Репост из: NS, attitude to Christianity.
SS journal Das Schwarze Korps (The black corps), in an article titled “Trouble in the Blood: This World and the Next”
“We all know that this horrifying mistreatment of animals so often observed in so-called Catholic countries is based on the idea that animals have no soul. This mechanistic view of the world, which sees animals as machines with no feelings, is particularly offensive to the faith unique to our race. To us, God is manifest everywhere in NATURE, because nature is sacred, and we worship in it the revelation of an eternal will. Seen in this light, the animal is, in our eyes, actually a “little brother,” and our sensibility considers that assaulting a man able to defend himself is more morally acceptable than any cruelty towards a defenseless creature” [1]
[1] “Verwirrung im Blut,” IV. “Diesseits und Jenseits,” Das Schwarze Korps, June 29, 1939, booklet 26, p. 11
“We all know that this horrifying mistreatment of animals so often observed in so-called Catholic countries is based on the idea that animals have no soul. This mechanistic view of the world, which sees animals as machines with no feelings, is particularly offensive to the faith unique to our race. To us, God is manifest everywhere in NATURE, because nature is sacred, and we worship in it the revelation of an eternal will. Seen in this light, the animal is, in our eyes, actually a “little brother,” and our sensibility considers that assaulting a man able to defend himself is more morally acceptable than any cruelty towards a defenseless creature” [1]
[1] “Verwirrung im Blut,” IV. “Diesseits und Jenseits,” Das Schwarze Korps, June 29, 1939, booklet 26, p. 11