Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Catholic Christianity in particular has long since divested itself of the revolutionary, i.e., rebellious, character of the primitive Christian movement. It seduces its millions of devotees into accepting war as an act of fate, as a ‘punishment of sin’. Wars are indeed the consequences of sins, but entirely different sins from those conceived of by Catholicism. The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)