Why do Christians automatically brand a sinner as being a "Non Christian" ?

Question

They say that Nazi Germany was full of athiests and they do not acknowledge that it was a Christian country.

Hitler was supported by CHRISTIANS and his army was full of CHRISTIANS.

If they cannot accept this as truth then maybe they are incapable of accepting the truth .

When someone of another faith commits a crime they brand the whole religion with generalization knowing that a very small percentage are doing it, but in when it comes to their faith they have a double standard.

Were the Majority of Germans in Nazi Germany Christians ??


Why the hypocrisy ?


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Adolph Hitler said: "Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the *poison of immorality* which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of *liberal excess* during the past ... (few) years." [The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872]


"I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator... I am fighting for the Lord's work" ------ Adolph Hitler in 1938.

“GOD IS WITH US” - http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm

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"Liberalism is a disease of the mind that weakens and corrupts human beings" - Adolf Hitler, 1939 --------------

Answer 1

Hey that Hitler speech sounds just like Bush!

Answer 2

I am a Christian. I don't point any fingers at sinners. Much less "brand" them as this or that.

The Nazis were not Christian. They were occultists.

The Lutherans originally supported them because they honestly felt Hitler would return their Germany to the glory they dreamed of.

One Lutheran spoke out how wrong Hitler was from the beginning. Dietriche Boenhoffer. He was taken by the Nazis and murdered. They call it execution for treason.

http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/

Pure murder.


There was a book written called Hitler's Pope. But the writer recanted and said he'd been utterly mislead. Now he's joined the Catholic Church.

A second book was written by a Jew called the Myth of Hitler's Pope which clears up all the misconceptions.

Einstein himself is quoted in Time magazine:

"Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765103,00.html

Answer 3

Yes, "Christians" were Nazis. "Christians" did lots of horrible things in the name of religion. "Christians" are the reason for many of the bad things happening today.

But just because you say you're a certain thing doesn't mean that you truly are.

This leads to a huge misconception among non-Christians that we are responsible for some of the horrible things that have happened in history.

But you've got to realize that Jesus said, "If you love me, you will obey me." Thus, if we aren't obeying Christ we aren't truly His followers.

Christ, a Jew a man of love, who protected the poor and shunned evil, would certainly not have condoned Hitler's practices.

Once again, just because you say you follow Christ doesn't mean you do. Its called hypocrisy and false belief. Just as with someone who said they were a straight-A student but brought home all D's and F's.

Do you know what the real Christians were doing during the Nazi reign in Germany? They were protecting Jews; they were being persecuted; they were trying to stop the Nazi reign. Many Christians died because they opposed Hitler.

Answer 4

In Christianity, you'll find as much difference and opinion as Judaism and Islam. There are some zealots that discredit their religions on all sides. I'd say the same applies to atheists and agnostics also.

To be Christian, is to be a follower of Christ, and to hold and follow the commandments set forth by God. Therefore, if you do not hold or follow those commandments, you aren't Christian; that is why sinners are branded "non Christian" as it is obvious they have no interest in it. Personally, I try to avoid either of those terms. You thought it out, you made your decisions, and I respect that. All I ask is you in turn respect mine. I promise to not go chasing you down the street threatening to whack you in the head with a Bible!

Finally, in any religion, and in the absence of religion, you will find hypocrisy. I'll agree, the majority of Christians are hypocrites. "Christian" Nazis have FAILED the second most important command set forth by Jesus Christ: "And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" Matthew 22:39. It was clear from Jesus's parable in the chapter the your neighbor was not limited by race, belief, or social status. Clearly, this is why many Christians fail their God on a daily basis.

Answer 5

Yes, if the Christians in Germany failed to support Hitler, he would not have had an army. This is something with which Christians need to come to terms. There were those in Germany, like D. Bonhoeffer, who thought that Christians had been too easily swayed and who provided a faithful witness of resistence.

Answer 6

That's some generalization. You are lumping "Christians" into one big group.

A few bad apples doesn't make any entire religious group false Christianity. It's when the group as a WHOLE (Catholics for example) condoned things such as what happened in Nazi Germany, that such a group could be ruled out as being true Christians from the Bible's standpoint. There were Catholics on each side of that war killing one another.

There are two brands of Christianity per the scriptures: Christendom (those organized religions claiming to be Christian but not living up to what the Bible teaches) and God's people or "true Christians".

Answer 7

I can neither confirm nor deny that at that time Germany was a Christian nation. If they were, they were a misguided and deceived Christian nation. It happens often. Many times, Christians don't do the homework required to know the truth. The Bible itself says to study to show yourself approved so that you can rightly divide the Word of truth. Many times we don't do that, and we end up doing atrocious things, thinking we're doing God's will. As a Christian, I will freely admit that throughout history, horrendous things have been done in the name of Christ. But not by people who have done their homework, and know what true love, God's love, is all about.

Answer 8

What!?!? Just because someone claims to be a Christian does not believe that they are. No true, born again, believer would back a man like Hitler. Just like when the OK city bombing happened, some claimed it was an act by a "christian" group...Again not so. Don't lump true believers in with those posing. And all sin,everyone...Christians or not. But we have forgiveness through the blood of Jesus. God bless you.

Answer 9

What the hell is your point? Good lord, talk about sweeping generalizations! I'm neither a Nazi nor Christian, but your whole missive STINKS of hypocrisy! Making sterotypes about people who you THINK make stereotypes...

National Socialism is not identifiable with Christianity, although it flourished, briefly, in a nation that was predominantly Christian. The Nazis sought to supplant Christianity, in fact... they wanted to replace the Bible with Mein Kampf. It took a lot of brave Christians who gave their lives to resist that effort. Try googling Dietrich Bonhoeffer for a start.

Answer 10

Wouldn't it be obsurd to label someone who cannot successfully add 2 + 2 and get 4 as a result as a mathematician? Jesus was plain about this when He said, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that DOES the will of my Father." The reason we say they were not Christians is because they plainly were not - no amount of verbal assertion makes one a Christian without appropriate works as proper evidence - it's a badge of identification, if you will. Unfortunately, the false teaching that Christians are not to judge at all has infected the world of the non-believer as well, or perhaps it makes more sense to say that there have been worldly, half converted people in the church who have brought in this perverse doctrine.

Jesus did NOT teach not to judge at all, but to judge right judgment, and He even gave us the appropriate means of doing so, "You shall know them by their works: a bad tree does not bring forth good fruit, and a good tree does not bring forth good fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, you will know them by their fruits." To me, not to pass judgment on false professors of Christianity is obsurd in the highest degree, and is one of the principle causes of much harm in the church.

Tom

Answer 11

Ah! i imagine i comprehend the position your coming from with this. such dissimilar attacks on Catholic Christians and questions concerning the position does it say this contained in the bible ans so on..... answer: that is not contained in the Holy Bible so a thoughts as i comprehend -- and that i do not trust asking human beings to say the kind of prayer - i did not say a sinners prayer when I received Jesus - and that i might want to under no circumstances ask absolutely everyone to repeat a sinners prayer after me -- yet each to their personal way. i'd not bypass round telling human beings they are incorrect to make ppl say a sinners prayer both. it will be the way in which for an evangelist to lead a crowd of ppl to the Lord - so each to their personal way i say : ) merely to operate: I confessed in accordance to Romans 10:9 -- my element is, that that is not mandatory to bypass by a lengthy-winded prayer - we favor only make a confession of religion as in Romans 10 to be kept. God bless you abundantly Father Joseph T : )