"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. "
2006-11-06 22:43:12 · 18 answers · asked by Carpe Diem 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If anything his christian beliefs seem to be one of the motivating factors for his actions.
2006-11-06 22:45:28 · update #1
I think you have to remember that Hitler was one of the greatest liars of all time.
These quotes are also from Hitler:
"The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity...."
"Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things."
"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure."
"The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity...."
"Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse...."
"...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little...."
"Christianity
"We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State."
Need I go on? Was he atheist? Christian? Who knows, but we can all agree that he was evil.
2006-11-06 22:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because no religion wants to be associated with a mass murdering megalomaniac. Christianity has done well to hide most of the evil people that were followers but Adolf Hitler is one that has the hardest time being hid. How many Christians remember such notorious historical names as Heinrich Kramer, Jacob Sprenger, or the infamous Matthew Hopkins. These people do not reflect the "kinder, gentler" world that the faith wants to show.
The fact that you want to continue the "fight" only makes me worry about you and others that would listen to you. The majority of the problems in the world don't stem from the diversity of man but the fact that the world is overpopulated and it is our diversity that is brought to the forefront by this straining of it's resources.
2006-11-06 23:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like they are trying to prove that Atheists are trying to take over the world, in the same sense that all of history shows their own religion trying to do. Hell, just watch TV, we see it trying to take over America's Gov't. But they seem to forget that even those who were Atheist, Stalin, etc... were not trying to spread Atheism. They were trying to rule the world. I'm sure they really didn't give a rats as.s what people personally believed, so long as they bowed down to them.
With Non-Christians pointing out the atrocities of the "Church" as a whole, they are digging for whatever they can in order to pile some of that onto other groups. So far they aren't having any luck. And I don't see too many Atheists running around calling themselves followers of Hitler, Nazi's, Stalinites (or whatever). What they miss is that the followers of Hitler were Christian. Even the Catholic Church in Germany hid many of the Nazi's when the Allies made their way in. The Pope, at the beginning of the war, supported Hitlers actions. Giving a "wonderful" speech about how great of a man he was.
What amazes me is when things like this are brought up, they claim they are being unfairly judged. Yet, when it comes to any religion (or non-religion) not theirs, they will use whatever they can get their hands on to show just how evil those followers are. It's a pathetic game.
2006-11-06 23:55:01 · answer #3 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even satan can call himself a Christian, however if you do not ask like a Christian then you cannot be one. Thus regardless of what he may have called himself he was no more Christian than he would have been the Pope had he chosen to say he was Catholic. Jesus never fought against the Jews in total anyway, he taught against holding onto the laws which he would cover with his blood and make largely redundant, so that Gentiles could be given the gift of salvation. Many people have called themselves Christian. However Christians do no shout their Christianity from the rooftops, they lead by example.
2006-11-06 23:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that he thought he was a Christian. I also think that you should look at the fact that anyone can turn anything to suit his/her purpose, even profession of faith in God and proclamation of Christianity. Hitler was mentally unbalanced, he was evil and sick. Just because he professed to be a Christian doesn't mean he truly was. If he had been he would not have been able to totally justify slaughtering innocent persons who had done nothing to him. Many Germans were killed who did nothing to him, posed no threat etc. Many others lost their lives because a misguided, deluded individual decided to wage war. Also, he misinterpreted the teaching of Jesus to be against the Jewish people. Jesus was a Jew, he did not fight against them.
2006-11-06 22:54:27 · answer #5 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler was a control freak and an ego maniac. Many people have done things in the name of their Christian faith. That does not make it right. I think Hitler must have suffered from some form of mental illness personally. And if he was a Christian, then he knew we serve a God who is a very forgiving God. The God I serve does not want us to hate and maim and kill anyone in his name. However, being that he committed suicide, I don't think he had a very large chance. God bless
2006-11-06 22:50:30 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'll always be a mystery is Hitler hated the Jews because he was Christian (and indeed he grew up roman catholic to later reject it for protestanism) or if he used Christianity to justify hatred against the Jews.
2006-11-06 22:58:32 · answer #7 · answered by Alucard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it matters much what you think Hitler was. The reality is that he was an evil little madman and the word is better without him and his philosophies. An evil atheist is no better or worse than an evil christian.
My understanding is that Hitler was in fact part Jewish.
2006-11-06 23:08:18 · answer #8 · answered by Ted T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler's 'religion' was German nationalism, not Christianity. Hitler's "Christianity" was a marketing technique, a ruse. You are too naive.
Hitler had a cult following. That's what he counted on. If he was a Christian, he would not have elevated his profile to that of an icon.
2006-11-06 22:49:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
some atheists make this fact in an attempt to tutor how evil Christians would be. it somewhat is a strawman form of argument attempting to link Hitler's toddlers to what he grew to grow to be. i think he even attended seminary for some volume of time. in spite of the undeniable fact that, he later grew to grow to be a student of Nietzsche and predicted himself because of the fact the "superman" Nietzsche expected might upward push as much as steer humanity after God replaced into bothered from society. Hitler replaced into lots a student of Nietzsche that he gave copies of Nietzsche's works to Mussolini. interior the myth undemanding as /The Madman/ Nietzsche makes this proclamation after affirming God ineffective: "would desire to no longer we ourselves grow to be gods just to seem worth of it?" it variety of feels to me that Hitler left Christianity long in the previous he left the seminary.
2016-10-21 10:05:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋