And I personally have used homeopathic medication with great success.
The problem starts when, for example, you make protecting fruit trees an “ism” and raise its priority higher than its actual value—as if uprooting a fruit tree is worse than murdering a baby.
Picture the scene.
At the edge of a forest, German soldiers point their guns at rows of naked people who follow the Jewish religion.
Among them are young mothers clutching their babies.
The shots echo through the woods and the dead bodies fall into the ground.
Down the road, while this is happening, their German army comrades are busy establishing nature walks and bird sanctuaries and planting trees…
The same Nazi monsters who committed crimes of unimaginable barbarity also advocated vegetarianism, organic agriculture, forest preservation and homeopathic healthcare.
The Path to Destruction: Racial "Ecology"

An entire movement based on nature-worship and borrowing from Far Eastern influences (like yoga and Buddhism) preceded the Nazi movement and strongly influenced Nazi ideology, as will be discussed in a future post.
The Nazis prized pristine nature, just as they prized what they viewed as a “pristine” race.
Vegetarianism was "in" and smoking was "out."
Again, Darwinism plays a part here.
With evolution seen as “survival of the fittest,” an evolutionist sees the today's trees, plants, and flowers as examples of the fittest flora.
So preserving and nurturing beautiful flowers, for example, means getting rid of useless and troublesome weeds.
Applying this concept to people, undesirable races or racial characteristics are mere weeds in need of uprooting to protect and nurture the superior Juliet roses.
This was the view of Ernest Haeckel, a German zoologist who coined the term “ecology” in the 1870s.
He gained infamy as the creator of the inaccurate yet famous woodcuttings meant to show the human fetal stages developing through the forms of primary groups of adult animals — quasi-mirroring the stages of evolution, an alleged indication of evolution.
These woodcuttings, though inaccurate, and the theory behind them were still being taught in school in the Eighties as one of many “proofs” of evolution.
In college (early 1990s), I remember students and professors discussing them in class as if they represented accurate fetal development.
So the Nazis cherished nature conservation for the same reasons as Haeckel's ecology.
Ever since elementary school, I felt disturbed by how environmentalists invested so much in saving trees when so much dire human suffering plagues the world.
Environmentalists always defend their priorities with claims of human suffering caused by forestry loss and pollution, and acting as if without their efforts, humanity won’t have a world to live in, that if you save and nurture people, they won’t become so desperate to harm their environment.
But their claims to be acting on behalf of humanity never rang true to my heart.
(Not to mention there is so much nature throughout the world, humans aren’t in any real danger from ecologically incompatible practices.)
And while we all want clean water and clean air and healthy nature, the Nazis idealized this in a way that proved both religious and genocidal.
I’ll leave you with some quotes by some of history’s most immoral and sociopathic figures.
I’m sure you’ll find the ideas expressed in them unnervingly familiar:
Atheists often express some form of this idea.
But guess who also felt this way?
Adolf Hitler [may his name be erased]. Those are his own words.
Source: Adolf Hitler [yemach shemo], Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941-1945 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953), p. 5.
...We National Socialists demand of ourselves that we live as naturally as possible, that is to say in accord with the laws of life.
The more precisely we understand and observe the laws of nature and of life and the more we keep to them, the more we correspond to the will of this omnipotent force."
— Martin Bormann [yemach shemo], Nazi Party Secretary
Source: Boria Sax, Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (New York: Continuum, 2000), p. 106.
It sounds so nice, but the sinister implications come through.
Living according to "the power of nature's law" and making that into one's "god" results in something brutal, inhuman, and barbaric — as happened during the Holocaust.
— Julius Wagner, German educator
Source: Julius Wagner, Die Biologie im Dienste heimatlicher Landschaftskunde (1934).
Lands protected included:
"Remaining portions of landscape in free nature whose preservation on account of rarity, beauty, distinctiveness or on account of scientific, ethnic, forest, or hunting significance lies in the general interest."
Source: Raymond H. Dominick III, The Environmental Movement in Germany: Prophets and Pioneers, 1871-1971 (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1992), p. 108. (Introduction to law can be read here (PDF File).
— Adolf Hitler [yemach shemo], 11 July 1941
["Path of progress"! See? He was a progressive.]
Source: Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944. tr. N. Cameron & R.H. Stevens (New York: Enigma Books, 2000), pp. 5-6.
— Ernst Haeckel, Father of German Ecology
Source: Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation. 2 vols. (New York: D. Appleton, 1876), vol. I, p. 170.
— Adolf Hitler [may his name be erased]
Source: yemach shemo, Mein Kampf, Chapter 4.
[Notice his emphasis on THEIR misery. The “feeble and even diseased creatures” are predicted to become “more and more miserable.” This is exactly how people justify the abortion of deformed and the euthanasia of “vegetative” people—it’s for THEIR sake. Abortion and euthanasia prevents THEM from suffering. This attitude distorts the abortionists and euthanasiaists into heroes and saviors.]
— Fritz Todt, who believed that, based on the above, “our engineering will reflect the National Socialist [Nazi] movement."
Source: Franz W. Seidler, Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches (München: F.A. Herbig, 1986), p. 113.
"If you leave out the parts about killing all the Jews and invading Poland, what specifically about the Nazi political platform do you disagree with?"
[The above sources were culled from World Future Fund.]