Was Hitler a good Catholic? How about Germans in general?

Question

After all, they believed they were doing God's work by slaughtering the Jews:

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler.html

Booth: Nope. check the link ... or any history book. The atheist thing is a cheap Catholic smear

Answer 1

Germany was generally Catholic in the south, Protestant in the north. Hitler was an Austrian and therefore brought up Catholic. He promoted the idea that women should devote themselves to "children, church, and kitchen," hardly an atheistic approach!

Hitler was, of course, seriously delusional, and therefore really believed all the stuff he said about being on a divine mission to save Germany from the Jews and other non-Aryans. Many of the German people shared his fervor, but at least as many were probably just terrified and did what they were told out of naked fear. Twenty years after the war ended, I knew a lot of Germans who were young adults during the war, and my impression was that they simply wanted to survive. It's very easy to say that they should have stood up for their beliefs, but who knows what he/she would do if faced with the choice of going along wih evil and being butchered.

The zeal to destroy those of one particular religion nearly always comes from those who believe God is on their side. War in general seems to almost require that kind of belief, with the combattants on BOTH sides typically claiming divine support.

Answer 2

Although Adolf Hitler was born to a Catholic family, he broke away from the church early in life. He claimed he was a complete pagan and that Christians were weak.

Automatic excommunication happens when Catholics commit certain offensives. This happens as soon as the offense is committed.

Adolf Hitler committed the following offenses resulting in automatic excommunication:
- Apostasy - the formal renunciation of one's religion. Hitler specifically rejected the Catholic Church, as well as Christianity in general. He described himself as "a complete pagan.”
- Heresy - a doctrine in theology, religion, philosophy, or politics at variance with those of the Catholic Church. Nazism is definitely heretical to Christianity.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

No, Hitler was a modern pagan. He was trying to destroy religion. He considered in the levels of human garbage, Jews in the first place, and Catholic priests in the second

Answer 4

While Hitler may have been born into a Catholic family, he clearly renounced his heritage at an early age. Sorry, dude...but you can't lay the crimes of Hitler and the Nazis on the steps of the Vatican.

Answer 5

Hitler was an evil man who believed in sorcery, who actually believed he was god, and who induced many of his countrymen to treat him as such.

He wasn't a good Catholic, or a good Christian, or even a good human being.

He was pure evil.

Answer 6

He also tried to exterminate homosexuals and a few other groups. Yet no one ever talks about that either.