Are Christians embarassed that Germany in WW2 was 51% Lutheran and 45% Roman Catholic?

Question

That is what my encylopedia says. Where did you think Hitler got his soldiers from, and the concentration camp guards? Who were the hundreds of thousands who flocked to his rallies?

Answer 1

Youre surprised? Christians have been responsible for the deaths of COUNTLESS amounts of peoples from all types of social and religious backgrounds.....and when they ran out of people to kill, they killed their own Franciscan monks.

Answer 2

Are atheists embarrassed that Hitler was an atheist? How about the fact that the Japanese were almost 100% Japanese?

Should we be embarrassed that the U.S. at the time was 99% Christian? Should we be embarrassed that the all the allied countries were Christians?


When you get to high school, your science teachers will teach you the difference between correlation and causality. Just because there is a correlation does not imply causality.

It would seem that when it comes to world politics, religion has very little bearing. The important thing is Christ still loves you.

Answer 3

So, what you are suggesting is, that all those with a German heritage should be ashamed and embarassed by what the Nazi's did, right? Afterall, all of the Nazi's were, well, German.

You're smart enough to use a computer, aren't you smart enough to realize that just because someone is in the habit of going to a function every week and sit in the congregation, it doesn't mean that their faith is alive. The Bible says many times, "You sing songs and speak praises with your lips but your heart is far from me."

I am not ashamed because I am a christian. These people did what they did not motivated by a passion to please God but by greed, bigotry and a sense of self reliance - i.e. they felt they had no one to answer to. It is a scary person who feels that way. As the Shadow used to say, 'Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men." I think the death camps give us some clue.

I am ashamed because I am a human and I am saddened that one group of people could do such evil things to another because the other does not believe the same. Aren't you?

Answer 4

Dear ynotaskdonut,

I am sure you recall 9-11. Those individuals who dressed in pilots uniforms and flew the planes into various targets, killing all the passengers may have "looked"ike pilots but they were not concerned for the lives and safety of their pasengers. A "real" pilot will care for his passengers. You see just because one says they are a "christian" does not make them a christian. Just because one is baptized in water does not make one a christian. Just because one carries a Bible does not make one a christian. For one to become a christian they must be born again--have spiritual birth.
When you were born, did you tell your mother what hair color you wanted or eye color? Did you tell her what day or hour you wanted to be born? Did you tell her what height or gender you wanted to be? No! You did not have any say in these things. That is what the Lord says in John 3 regarding being born again (born spiritually). He (God) makes all the decisions and does all the work. Some people will never be born again. "For many are called, but few are chosen."

Answer 5

The German "Christians" may have been responsibile for the death of 6 million Jews. The Russian, Chinese, Vietcong, Korean, Cuba, and other "atheist" were responsible for the murder of over 180 million in the last century. That looks like a 30:1 kill ratio victory for the atheist. Should I be embrassed by that?

Answer 6

If you were born there, you would have been in one of those %. However, you live in a free country where we have not had a Hilter and the gestapo come to power.

I want you to think, as atheistic as you are, and anti-religious, would you have been one of the Hitler Youth's, or SS, if you have lived bck then, as a Luthern or Catholic?

A serious question. How open minded are you to people who believe in God?

Answer 7

Why be embarassed by the actions of people that are, most likely, no longer with us. Why be embarassed by anyone else's actions at all? Those actions aren't my responsiblity. It's similar to stating that Christians are bad because of the crusades or all Americans are bad because slaves were once owned there.

Answer 8

The shameful part is that they called themselves Christian.

Not all Catholics are truly Christian.
Not all Lutherans are truly Christian.
Not all Baptists are truly Christian.
Not all Presbyterians are truly Christian.
Not all Anglicans are truly Christians.

The name people call themselves does not necessarily reflect their actions.

Hateful deeds done by the Nazis were not Christian, they were Satanic. God brought judgment upon those that would hurt His children Israel.

Answer 9

im not embarrassed by it.... they made their choice.... i disagree with their choice .... but i dont base who i am ... or what my realationship with God is ... on the actions of other people.
Christians arent perfect people... we live in a sinful world... we are tempted and make bad choices in some of those temptations just like everyone else. The Christians that chose to support hitler made a terrible choice... but that does not affect who i am nor my eternity with the Lord.

Answer 10

No but I do think the Germans should all leave the country and start over somewhere else. What an embarrassment.

Answer 11

He did not campaign on killing six million Jews.

He used more nationalistic ideas.

Most of his army had no idea what he was doing with the Jews.

So, no, not embarrassed, it was not a Religious war.

The masses can be misled by a mad man.

Peace!