Did Hitler hate Catholicism?

Question

A Hitler paid his compulsory (German state collected)church tax to the Catholic Church as some other Nazis did to the Lutheran Church or the Protestant Church of the Prussian Union,but Hitler hated Catholicism as "a Jewish corruption" and a"weakener of the German Volk( "racially pure"people).
Hitler and the Nazi leadership had to move skillfully to de -Christianize Germany since 1/3 of Germany was Catholic and the almost all the rest was at least nominally Protestant.
Catholic Church was a rival international power,too filled with "lesser breeds" like Latins,Slavs and Amerindians,harder to control than the Protestant "German Christian Movement" and dogmatically devoted toJews like Jesus ,Mary and the Apostles.
Hitler avoided Catholic religious services and approved the deaths of thousands of Catholic,especially Polish, clergy. Once the war was over and Nazi control was complete the Catholic Church was to be destroyed.

Dear Rif,
You talking about the picture on"Hitler's Pope"? That was Cardinal Pacelli and the troops were Weimar not Nazi( the picture was before Hitler's time).There was no "heil Hitler" there.

Hitler was in no way a "devout Catholic"for he hated Catholicism as an obstacle to the will- to- power of the German Superman to what "Providence" wanted for the Volk and Great Reich which should dominate the World.

Answer 1

Unlike some others have suggested, Hitler was neither Catholic, occultist nor atheist. He was raised a Catholic however which is why he paid the tax to the Catholic Church. He did believe that the Catholic Church was corrupted and weak. Hitler actually wanted to "cleanse" Christianity and establish what he called Pure Christianity in which Jesus was reimagined as a fighter against Jews. Hitler advocated belief in Jesus in many of his speeches.

Answer 2

Hitler was a nationalist and didn't believe Germany or Germans were answerable to the pope in Rome. However, it is a fallacy that Catholics were subject to genocide because they were catholic. Though Poland was a catholic nation and many ethnic poles were killed in the holocaust, it was not due to the fact they were catholic.

Answer 3

Hitler was a very devout catholic. The black and white photos of him with the pope and several cardinals (all of whom were giving the "heil, Hitler!" hands up) kind of says otherwise. The photo was taken in 1939 and declared by no less than 3 dozen experts to be authentic and not a composite photo of any kind. When you consider further that the catholic church was funding Hitler's army and goals, you begin to see and understand that history is always the first victim of fraud and revisionism by those who don't ever want the dots to be connected. It's the same thing happening with all these nutjobs calling the bible's veracity and authenticity into question. That's all it takes to get the ball rolling it seems.

Answer 4

Catholic Hitler

Answer 5

Hitler could have twisted anything to use for his predetermined purpose. He may have said pro-Catholic things, but the truth was he would use whatever was convenient for him at the time.

There's evidence that after the Jews, he would start exterminating Christians.

Answer 6

As far as I know, Hitler hate the Jews because the Jews in the time of Hitler don't have their own lands. They just migrate from place to place. When he started to persecute the Jews, maybe he thought that some Christian countries might fight with him so he persecuted all the Christians for them to be afraid of him.

Answer 7

Hitler is Catholic

Answer 8

Adolf Hitler was emphatically not an atheist. As he said himself:

The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfil God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. [original italics]

For God's will gave men their form, their essence, and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. Therefore, let every man be active, each in his own denomination if you please, and let every man take it as his first and most sacred duty to oppose anyone who in his activity by word or deed steps outside the confines of his religious community and tries to butt into the other.

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Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. [original italics]

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html#pascal

Answer 9

Hitler was a Catholic and wasn't above using the Catholic Church to further his evil ends.

Answer 10

Hitler hated Catholicism, but he sure did love him some Jesus...in fact, he believed that Jesus wanted him to avenge his death by exterminating the Jews.