Does it matter what religion Hitler realy was?

Question

After all wasnt most of the people doing the killings and following Hitler, Christians?

yes I know "realy" should be spelt 'really''

Hitler a muslim?!?? now thats a new one, never heard that before. is that true?

Answer 1

Yes, Hitler was a xtian and like most other xtians in power he interpreted his religion and the bible to suit his needs and agenda. Does this matter? Of course. We can all learn from that horrible mistake. We need to realize that religion has no place in politics and leadership outside of the church. We need to remember what happens when we use religion as a means to war against others. As the xtian fundaMENTALs are trying to turn America into a theocracy, they would do well to remember where this path of atrocity leads. The past matters very much, for it is only when you know AND own where you have been, that you can see where you are going.

Answer 2

1) Most sources claim he was not actually Chrisitan.
2) I don't know the religious beliefs of those who killed for him, but it is claimed many were occult.
3) Do you know who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

Hitler's Religion:

Adolf Hitler was brought up in his family's religion by his Roman Catholic parents, but as a school boy he began to reject the Church and Catholicism. After he had left home, he never attended Mass or received the Sacraments.

In later life, Hitler's religious beliefs present a discrepant picture: In public statements, he frequently spoke positively about the Christian heritage of German culture and belief in Christ. Hitler’s private statements, reported by his intimates, are more mixed, showing Hitler as a religious but also anti-Christian man. However, in contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or neo-paganism, and possibly even ridiculed such beliefs in private, but rather advocated a "Positive Christianity", a belief system purged form what he objected to in traditional Christianity, and reinvented Jesus as a fighter against the Jews.

Hitler believed in a social darwinist struggle for survival between the different races, among which the "Aryan race" was supposed to be the torchbearers of civilization and the Jews as enemies of all civilisation. Whether his anti-semitism was influenced by older Christian ideas remains disputed. Hitler also strongly believe that "Providence" was guiding him in this fight.

Among Christian denominations Hitler favoured Protestantism, which was more open to such reinterpretations, but at the same time imitated some elements of Catholic church organization, liturgy and phraseology in his poltics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler#Hitler.27s_religious_beliefs

Answer 3

People in the West thoroughly despise everything that Hitler stood for. His uniforms, symbols, ideas have all been criminalized. It is a crime to deny the Holocaust.
Is this true in the Middle East?
Has Osama likewise been criminalized by his own people?
No.
What matters is not religion but actions.

Answer 4

plz don't read the following content. Specially Mr. Bush and Osama Bin Ladin.
most of the killing based on politics, The politicions use the religion to attract/seperate dumb religous iediots. Finally the business minded politicians and their bugs will create a war situation. They will make plenty of TNT available and put the blame to different sides. Eventually the canibal politicion *** business man will benifit.

Answer 5

It saddens me when people think that Hitler was a practicing Christian. It's nothing more than propaganda.

"Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were Socialist monsters." -- Thomas Colton Ruthford

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
-- poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945

Pastor Niemoller was a Lutheran pastor who opposed the Nazis.

Hitler and Nazis referred to all of those who opposed him as "conservative reactionary" and "right wing fanatics."

"Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were Socialist monsters." -- Thomas Colton Ruthford

Nazis actually allowed for a type of the free-love movement, abortion, pornography, class welfare, and gun control.

Animism was actually the state religion of Nazis. Hitler was raised Catholic and even made a few speeches with Christian references before his severe corruption and acceptance of Darwinian Evolution.

It wigs me out to hear all of the revisionist history of calling Hitler a Christian, a conservative, and all. Totally weird. Totally.

Wikipedia said this about Nazi religion: Hitler extended his rationalizations into a religious doctrine, underpinned by his criticism of traditional Catholicism. In particular, and closely related to Positive Christianity, Hitler objected to Catholicism's ungrounded and international character - that is, it did not pertain to an exclusive race and national culture. At the same time, and somewhat contradictorily, the Nazis combined elements of Germany's Lutheran community tradition with its Northern European, organic pagan past. Elements of militarism found their way into Hitler's own theology, as he preached that his was a "true" or "master" religion, because it would "create mastery" and avoid comforting lies. Those who preached love and tolerance, "in contravention to the facts", were said to be "slave" or "false" religions. The man who recognized these "truths", Hitler continued, was said to be a "natural leader", and those who denied it were said to be "natural slaves". "Slaves" – especially intelligent ones, he claimed – were always attempting to hinder their masters by promoting false religious and political doctrines.
Anti-clericalism can also be interpreted as part of Nazi ideology, simply because the new Nazi hierarchy was not about to let itself be overode by the power that the Church traditionally held. In Austria, clerics had a powerful role in politics and ultimately responded to the Vatican. Although a few exceptions exist, Christian persecution was primarily limited to those who refused to accommodate the new regime and yield to its power. The Nazis often used the church to justify their stance and included many Christian symbols in the Third Reich (Steigmann–Gall). A particularly poignant exemplar is the seen in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Nazism promoted a mixture of Christianity, Hinduism, and Social Darwinism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity

Answer 6

Read "The Spear of Destiny". It says Hitler was a loser, but he had a gift for giving fiery speeches. A few German officers, who were satanists, (not all German officers were satanists),
molded him into a leader.
The swastika, the Nazi symbol was the symbol of the Wheel of
Life turned backward, and at a tilt. Was there ever a truer
symbol, as far as all the DEATH the Nazis caused. This was
a satanic attack on ALL of humanity.

Answer 7

Yes it matters. Because you should know that Hitler was not muslim. Frankly U.S. will try to link Hitler with Al-Quida

Answer 8

if hitler said he was a christian, he was lying.

i think he was in some kind of cult.

if you are truly born again of the spirit of God, you will not do what he did. theres no way. coz u have the conviction of the Holy Spirit to stop you and help you from going that far.

we still make mistakes, but maan he was evil.

no one can say what religion he was... but i doubt he was a Christian. who knows.. and who really cares. who wants to remember such an awful man anyway?
i just hope he repented and turned from his ways before he died... although i heard he didnt.

Answer 9

Hitler was born Catholic but became demonically possessed. That is a known fact. He turned against the faith of his baptism and followed Satan. The people who followed Hitler were lead there through propaganda.

Answer 10

To deny the influence of Christianity on Hitler and its role in World War II, means that you must ignore history and forever bar yourself from understanding the source of German anti-Semitism and how the WWII atrocities occurred.

By using historical evidence of Hitler's and his henchmen's own words, this section aims to show how mixing religion with politics can cause conflicts, not only against religion but against government and its people. This site, in no way, condones Nazism, Neo-Nazism, fascist governments, or anti-Semitism, but instead, warns against them.



"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. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.

-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)