Who here still doesn't know Hitler was a Christian?

Question

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognised 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.

Speech in Munich (12 April 1922)

I'm not saying that Christians are a bunch of Hitler followers. But why is it possible that there are still people who don't know?

Answer 1

If I stood in the garage and told you I was a car and read the owners manual to you to prove it,would you believe me?
Jesus said "You will know them by their fruit,a good tree can not have bad fruit".
Well, Hitler was rotten fruit to the core.
Everyone knows he was into the occult.He was trying to convince the Germans he was a good guy.

Answer 2

These are just a sampling of Hitler's writings in Mein Kampf showing that he was actually a Christian.

Volume 1, Chapter 1, In the House of My Parents

I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.

Volume 1, Chapter 2, Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna

Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

Volume 1, Chapter 3 General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period

Heaven will smile on us again.

Volume 1, Chapter 5, The World War

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

However, this does not mean that anything he did is condoned by Christians in general, and to imply as much is ridiculous. On the other hand, this proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that he was not an atheist.

Answer 3

Ahhhh but was he REALLY??????
What is a Christian? Did he really display Christian principals and follow God's word? Does a person respect God's Word if he fails to live by it? Would you say that Hitler encouraged people to use their Bible and even study it?Did Hitler showLove toward people?It is Love that true Christians are identified by. Jesus said:"By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves."(John13:35)Ask yourself these questions, and then think about what if any of these qualities did Hitler display, to show that he truly was a Christian?Did he realy encourage his people he ruled, to show love for others? Or did he encourage them to hate others? Think about this and determine for yourself, are the things Hitler did truly something that true Christians would do?Ok so if you ask me, my answer to your question would beI don't know that Hitler was a Christian. Oh Yeah he may have claimed this to be so, but Claiming and really being one, are not the same thing are they? From what I know of Hitler I do not think he was truly a Christian, he ordered Christians deaths and I do not say this about the Jews only there were other people that Hitler hated, not only the Jews, I know that the Jews suffered at his hands, but they were not alone. There were others who suffered too by hitler's hand! Why is it possible that people still don't know that Hitler was a so called Christian? Well maybe because he didn't display the qualities that a Chjristian should display!

Answer 4

Dog Sneeze, you'll find that Hitler actually claimed to be a Christian in his private conversations as well. This still does not necessarily make it so.

What we DO know, is that he claimed to be a Christian and used religion strongly to promote his war and the extermination of the Jews (along with the ethnic minorities, homosexuals and atheists).

The Church went along with this in Germany, and the troops and weapons were regularly blessed. So whether or not Hitler was really a Christian is irrelevant - his war was religious in nature.

Answer 5

Hitler was Catholic, which is indeed one of the christian religions. He did not have bibles removed from churches. He unified all of the churches in Germany, with the blessings and the support of the Pope. Those of us who grew up in Europe happen to consider Hitler the Grand Inquisitor of the Second Inquisition. Christians who didn't fall in line with the new church were shipped off to the camps right along with the Jews. I was shocked when I moved to the US and no one seemed to know what had really happened over there. Even the history books in the American high schools were full of errors.

Propaganda is nothing new to ANY government, tho. I could tell you stories about Sweden that would make your hair stand on end.

~Morg~

Answer 6

I bet within minutes dozens of Christians are going to say that Catholics don't count as Christians...psh...what stupid excuses...


History is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed. Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, or a false Christian in order to place his misdeeds on those with out Jesus. However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. Those who would make Hitler an atheist should turn their eyes to history books before they address their pews and chat rooms.

Considering that Christianity has thus far been incapable of producing an unbiased, educated follower which speaks the truth, (I haven’t encountered any), I have been forced to dispel the myth by writing this essay. It is not until I bring up his speeches, my personal info on the Nazi regime and their tactics that a Christian will begin to question what their clergy told them. (I am the offspring of a German soldier. My Opa served under Hitler in WW2 and my father was raised during the time of the Nazi regime. This is important information to take into consideration for I am privy to some info that most Americans do not know. It is common for American media and education institutions to lie to their citizens concerning Nazi Germany.) So, in presenting this information I must break it into four parts: 1) Facts about Hitler and his involvement with the Church. 2) How the Church was the catalyst for anti- Semitism. 3) Facts concerning how the Nazi regime drilled these beliefs into Germanic society. 4) Quotes Hitler made which prove he had a disdain for atheism/occultism, upheld his Christian faith, and hated Jews due to his Christianity.

Answer 7

Of course all the Christians will say he wasn't *really* a Christian and neither are all those Christians who murdered and are now on death row.

BUT, you know what? It doesn't matter. What does it say about Christianity if you concede their point? What if Hitler was only USING Christianity? It worked! He led the most Christian nation in European on an anti-Semitic joyride through the Holocaust. What does THAT say about Christian morals and ethics??!!

this is when it becomes immediately obvious that centuries of Jew-hating and Jew-bating flogged by both the Catholics and the Protestants came home to roost!

Answer 8

I've read "Mein Kempf" and I don't get this impression.

He was a politician, he wasn't religious.

(By the way, if you're taking his words in 1922, remember that he had just gotten out of an Army hospital after faking blindness from the affects of mustard gas. He had no intention of returning to his unit and risking further injury. Real honest guy, huh?)

Answer 9

Hmm, imagine that. A complete monster taking a religion and using it to further his world domination agenda.

Like that's never happened before.

Come on dude, read books or a newspaper.

Answer 10

He wasn't a Christian, but he did wisely use Christian rhetoric in public speeches. In his private conversations with Nazi generals, however, he mocked Christianity. He killed about 6,000,000 Jews. But he also killed about 10,000,000 gentiles, most of whom where Christian. Also, familiarize yourself with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, especially how he died and ask yourself why Hitler took out Bibles from German schools and replaced them with Mein Kampf.

It is one thing to score points for you belief or attack another, just be honest about it instead of quote mining.