Did you know the Nazi's were CHRISTIAN?

Question

and justified the extermination of jews by claiming they were sub-humans who killed Jesus?

Ironic isn't it?

I am sorry. this was a response to another question claiming Nazi's were Jews.
The stupidity of some amazes me.

What truly amazed me was the amount of christians agreeing with him.

Answer 1

Hypocrisy is the core of all religion.

Do as we say and not as we do.

People need to learn to think for themselves... But probably never will...Why are you surprised by any of this?



cheers!

Answer 2

That is not exactly accurate information. Although it is true that some people throughout history used that excuse, Nazism on the whole rejected religion. Most of the leadership was atheist or agnostic, and the only time religion was invoked was to stir up the masses against the Jews. To claim that "the Nazis" were Christians is simply untrue. To claim that they used Christianity as one (of many) their excuses may well be true. Nazis were evil racists trying to supposedly "purify" their society, and had Christianity never existed, they simply would have used other excuses to do the same thing. If you are attempting to make Christians look bad, all you are doing is making yourself look ignorant.

p.s. Might want to let us in on the joke when you post stuff like this. I would have linked the other question.

Answer 3

There was Adolf Hitler, Jim Jones, and whatever Christian sect that caused harm to others.

On the other hand you have Pastor Chuck Smith, Pastor Gene Scott, Billy Graham, etc. Who were preaching faith.

I see your question as an attack upon Christianity. And typically when I see that, I notice that there is an attempt to illustrate Christianity as being the bad guy; one sided and unfairly delivered.

What I did was to show that there are two sides to the argument is ask those who want to brand Christianity as 'only bad' is to ask them to think a little bit. And that's something that I find Atheists in particular do not like to do.

Like a sports fan, there can be only one team to root for. While sports are superficial and typically do not end anyone's life, Christianity is subject to those who want to harm it.

I will tell you this: If I became aware of any who called them self Christian seeking to harm another, I would do anything to stop him.

Answer 4

Edit;
Okay, now you've explained it, it does make sense. Seems the other guy wasn't paying attention in history class.
As most people (apparently not everyone) knows, the Nazi's were not Jewish, and in fact hated Jews, putting them into concentration camps and killing them and such.
Why (and how) would a Jewish person become a member of an origination with such a deep hatred of the Jews?

Answer 5

Yes the Nazis were Christian, Stalin was an atheist and Genghis Khan was...well whatever.

What's the point and why are you abusing the concept of irony? Religious and non-religious people do bad things. This is the type of "logic" religious people use against atheism.

It is a well known fact that Hitler was Catholic (not a very good one but one none the less). Mussolini was obviously also Catholic but it is no more related to their crimes than the fact that they all liked military uniforms.

Answer 6

I know people like to pretend they were, but no one who hates Jews can be a Christian, because Christ was a Jew. You cannot hate Christ and be a Christian, period.

UPDATE: Suzy you're right, the nazis killed an estimated 10 million christians.

UPDATE2: Ah, okay. Yes I've heard the hitler was a Jew nonsense before also.

Answer 7

Not very.

Many claim to be Christian, but are truly not according to the laws and regulations Jesus himself set forth as regards to his true followers.
Jesus said the main thing his followers would be recognized by would be love. Did the Nazi's show love? NO!!! That's only one way you can see that there were only claiming to be Christian, but were certainly not!

Answer 8

Hi, I'm the Prime Minister of the world and I'm going to exterminate all reptilian life forms on the planet in the name of humanity.

Do you believe me?
If you do, then your gullible, if you don't, then you understand now that just because someone says something doesn't make it so.

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Answer 9

They were doing what they thought was right, at the time...following a leader, who was mentally ill, due to syphilis, Hitler had after all, taken Germany out of a great depression...the people of Germany thought they we making Germany a "pure" nation, and they thought they could take over the East.

Answer 10

Kind of like the relationship of the Taliban to Islam?

Hmmm ...

Yeah, sometimes people call themselves something but totally miss the mark.