was Hitler a Roman Catholic or not?

Question

look it up if you need to.

Answer 1

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 from 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 civilization. Whether his anti-semitism was influenced by older Christian ideas remains disputed. Hitler also strongly believed 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 politics.

Answer 2

Remember Juda was an apostle and Martin Luther a catholic priest and monk. The important thing is to follow the teachings of the Church not just to have been born into a catholic family.

Answer 3

Hitler didn't want excommunication - he did it himself even as he enforced a rule of atheism over the nationwide Socialist workers' party, saying "you won't be able to serve both God and the State". even as an excommunication further medieval emperors to their knees, it might have achieved not something to stop Hitler's tyrrany. He had no understand for the Church, and there's no evidence he attended Mass, or perhaps that Mass became extensively held (fairly after sending many clergymen to the KZ's - the most objective camps). The Nazis who murdered such diverse lives were servants of the State, and of not something else.

Answer 4

Born Catholic but certainly not practicing. Hitler and the Nazis were anti-religion period and German Catholics were persecuted and killed right along with the German Jews. All organizations (including religious ones) were a threat to the Nazi hold on the country.

Fascism and religion never go hand in hand.

Answer 5

he nay have been brought up catholic but he certainly did not fear God or know Jesus. I am not a fan of the catholic faith but think it is an insult to suggest Hitler was a practicing catholic

Answer 6

Yes in his early life.

"Adolf Hitler was brought up in his family's religion by his Roman Catholic parents...According to historian Michael Rissmann young Adolf was influenced in school by Pan-Germanism and Darwinism and began to reject the Church and Catholicism, receiving Confirmation only unwillingly. A boyhood friend reports that after Hitler had left home, he never attended Mass or received the Sacraments.[3] Georg Ritter von Schönerer's writings and the written legacy of his Pan-German Away from Rome! movement, which agitated against the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the 19th century, may have influenced the young Adolf Hitler.[4]"

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."[7] Hitler never formally ended his church membership, but according to Albert Speer, "he had no real attachment to it."[8]

"Hitler demonstrated a preference for Protestantism over Catholicism."

"In his childhood, Hitler had admired the pomp of Catholic ritual and the hierarchical organisation of the clergy.[22] In Mein Kampf he argued that the "dogmatic system" of the Catholic Church could be a model for the Nazis.[23] Later, he drew on these elements, organizing his party along hierarchical lines and including liturgical forms into events or using phraseology taken from hymns.[24] Because of these liturgical elements, Hitler's Messiah-like status and the ideology's all-encompassing nature, the Nazi movement is sometimes termed a "political religion".[25] Hitler himself, however, strongly rejected the idea that Nazism was in any way a religion."

"Despite the unclear position of Hitler's public speeches on religion, it may be concluded from his self-chosen suicide, that he had no attachment to Roman Catholic, and general Christian, teachings on morality which forbid suicide in all cases."

"Hitler already had plans for the Roman Catholic Church, according to which the church was supposed to "eat from the hands of the government." As a first step Hitler wanted to force German Catholics to abolish priestly celibacy and accept a nationalisation of all church property, as had happened in France in 1905. After the "Final Victory" of National Socialism, all monastic orders and religious congregations were to be dissolved, and even the smallest influence of the Catholic Church upon the education was to be forbidden. Hitler proposed to reduce vocations to the priesthood by forbidding seminaries from receiving applicants before their 25th birthdays, hoping that these men would marry beforehand, during the time (18 - 25 years) in which they were obliged to work in military or labour service. Along with this process, the Church's sacraments would have to be revised and changed to so-called "Lebensfeiern", non-Christian celebrations of different periods of life.[29]

The aim was slowly to dismantle the institutions of the Catholic Church and fit the institution itself into a new National Socialist German state religion, because Hitler still firmly believed, that religion and belief in God was something "the simple people need." But since the "laws of evolution" - upon which a new religion would have to be founded - were not yet precisely researched, according to Hitler, it was decided to keep these changes and laws on hold, pending the final victory.[30] Hitler and Goebbels also recognised that such changes might create a third front of Catholics against their regime in Germany itself. Nevertheless in his diary Goebbels openly wrote about the "traitors of the Black International who again stabbed our glorious government in the back by their criticism", by which he meant the indirectly or actively resisting Catholic clergymen (who wore black cassocks)."

Answer 7

Hitler was baptized Catholic, never practiced, and believed that he himself was the messiah.

The promised "thousand year" reign of his Third Reich was the Nazi "code words" for it.

What exactly is your point?

You wouldn't be one of those anti-Catholic bigots we get here on Yahoo, would you?

Answer 8

WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SO OBSESSED WITH THE NO TUE SCOTSMAN FALLACY?

YES Hitler was religious (I find this disappointing FYI I rather liked his brilliance, not what he did with it in the end)

Was he Catholic I do not know but he, unfortunately, was religious he said many a time that schools must have god (Sound familiar?)

Answer 9

Only GOD knows otherwise he was Roman Catholic.

Answer 10

Hitler was a megalomaniac and a nut job too boot!

Answer 11

He was brought up as a young'un that way. He made many speeches praising the Church when he was Der Furrier. Those Germans were almost all Christian soldiers, marching as to War.