Jews was imminent in Europe.
• According to the New York Times, in 1936, Zionists were lobbying for a Jewish state in Palestine to save the Jews from a European Holocaust. It was three years before World War II and five years before the extermination camps came into existence.
• In 1939, The Jewish Criterion predicted the coming world war would annihilate six million Jews in East and Central Europe.
• In 1940, the Jewish leader Nahum Goldmann predicted that if the Nazis achieved victory, six million Jews would be doomed to destruction.

That ugly face in the mirror

The 1981 film ‘The Wave’ was about a schoolteacher, Ben Ross, who showed his class a film about the Holocaust. One of his pupils asked him how the Germans could have rallied behind Adolf Hitler and committed these atrocities. Ross couldn’t answer the question and decided to start an experiment. He began by offering advice on proper posture and a few classroom rules to improve efficiency. The pupils took it up with enthusiasm. The next day, he introduced The Wave, a youth movement with a secret salute. Robert, an unpopular student, was assigned to monitor the other students, a task that filled him with pride.

Nationalist pride often stands at the centre of fascist movements. We all want to feel part of something great. Robert began reporting unorthodox behaviour to Ross and the other Wave members. Two hundred more students joined. Wave members intimidated and bullied other students. The school newspaper published a negative review about The Wave, prompting Wave members to plan an attack on the editor. The fascist violence is not unlike that of the far-left and other groups that don’t respect the liberal order, such as religious fanatics like Islamic terrorists.

The following day, Ross told the Wave was a nationwide youth movement in schools, and its leader would give a televised speech. The eager Wave students assembled in the auditorium with television monitors. To their horror, the monitors displayed a film of Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally. Ross told them that this was their leader. The experiment showed that most of us are fit to become Nazis or would not resist a fascist takeover. Most of us aren’t heroes, so at best, we passively resist by not cooperating. So you wouldn’t hide Jews yourself, but if you knew someone was hiding Jews, you wouldn’t rat them out.

We remember the Nazis for their cruelty, but they were also gangsters. Hermann Göring looted art and other precious items, a recurring pattern in authoritarian regimes. Far-right leaders are more often gangsters who lie more brazenly than other politicians, engage in crimes, violent uprisings and coups to overthrow the government. They tend to outdo the corruption and plunder of the previous liberal establishment. As the liberal world order is collapsing, the decay of order and the rise of gangster regimes are rather unsurprising.

Fascism greatly appeals to human nature. Our natural state is living in gangs. These gangs cooperate and compete with other gangs. Human groups are violent and commit murders. In pre-state societies, about 25% of the adult males had a violent death. States eventually succeeded in bringing down the murder rate by over 99%. So, fascism is a natural response to a perceived collapse in order. And without fascism, humans remain violent. Since World War II, about 10 million people have died in wars. Many of these wars were related to the power struggle between the West and the Soviet Bloc.

The way forward

We may have good intentions, but the outcome of all that humans do is a total disaster. We have created a system that amplifies our destructive inclinations, so we are heading toward an apocalyptic event, sometimes called the End Times. That system is worse than Adolf Hitler. If our survival is at stake, we should do whatever it takes, but somehow we fail to unite and let it happen. To Hitler, the fight was about the survival of the German people. Hitler was a messianic figure, and the Germans rallied behind him. That God married him makes clear that we are nothing in Her eyes. The coming struggle will be about the survival of humankind, and we need a messianic figure to unite us and make the right decisions.

In the real world, that didn’t happen, and post-humans have replaced humans. We live in a simulation run by these post-humans. What they precisely are remains unclear. The post-humans don’t need to be enhanced biological creatures, but could be artificial intelligence. Current developments suggest that humans will soon be no match for artificial intelligence. We also don’t know how humanity ended or whether humans are kept alive in reservations. This simulation runs a script, so we all play our roles, including the messiah. That means that he can’t save you. He can only provide guidance. You need to accept it to save yourself. Whether we succeed or not depends on God, as She wrote the script. In any case, if it is about survival, we must do whatever it takes. Yet, God is in control.

Refrain from anger and turn from wrath.
Do not fret—it leads only to evil.
For those who are evil will be destroyed,
but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

A little while, and the wicked will be no more.
Though you look for them, they will not be found.
But the meek will inherit the land
and enjoy peace and prosperity.

Psalm 37:8-11

Latest revision: 9 May 2026

Featured image: Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler

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