Why do people say Hitler was Catholic to deride the Catholic Church?

Question

That makes about as much sense as someone thinking The Church of Christ was bad because Jeffrey Dahmer was a member.

Answer 1

This is so true, but some people will say anything to belittle the Catholic Church. Sad.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 2

People hate the Church. Most of them don't know the actual Church from a Doctrinal point of view. They've been swept up by the propaganda, and it's really teh fallacies in the propaganda that they hate.

It's true, Hiter was a Catholic in his youth. However, he forsook his Catholic heritage when he became an adult - and look what happened because of that.

In an effort to make the Catholic Church appear evil, why not forge links between the Church and the epitome of evil in modern history? Therefore, people bring up the fact Hitler was a Catholic in his youth, in a vain attempt to suggest that his being Catholic had something to do with starting World War II, the Holocaust, and everything else that came and went with Hitler.

The current pope, Benedict the XVI, was conscripted into the Hitler Youth, and then into the German Artillery as a young man during World War II. Anti-Catholic propagandists act as if he did all this on his own accord when, in fact, he was conscripted. Also, they ignore the fact that his family was forced to move to another part of German territory on account of his family's anti-Nazi stance. You won't see this fact recognized by any anti-Catholics.

It's the oldest trick in the propagandist's book. If you want something to look badm, you associate "questionable" people with it.

Fortunately, this being the oldest trick in the book also makes it the most transparent - at least to the intellectually honest.

Answer 3

They do not know Hitler was automatically excommunicated.

Good book to read - Pillar of Fire by Karl Stern.
Convert to Catholism. Born a Reform German Jew, became Orthodox and for awhile he was into Hasidism. He is a psychiatrist if he is sitll living.
Living in Canada. He became aquainted with the French Catholic philospher, Jacques Mauritan and converted. You can get the book from Amazon.Com.

Behind the Nazi movement was an attempt to revive Teutonic paganism. The music of the Third Reich was that of Richard Wagner. His operas glorified Germany's Teutonic past and was filled with sacrified to the Teutonic Gods.
Wagner was a friend of Nietzsche, the German
philospher who was the first to present Teutonic racial superiority. Ludendorf, Hindenburg's adjustant during WWI, began sacrificing to the Teutonic Gods along with some other prominent Germans.
Ludendorf became a Nazi. The ceremoies of the Nazis at night around fires was Teutonic symbolism.

Answer 4

the infalibal popes in rome could have burnt galalio as a heritic if he did not have valuable secular buddies and rigidity to declare the earth does not rotate around the solar. For get the jews, how relating to the killing of polish priest and us uncomplicated catholic with the aid of fact we've been polish by potential of hitler. The popes of rome traditionally have worn many hats yet not the crown of thorns or self sacrifice for thier sheep. Hail Hitler!

Answer 5

I think the point that is trying to be made is:

Using Christianity as an example - Christians have a habit of condemn those who are not of their faith or any faith to hell, implying that we are all immoral criminals. By us pointing out people such as Hitler and Jeffrey Dahmer is that morality is not borne out of someone's religion. It is basically showing how some Christians are hypocrites (not all).

Answer 6

People say Hitler was a catholic because it is a fact. Not accepting the truth by claiming he really wasn't a true christian is lying to yourself.

There will always be members of religions who will behave badly. There will always be atheists and agnostics who will also behave badly. This is human nature.

The point is that believing in some god, or not believing in some god sometimes yields a bad-behaving person.

Answer 7

Hitler has catholic, this however has nothing to do with the catholic church. But people here seems to have the uncanny ability to say that every person they consider bad is not a real christian and therefore is an atheist. We don't try to deride the church we just want you to accept your own sh¡t as we accept stalin.

Answer 8

Midge, you should learn a bit more about the history of the catholic church.
This may not be the case today, but less than 75yrs ago, the pope had a theocracy with a standing army in Italy. Jew's were barely tolerated, and where often segregated from the Christians. This did not end until WWI.

Answer 9

It just proves a point that people acknowledge their god with their lips and then....kill as many people as they can.


Some people seem to think because I don't go to church or have a religion, that I must not have a good moral foundation. So I guess in my defense I would probably pull the "Hitler was a Catholic" card.

Answer 10

Did the Church of Christ disassociate themselves from Dahmer, or is he still considered a member, regardless of what he did?

Hitler was never excommunicated from the church, plus they blessed the weapons used by the German solders. Did the Church of Christ bless the weapons used by Dahmer?

Answer 11

We have to keep reminding people that Hitler was raised Catholic and still had religious beliefs as a grownup because many Christians say he was an Atheist. He was definitely not an Atheist. Was he a good Christian? No. Was he representative of Catholicism? No. Just don't lie about him being Atheist, because he wasn't.