If Hitler hadn't been raised Catholic at a time when antisemitism was rife in the church ...?

Question

would the Holocaust have happened?

Hitler was indeed raised Catholic

Last Ent Wife: as usual you dodged the question. My question wasn't whether Hitler WAS a Christian or not, but whether his Catholic upbringing (and the antisemitism inspired by both Catholics and Protestants in Europe) was in somehow related to the Holocaust. The answer seems to be clearly that it was.

everydaycatholic, behold!

http://www.billwilliams.org/ANTI/anti-semitism.html

Answer 1

He may have been Catholic as a child, but he was no kind of Christian in his behavior.

In fact, he took up Martin Luther's hatred of Jews as his..so I guess one could say that Luther contributed to the Holocaust..

Answer 2

I find it interesting that so many people still seem to believe that massive events in the society depend on the existence of one person. A person like Hitler is just a trigger of events that have been brewing for a long time. At the time of Hitler's entry on the political arena, Germany's economy had collapsed and money had lost its power. The popular belief was that banks (and hence the Jews who were active in banking) were at fault. Of course, the intelligent people, the peace-loving people didn't beileve it. But as it often happens in difficult times, the voice of reason does not prevail and the lower instincts (hatred, blame, xenophobia and racism) gets the better of the general public. Many good people just left the country, others kept silent until it was too late.
It is no use to say that Hitler alone was to blame, that where he went to school or what he believed in had anything to do with it. If he would have been a different person, someone else would have stepped in and played the role. I wonder when will people see it ... maybe never. Because it is so much easier to put the blame on one person than to admit that in such events, every single member of the society is responsible.

Answer 3

Pope Pius XII instructed Catholic institutions to take in Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican itself hid 477 Jews and another 4,238 Jews were protected in Roman monasteries and convents.

That's a lot of Jewish lives saved by such an antisemitic institution huh? It helps to know what you're talking about before making assumptions.

Answer 4

No. Hitler's use of antisemitism to rally Germany around a common cause would have happened in spite of his religious upbringing. As is pretty much common knowlege, Jews as scapegoats in Europe was not a new idea. Germany was suffering the effects of the failed first WW and they needed a common rallying point. It really would not have been a far stretch to stumble on antisemitism as a great way to pull everyone together.

Answer 5

If If was not in our language the answer might have been different but it wasn't and it did happen,just like Jesus came and gave his life so you could have eternal life in heaven forever If you accept him and believe him to be the son of God and repent of all sin in your life being willing to put the old person down and walk in the new way with Jesus.

Answer 6

And you were raised in some supposed "Christian" cult like church. Does that make you a Christian, since you were supposedly raised as one?

If you go on a massive killing spree would everyone dig into your background and blame it all on those few times you were yanked into church kicking and screaming?

Brendan G, the big "Christian" mass killer.....yeah, right...

Answer 7

Groan. No offense, BG, but I hate these "if things had been different would the same things have happened" questions.

History is history. What happened, happened, and it happened for reasons which we can figure out if we take the trouble.

Answer 8

Please show evidence that Catholicism was rife with antisemitism in the beginning of the 20th century.

Or are you a troll?

Answer 9

Hitler could have been raised by wolves and he still would have turned out the same way. He was insane.

Answer 10

Yup b/c Hitler was crazy