If you think Hitler was a Christian because of how he was raised and educated...?

Question

Does that make every atheist that went to Catholic school a Christian as well?

I'm simply addressing the faulty reasoning of people claiming that Hitler was a Christian in order to discredit Christianity. Jesus said, "many will say to me at the day of judgment, 'lord lord did we not prophesy in your name' and I will say to them depart from me you who practice lawlessness."

It is the people here who wear logic so proudly on their sleeve that make the greatest errors. Jesus is real. Don't mistake the representation of an object for the object itself.

also, I do believe some Catholics are saved as long as they have a relationship with Christ, not just a religious experience.

Answer 1

He sure acted like one.

These people where christian.......

Luke 19.27
"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."
--Pope Alexander IV

Catholic extermination camps
Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Pavelia practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children! In these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews) were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the Nazis had victims gassed first). But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being estimated between 300,000 and 600,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen).
The pope knew about these events and did nothing to prevent them.

Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (Jewish, Muslim, men, women, children).

1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain.

Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 11/29/1864. Colonel John Chivington, a former Methodist minister and still elder in the church ("I long to be wading in gore" had a Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned down despite the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed.

1860s, "in Hawaii the Reverend Rufus Anderson surveyed the carnage that by then had reduced those islands' native population by 90 percent or more, and he declined to see it as tragedy; the expected total die-off of the Hawaiian population was only natural, this missionary said, somewhat equivalent to 'the amputation of diseased members of the body'."

so why should Hitler not be considered christian?

If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...

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Answer 2

I'm no christian, but I think that hitlers outcome was due more to his childhood then anything. Rejected from his only passion, drove him to create art through his own extremes. In all honesty though people have been trying to exterminate jews for a very long time, even through bibilical times. I don't see the diffrence between a slave master, hitler, or a war mongle. I don't see whats so surprizing or shocking about people like this in history, Humans naturally don't have the ability to coexsits peacfully anyways, they're always going to hate each other for being diffrent, or having more. Its just selfish nature. If people were as peaceful as they preach, then we wouldn't have war, homocide, proverty, ect. Once again I don't think its relgion to blame this time, I think its parent hood, Which sould be a privledge not a right. Just becasue you have a kid doesn't mean you are a mother or father.

Answer 3

Hitler was a politician. He was raised a Catholic and used the church to further his gains.

Whether he was or not a Christian is irrelevant. He killed millions of people for the sake of a political and national ideology, not for a religious cause.

Blonda:

Catholics are indeed Christians and in all honesty have more right to the appellation on account of them being around approximately four times longer than Protestants.

Answer 4

It's not how he was raised or educated. Hitler claimed to be Catholic in a speech ( I believe it was April of 43) in front of a Roman Catholic Church with a Bishop at his side. Later, German Bishops claimed they knew Hitler was a Christian.

Answer 5

Being raised in a Christian home and even belonging to a Christian church does not and never will make you a Christian. A Christian is one who accepts Christ and lives according to His teaching.

Answer 6

...at least somebody here knows that Hitler was, in fact, not a Christian! Though he was not an atheist; he practiced the occult, but did not really fit into any particular religious path.

Answer 7

As far as I know, Hitler wasn't actually a Christian. The guy burned piles and piles of Bibles.

Answer 8

You've tied Hitler, Christianity, Catholicism and Atheism together. I'm impressed.

Answer 9

no i dont even think Hitler was a Christian think of all the people he kill education and your parents and family can't make you a Christian and atheists dont believe in God so they aren't Christians either

Answer 10

Only if they claim to be Christians.