Atheists, were you born to Christian parents and if you were does that automatically nullify your claim of?

Question

being an athiest?

I ask, because I repeatedly hear claims that Hitler was a Catholic. Hitler was raised by Catholic parents but was by no means a practising Catholic.
If you choose to label Hitler as a Catholic is that because you feel that if you are born to Christians you are automatically a Christian or do only feel that way when it helps to support your claims?

Quotes from Hitler:

July 11, 1941: The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.

October 19, 1941 :The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.

December 13, 1941: When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only people who are immunised against the disease.

I don't disagree with what most of you a saying. We could quote back and forth all day.

The point is that (and oozɐƃ ʇɐǝɹƃ ǝɥʇ is right) Hitler's motivations were political (along with the fact the he was insane). It's hardly fair to point at Hitler and say "See, this is what Christians do!".

Answer 1

The endless cycle of denial just keeps rolling along.

Answer 2

Yes and no.

Hitler it is more than that. He ALWAYS claimed to be a Catholic. In Mein Kampf (you should read it sometime) he flat out says that he is doing "the Lord's work" with respect to the Jews. Now he mixed in some weird occult beliefs, but at his heart I see nothing that indicated that he viewed himself as anything else.

Most of those quotes if you read them are directed against the church, not Christianity. And they were all late in his life after he was losing and had a falling out with the Pope. He actually blamed God for losing as well. He did have issues with the church in that they occasionally opposed him. You guys want to distance yourself from a person that flat out attributes being Catholic as his primary motivation to acting the way he did toward the Jews.

Now, he killed a lot of Christians too. But that motivation was political.

Answer 3

we can quote all day,Hitler was a christian because he SAID he was a Christian.How can you say someone isn't?Judge not lest ye be judged".You can't say "this one or that one isn't a REAL Christian.You don't get tomake that call.People aren't Christian or atheist because of their parents.Only the Christian monst...GOD punishes children based on their parents.He said he was,he was.Period.Or are you maybe not a christian either.Remember,SAYING you are one doesn't cut it,if Hitler wasn't.Don't talk about your good works either,you don't get to heaven by works


My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited.
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922

Answer 4

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.

-Adolf Hitler,

Answer 5

Instead of copying and pasting a bunch of information most people wont want to skip over. I am including a link about the 'Hitler" quotes people love to reference.


It turns out that many of these 'anti-christian' quotes are in reality mis quotes from the various interpretations of his table notes.

Lots of interesting information in this article.

Answer 6

The difference is, Hitler died a Christian too. The guy was a nut. You can't take a few quotes and figure out much about him.

Answer 7

Being born of christian parents doesn't make you an automatic christian. I was raised a christian but decided when I was in my twenty's to become atheist. My daughter was born of atheist parents and she chose to become a christian. It is what you decide is right for you as you get older.

Answer 8

Your assumption is right.till at last few years back,there have been not often any atheists in our society.people who weren't working in the direction of followers or energetic in non secular events persisted with their existence style and did not think of of the two changing their faith or starting to be atheists.maximum all people is starting to be atheists as their faith isn't able to respond to and fulfill their queries .it is a failure extra of the clergy and non secular management than any severe deficiency interior the faith yet must be studied intimately.

Answer 9

That was pretty good. Are you sure you're not an atheist in denial?

I would say because I am my own self.

But regardless of Hitler's belief system, he ordered the murder of people based upon their RELIGIOUS beliefs.

He also said, "No one remembers the Albanians."

Answer 10

It doesn't change that he used the Church, whether or not he was lying, to promote his Fascist regime. Which reinforces the standpoint that Religion is nothing more than a tool of those in power to control the weak minded.