Quote from Adolf Hitler on Christianity?

Question

"One is either a Christian or a German. You can't be both."--Adolf Hitler

So why do people keep insisting Hitler was a Christian?

I hear it all the time. When the discussion of Islamic terrorists comes up, people feel they need to diss on Christianity to be politically correct. Hitler always comes up.

The Irish supported Hitler because he was anti-British.

Answer 1

I've never heard that.

Answer 2

Because Hitler was Roman Catholic. FYI he has never been excommunicated. Also as a FYI the Catholic leader of Ireland sent his condolences to Germany after Hitler's death. The Roman Catholic Newspaper at the time supported the Irish PM as Hitler was Catholic. He was nuts but definitely Catholic.

Edit

Face facts he was Catholic. There is no historical question here, none. Also almost all the SS and Hitler's henchmen were Christian.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

On March 23, 1933, [Hitler] addressed the Reichstag: "The National Government regards the two Christian confessions (i.e. Catholicism and Protestantism) as factors essential to the soul of the German people. ... We hold the spiritual forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of the German people."

There ya go.

In this article, it mentions his Roman Catholic background. He was actually raised Christian and used that to gain power. He may have not been a non-practicing Christian, but did believe in God. However, his ties to Christianity would label him as a Christian.

Also to note, he wasn't an atheist and he opposed any official state religion. He was probably pro-evolution, but it really doesn't say anything about evolution itself. I mean, "evil" people have used the bible to support things such as racism or sexism, but that in no way represents the bible itself.

Answer 5

Never heard that quote. Do you have a source?

But here is a quote from Mein Kampf:

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf


There are many more which prove his faith in god as taught by his catholic/christian heritage.

Addition:

Here is another from a 1922 speech:

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter."

Heheh, I beat another poster to these quotes :)

Answer 6

He wasn't a Christian. In fact, he hated Christians, though he disguised it for the first number of years that he was in power. By WWII, when there were Nazi-sponsored pagan flower ceremonies during important solar dates, he'd stopped pretending. He loathed Christianity because it wasn't "Aryan" to him. It was something from outside the German race, and therefore it should be extinguished.

He wanted to found an "Aryan" neopagan religion based upon nature worship, and he was already beginning to target Christians for the concentration camps at the time that WWII ended. If he'd been given 50 more years, he would have attempted to wipe out Christians as he did the Jews.

Answer 7

Some Hitler quotes:
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

Another popular one is this, from a speech in 1922:

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter."

jworks, thanx for playing, but you really missed it.

Answer 8

The whole Hitler was a christian is an urban myth that got way out of control

Answer 9

I don't know if he was a Christian. But if He called upon the Lord Jesus before he died to save him, he could be in Heaven. I guess only God really knows for sure. One more thing, you can be a German and a Christian - I know quite a few. That is an incorrect statement.

Answer 10

What next ???? Who is insisting that this madman was Christian ???? If he was , casts serious doubts about christianity, huh ???

Answer 11

who said hitler was a christian