As can be seen below Hitler was a more reasonable politician than German Socialists and Communists with their mandatory atheism.
He understood that people can live on atheism alone. As long as Churches didn't meddle in politics he was ok with so-called "superstitions" of simple people.
And he was thoroughly modern in his liberal beliefs, he believed in coexistence with Churches, believed in science (and its final victory,) and believed in intimate communion with nature.
As so many people believe today.
Hitler on Christianity, 14 October 1941
Trying to take a long view of things, is it conceivable that one could found anything durable on falsehood?
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I'm convinced that any pact with the Church can offer only a provisional benefit, for sooner or later the scientific spirit will disclose the harmful character of such a compromise. Thus the State will have based its existence on a foundation that one day will collapse.
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If anyone has needs of a metaphysical nature, I can't satisfy them with the Party's program. Time will go by until the moment when science can answer all the questions. So it's not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the Churches.
The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.
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When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity. Originally, religion was merely a prop for human communities. It was a means, not an end in itself. It's only gradually that it became transformed in this direction, with the object of maintaining the rule of the priests, who can live only to the detriment of society collectively.
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It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.
Only a minority, however, at the present stage of the mind's development, can feel the respect inspired by the unknown, and thus satisfy the metaphysical needs of the soul. The average human being has the same needs, but can satisfy them only by elementary means.
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The person whose life tends to simplification is thirsty for belief, and he dimly clings to it with all his strength. Nobody has the right to deprive simple people of their childish certainties until they've acquired others that are more reasonable.
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I envisage the future, therefore, as follows:
First of all, to each man his private creed. Superstition shall not lose its rights. The Party is sheltered from the danger of competing with the religions. These latter must simply be forbidden from interfering in future with temporal matters. From the tenderest age, education will be imparted in such a way that each child will know all that is important to the maintenance of the State.
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We shall continue to preach the doctrine of National Socialism, and the young will no longer be taught anything but the truth.
