This should be an entire article, but in the interest of not forgetting and getting this out ASAP to germinate in the cloud: the Holocaust was unique in that it denied the implicit humanism of both European paganism and Christianity. I don’t mean to say that the Greeks and Romans weren’t racist or genocidal, but that they though in terms of Nietzsche’s good and bad, beautiful and ugly, not in terms of good and “evil,” good and “perverse.” In this sense, 19th century antisemitism was Christian and not pagan, because it demonized Jews as a Manichaean force, above, below, or beyond history. However, at the same time, it was beyond the bounds of Christianity. Hitler rejected the Christ-confessing Jew. In that sense, Hitler could not have been a Christian. On a theological and moral level, the Holocaust prefigures the current discourse around whiteness, where whiteness is not “inferior” to blackness, but actually perverse and can only be eradicated through physical extermination. I’m not suggesting that this is a likely outcome (if Jews could survive the Holocaust, whites will survive as well), but that, through a series of inversions, both anti-white animus and antisemitism seem to have developed in parallel to one another out of the same post-Christian “rejection of the convert,” as well as a rejection of the Graeco-Roman caste system and Master Morality (Citizens and Helots). Obviously this is extremely complicated and cannot be fully explained in short, but my point isn’t about the “evils of collectivism,” or the “evils of gnosticism,” or even the “evils of atheism,” but it is simply to say that as Christianity collapsed in the 19th century, it laid the groundwork for two competing and opposing religions (eugenic antisemitism and anti-whiteness) which both share an underlying metaphysics. I wonder if both of these things isn’t pointing toward transhumanism — it’s not about eliminating Jewishness or whiteness, but humanity itself! I don’t think I’m the first one to come up with these ideas, and I assume Heidegger explained all of this using obscure technical language that I can’t penetrate. But I think this helps me see the 19th and 21st centuries as one long series of explosive religious revolutions, similar to the period between the German Peasant’s Revolt and finally the conclusion of the French Revolution — and then you can see everything from the 15th to the 21st century as one long grappling with the death of the church. This question of dogma is not present in pagan religion, for better or worse.