2007-08-20 08:48:40 · 15 answers · asked by david w 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was Catholic?! Oh that makes perfect sense... That would be the ideal place to learn how to control people! The Catholic church perfected that long ago... haha - the irony!!!
2007-08-24 08:37:12 · answer #1 · answered by I, Sapient 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
walking into a church does not make a person a Christian. I believe he was raised in the church, however, someone can be "called" religious and still do horrible things. Hitler may have went to church, but He never met the Lord- or he would never have done what he did. So for those who think that all people who go to church are horribly evil people, remember it is people who allow God to change them that makes the difference not someone in church.
2007-08-20 09:05:11 · answer #2 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Once Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 he developed the Reich Church, here the bible was replaced by Mein Kampf (my struggle) the book he wrote whilst in jail in 1924 and the cross was replaced by the swastika. All other religion was forbidden, although people still worshipped their individual realigions only these moevements were ultimatley forced underground for fear of the Gestapo (Nazi police). So, yes he did go to church, his church and he worshipped himself, so in a way he thought he was god and it was a worship of his-self. His hatred of the Jewish faith was well publicised, but he also persecuted both the Catholic faith and the Protestant faith (Catholics were statsitically less likely to vote for him in teh years leading to 1933 - they had their own seperate parties), as well as Masons, gypsies etc. Many people attended the Reich church out of fear of the Gestapo as opposed to Hitler worship, although that was prevalent by some in Germany at the time.
2007-08-20 09:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Many pious and dishonest Christians claim that Adolf Hitler was an atheist. Their assertion however is an outright lie.
Hitler was a Christian. He was raised as a Catholic and attended Catholic schools. Much of Hitler's philosophy, as detailed in Mein Kampf, came right out of the Bible, and more importantly, from the Christian Socialist Movement of early twentieth-century Europe.
Hitler's anti-Semitism grew from his Christian education, which taught him that Jews were inferior to Christians. Jewish hatred did not spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests, and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years.
2007-08-20 08:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by Indiana Raven 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I don't know if he ever went to church but he regarded himself as a Catholic until the day he died and the Catholic church in Germany never asked for his excommunication.
2007-08-20 09:03:56 · answer #5 · answered by lilli 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes as a youngster he was an altar boy in his local Roman Catholic church. However he later gave up his religion.
2007-08-20 08:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by mini metro 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes quite regularly. he even attended the seminary when he was a student. God moves in mysterious ways non ?
2007-08-20 09:02:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He probably did as a young man,
so did all of my brothers they went to a catholic church,
as children .
but they do not give God a second thought now,.
It is not religion that makes evil'' it is man.
2007-08-20 10:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by denis9705 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes, he was brought up my a strict catholic family
2007-08-20 08:53:55 · answer #9 · answered by cheerstar1912 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Yes. So does Bush.
2007-08-20 08:57:53 · answer #10 · answered by DiscoGoddess 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋