Hitler: Christan?

Question

Was Hitler a Christian or Atheist as some claim? Your opinions, preferably with facts to back it up.

Answer 1

I believe that Hitler called himself a Christian. Unfortunately every group has nuts that make the number of nuts in that group seem disproportionally large. Looking back, though, some of his ideas were not dissimilar to those of ancient Spartans, and looking to our future of overpopulation, obesity, and disease, maybe we should have thought about some of what he said and compared it to the theory of evolution. How nice would it be if none of us needed glasses or had any other medical problems or deformities? If we are going to suffocate ourselves by overpopulating the planet, I'd rather suffocate next to someone who is genetically better than me in some way.

Answer 2

Hitler. like others, deceived the masses into believing he was a Christian. He carried a Bible in his breast pocket, however it was a prop. It is reported that he thought he was the anti-Christ, but had he ever actually read the Word of God he would have realized that scripture did not support this. Hitler was a catholic, however.

Hitler taught his fellowmen to be kind to each other, he began the construction of the autobahn system, he founded a church, he quoted scripture better than many preachers, and he was well favored.

At one point in time, so he story goes, a woman wrote to her friend about the Jews being slaughtered and remarked that someone needed to tell Adolph. What a remarkable actor he was!

He was never excommunicated and his writtings were/still are accepted by the catholic chruch.

Answer 3

What he may have claimed and what he actually was are probably two different things. Many will tell you he was Catholic...he was not. He was baptized Catholic and it stops there...he never believed nor acted Catholic.

I think he says he believed in God...but I can't imagine for the life of me how a belief in the true God would allow anyone to put God's chosen people to death.

Someone stating a belief in God, doesn't mean they actually have taken that belief to heart. Sometimes, they just believe that God exists but see no reason to pursue the teachings of Christ and live according to his will.

Hitler was a frightening monster. In my opinion...he was Satan's right-hand man.

Answer 4

Hitler had a lot of animosity towards the Jewish people, and since Christ was a Jew, he obviously wasn't a Christian. Similarly since Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves and Hitler didn't seem to want to gas himself, he obviously had little problem completely disobeying what Jesus taught was the 2nd most important commandment.

Hitler to me seems the logical outome of taking Neitsche ("God is dead") too seriously, despite the fact that he may have fooled himself (and other people too it appears) into thinking he was a Christian.

Answer 5

Hitler was Catholic.
He didn't start his physical campaigns until he got a concordant signed at Vatican.
Pope Pius is the one that got the concordant through, though he wasn't Pope at the direct time.

Hitler was Catholic but favored Far Eastern religions and that is the rope that tied him to Japan.

I have to go and cannot give you the necessary references to back this up, but it's true.

Answer 6

Hitler was a very ill man. He was raised Christian and most of the time thought of himself that way. When we read his personal journal, we see that sometimes he thought he was doing the work of God, sometimes he thought there was no God, sometimes he thought HE was God. He had a lot of mental illnesses compounded with serious brain damage due to advanced syphilis. He was a Christian, but he couldn't use religion to justify his thoughts and actions, he was a very ill man and thus doesn't count in either side's argument.

In ALL of his speeches he proclaimed himself Christian doing God's work, duh, he was a good speaker and knew that that was what he needed to say to get his audience behind him. Anything he said in a speech is just that, propaganda and cannot be said to be his feelings on the matter.

Answer 7

Hitler claimed to know Christ and accept Him but that is impossible he killed himself knowing it was a sin i dont think he could have ever been Christian,God is love the man knew not the word

Answer 8

Actually, Hitler was an occultist who used Christianity to try to control his people. He actually murdered Christians who opposed him based on the fact that everything he stood for was in opposition to the teachings of Christ. Google Bonhoffer. He was a German Christian who opposed Hitler and was killed for it. Christian haters like to identify him as a Christian, but he was most certainly not one.

Answer 9

In order to be a Christian, one must follow Christ's teachings. Simply announcing "I'm a Christian" doesn't cut it.

Christ taught:
-Love your neighbor
-Hating someone is the same as murder
-Don't hold grudges

Hitler's actions:
-murdered millions of Jews along with others
-hated other "races"
-blamed others for his problems

Answer 10

Here ya go:

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized 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. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed. [Adolf Hitler, speech on April 12, 1922, published in My New Order


Edit: Now why do you suppose someone gave me a thumbs down for posting Hitler's own words?