Would you say Hitler was the poster-child for Christianity?

Question

“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.” –Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)

“Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.” –Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (Here Hitler is admitting that his war against the Jews were so successful because of his strong Christian Spirituality.)

"The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." -Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (The idea of the devil and the Jew came out of medieval anti-Jewish beliefs based on interpretations from the Bible. Martin Luther, and teachers after him, continued this “tradition” up until the 20th century.)

"Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition." -Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (It is quite obvious here that Hitler is referring to destructing the Judaism alters on which Christianity was founded.)

Oh wait, he wasn't a Chritian right?

Hitler was NEVER excommunicated nor condemned by his church. Matter of fact the Church felt he was JUST and “avenging for God” in attacking the Jews for they deemed the Semites the killers of Jesus.

“I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.” -Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)

LoL Stalin never said he killed Jews because he was inspired by Atheism. Tray again.

Try again*****

Answer 1

In the first place, I have not seen any of what you posted...it may or may not be there. HOWEVER, if it is, you are judging all Christians based on one lunatic.
That being the case, I assume you are not Christian?
Jeffrey Dahmer was not a Christian, so I guess that would make you and all non christians cannibals?

makes as much sense to me as whay you are saying

You have a good day

Kp

Answer 2

A lot of words make no sense like some users above are trying to prove.

Hitler just took oportunity of the people's belief in gods to get further and closer to his goal. Okay, nothing wrong with that. Or was it NOT so?

It's really irellevant if he was actually a true believer/fanatic/goddamn messiah for that matter.

Yes he claims to have done a lot of things in the name of god. Yes he must have been seen by Germans and german allies as a poster-child for christianity.

The rest of teh world has now a different opinion.

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Not to Feral, to the answerers:

And a few more things to the other people out there.
Using the bible to try proving something about hitler makes no f*cking sense...

Aaaand... Rule of the internet:
11.)All your carefully picked arguments can easily be IGNORED

Answer 3

Have you ever even read the bible? Hitler and the diluted and corrupt Catholic church of his day might have believe all of this but the bible clearly speaks against it. The Jews are Gods chosen people. Many many time in the old testament God destroy people for even plotting against the Jew. Also in the new testament Jesus says the greats command he could give us was to LOVE. I don't think Hitler fell in line with the description the bible gave a true Christian. Before you try to attack something know what your up against. Read the bible you might learn something.

Answer 4

John chapter 16:1 ¶ These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Hitler was one of those who thought he was doing God a favor but he was practicing his own will.
The church he attended was practicing the following:
2 Timothy 4:1 ¶ I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Answer 5

Hitler closed down all the Churches in Germany and amalgamated them into one under his and Nazi command.

From within the ranks of the Christian Churches in Germany resistance movements were formed cf Pastor Niemoller, cf the White Rose & Sophie Scholl, who protested against the Nazis openly and drew peoples' attention to the Holocaust. They paid with their lives.

Its moronic to suggest Hitler was in any way a Christian. He believed in his own Ragnarokian vision of Norse Gods, Cosmic Beings and an age of Aryan Dominance as a return of Hyperborean/Thule rule. He was crazy. He had total contempt for Christianity which he believed was the pollution of Jewish ethics. Had he been a Christian he would have known that the Jews were the carriers of the first revelation of God and thus not his enemies.

In fact, if there was a religion he was interested in it was, of all things, Buddhism, particularly that practised in Tibet. Check out the legend of Shamballa. He believed (among other things) that he was an avatar of Vishnu come to liberate the world from the age of Kali Yugar - or immorality & materialism - the representatives of which in this world were the Jews. Check out the writings of Miguel Serrano for this...

A nut.

Answer 6

Religion- is an institution not of God's making.
We are called to have faith and strengthen one another in that faith and show God's love and grace through us. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves and show tolerance and kindness to all others as they are all God's children.
Sadly, the faith can be hijacked and turned to evil purposes much as has happened in the middle east.
Do not believe that true Christians have ever supported Hitler. Such a man as that only does harm and would cause the Lord much anger and sadness. We are to love and not murder. To show kindness and not hate.

Answer 7

His FATHER used to be Catholic and his mom used to be JEWISH. He used to be additionally deranged and proposal he used to be constructing the grasp race, however he used to be NOT an instance of a well christian or catholic or Jew! Neither Osama a well instance of of his faith. They are simply humans and now not religions. I consider that I will have to factor of to be both Christian or Catholic (each being the identical incidentally) is to comply with Christ's teachings, to not pass approximately committing genocide. Amendment to the primary. He and his FATHER have been Lutherin, now not Catholic and he used to be the motive of the deaths of nearly as many Catholics as Jews.

Answer 8

Haha this is funny all these misinformed misguided people trying to make Christainity look bad.

Hitler was a Christian by name only. He did this because most Germans were Christians, and he played up to them. He's not stupid. Plus he knew he could use it against the Jews.


He feared the political power that the churches had, and did not want to openly antagonize that political base until he had securely gained control of the country. Once in power Hitler showed his contempt for religion and sought to eliminate it from areas under his rule.Within Hitler's Nazi Party some atheists were quite vocal especially Baldur von Schirach, Arthur Axmann and Martin Bormann. From Hitler's promotion of declared atheists within his party and his use of Muslim fighters in his army, it can be concluded that Hitler in the public realm tolerated different religious opinions, ranging from atheist to Islamic to Christian, as long as those people professing these different creeds would support the Nazi regime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs

Lets see what those closest to him had to say...

Joseph Goebbels, for example, notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay." Albert Speer reports a similar statement: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"

In the Hossbach Memorandum Hitler is recorded as saying that "only the disintegrating effect of Christianity, and the symptoms of age" were responsible for the demise of the Roman empire. In 1941, Hitler praised an anti-Christian tract from 362CE, Julian's Against the Galileans, saying "I really hadn't known how clearly a man like Julian had judged Christians and Christianity, one must read this..."He was reported to say that religion should die on its own accord.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs

So NO. Hitler not a poster-child for Christianity. He didn't even really care about being Christian. He only used it to get what he wanted. like I said the guy ain't dumb.

In any case that he was a poster-child. The Atheist have the Christians beat.

Atheist have 3 poster-children: Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, ---all Atheist--- who killed and murdered millions upon millions all in the name of creating a godless communist state. They really were Atheist, not someone using Atheism as a guise to get power, thats alot worse.

3 to 1 Vegas odds would say don't have an Atheist as a powerful world leader.



The Soviet Union had a long history of state atheism, in which social success largely required individuals to proclaim atheism and stay away from churches; this attitude was especially militant under Stalin.The Soviet Union imposed atheism over wide areas of its influence, including places like central Asia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism

Stalin did murder in the name of atheism. He didn't murder Jews exclusively, but he did murder lots of people, nonetheless.

Answer 9

He was in no way Christian once he got going. He and Himmler were into weird pagan/occult religions which they basically created themselves out of bits and pieces of Norse mythology and Catholicism.


Atheist.

Answer 10

As we have witnessed on this site - not all who claim to be christians are actually christians. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. Hitler was an evil (possibly demon possessed) man. Hitler and christianity is a total oxymoron.