Should the christian community be forced to apologize for?

Question

In America we are told that we should apologize for slavery,even though not one American who owned slaves is alive today. So that made me think,should Christians have to apologize for the acts of their own,in other words should Christians have to apologize for the Holocaust since Adolph was one of them??

For all the folks who just say Adolph wasn't a Christian the previous five questions I posted with quotes,the quotes were all Adolphs

Answer 1

forced apologies are worthless anyway. Apologies only matter if the person apologizing means it.


For the people who say Hitler wasn't a Christian, you are in complete denial. He was blessed by the Pope himself.

Answer 2

Just as it is ridiculous to forgive someone for a wrong not done to you (like saying I forgive Charles Manson for murdering Sharon Tate), it is also incoherent to apologize for a wrong you did not commit.
Who apologizes for slavery? Say I have ancestors that were slave owners, but then I also have ancestors who were abolitionists, does the slave-holding part of my DNA apologize to the DNA that represents those who died fighting for slaves freedom. Look at Barak Obama, his white mother's family own slaves, his father was born in Africa -who does he apologize to?
The truth is that even though the Holocaust happened only sixty plus years ago, few are alive today who were involved on either side.

Some Christians, sadly turned a blind eye to the atrocities of Hilter, some may have enabled his rise to power while some fought and gave their lives to defeat him. The Christians who are alive did nothing (or the wrong) should apologize to the camp survivors and their families, the soldiers' families that gave their lives.

As far as Hitler being a Christian, that is a pernicious lie. The name Christian denotes a Christ follower and nothing in Hitler's miserable, evil life indicates that he was any such person. Where was his faith in Jesus, his love of God and others, the fruit of the Spirit? This are the traits that evidence themselves in the life of a Christ follower.

You folks are quite quick to call Christians hypocrites, but when we disavow a monster as "being one of our own", you don't want to hear it. Non-believers don't get to define the Christian faith, we do, based on the Bible's definition.

Hey atheists/agnostics/skeptics want to hold a Christian's feet to the fire? Read the book of 1 John (that's the letter John wrote, not the Gospel). Write down all the evidences John gives for a true Christian and next time you run into someone calling themselves a Christian ask them how they are doing on those. It's helpful if you actually point to a specific evidence.

Answer 3

Wasn't Adolph, friends with the pope or was that other high up guy in the church?

I see no reason to make Christians apologies for slavery, the ones alive today didn't do it.

But they shouldn't ask dumb questions like this one :
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Answer 4

Hitler's religious beliefs

Main articles: Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs and Nazi Mysticism

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.[citation needed]

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 man but also critical of Christianity. However, in contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or neo-paganism[citation needed], and ridiculed such beliefs in his book Mein Kampf. Rather, Hitler 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 Arthur de Gobineau's ideas of struggle for survival between the different races, among which the "Aryan race"—guided by "Providence"—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.

Among Christian denominations, Hitler favoured Protestantism, which was more open to such reinterpretations. At the same time, he made use of some elements of the Catholic Church's hierarchical organisation, liturgy and phraseology in his politics.[citation n

Answer 5

Mr. Hitler was not a christian, despite what may be said about him, his actions speak to his true character.

But that aside, people not involved in a past "wrong" should not be expected to apologize for it. A forced apology is not an apology.

Should the US apologize to North Korea for the Korean War? How about apologizing to us Canadians for starting that war in 1812? Or maybe to the British for rebelling in 1776?

Answer 6

First people are mad about slavery still because racism is still every where. I'm racist, you're racist, everyone is racist...it's unavoidable for many reason that would take too much time to explain here.

Everyone is racist, not everyone helped with the holocaust. That is way they don't need to apologize.

Further "have to apologize" doesn't make any sense. An apology can't be forced, because then it wouldn't be an apology.

Answer 7

You can go sit on the runway at LaGuardia and make "Vrroom vrroom" noises, but honey, that plane ain't gonna fly.

Hitler may have called himself a Christian, but it was part of his political adgenda. He was no more a real Christian than you are a Boeing 747.

And as far as that "apologizing" horse manure is concerned, are the atheists going to be standing there beside us Christians, apologizing for the 600 million people who've died as the result of atheist Communism?

Your belief system ain't lily-pure, by any means.

Answer 8

Hitler started the holocaust himself, Christians did not start the holocaust, there is no reasons they should be forced to apologize.

Answer 9

Should atheists be forced to apologize for Japan and China's aggressions in the 20th century, since they are 90% atheist?

Follows the same system of logic.

Answer 10

Adolf Hitler was not a Christian. Just 'cause someone gives lip service to something does not make them genuine. Look at the fruit. He was a wolf, not even in sheeps clothing.