Did Hitler favour atheism or religion?

Question

Consider this statement from Hitler:

“We were convinced that the People needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.”

(speech in Berlin on 24 Oct. 1933)

UPDATE:

This a a basic question. I am not attempting to 'colour' religion.

For all I kno wHilter wa smor eatheist than religious. I am interested in answers not propaganda. I also want to know why Christians allowed Jews to be murdered in their millions.

* Typo: For all I know, Hitler was more atheist than religious.

Answer 1

Hitler drank the same blood that Satan did from the same cup.

Answer 2

Hitler was raised by Roman Catholic parents, but as a boy he rejected Catholicism. Apparently, after Hitler left home, he never attended Mass or received the sacraments.

In later life, Hitler often praised the Christian heritage, German culture, and a belief in Christ. But his private statements, as reported by his intimates, are more mixed, showing Hitler as a religious man but critical of Christianity. However, in contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or neo-paganism, and ridiculed such beliefs in Mein Kampf. Rather, Hitler advocated a "Positive Christianity", a belief system purged from what he objected to in traditional Christianity, and which reinvented Jesus as a fighter against the Jews.

Hitler believed in Arthur de Gobineau's ideas of struggle for survival between the different races, among which the "Aryan race"—guided by "Providence"—was supposed to be the torchbearers of civilization. In Hitler's conception Jews were enemies of all civilization. Whether his anti-semitism was influenced by older Christian ideas remains disputed.

Among Christian denominations, Hitler favored Protestantism, which was more open to such reinterpretations. At the same time, he adopted some elements of the Catholic Church's hierarchical organization, liturgy and phraseology in his politics.

Answer 3

Of he were so Christian, why did he kill three million Catholics along with the six million Jews? Why was the "Hitler Youth", which was ratified by Hitler himself singing songs along the lines of "Pope and rabbi shall yield, out with the Jews".

The Nuremburg trials bought it all out ... Hitler tried to suppress Christianity when he came into power. He offered to sign a concordat with the Vatican, agreeing essentially to behave nicely, but immediately set about breaking the concordat and persecuting the Church and other Christian denominations.

Was he an atheist? Well, certainly, it does not seem to have been a coherent form of religion. At the least, it was his own private religion (which is essentially what atheism is - deification of the ego).

Answer 4

Hitler was a public speaker who used religious furor to inspire his followers with mesmerizing oratory!
Hitler was the the perfectly bad or evil leader who used his oratory skills to woo the German people into a reality that they did not see coming or even begin to comprehend the nature of Hitlers Messianic message.
What the German people did know was that they had been blamed and punished by the rest of the European and English powers by being forced to pay a huge sums of reparations in money in the period after WW1.
It was this Germany's national anger that caused the German hatred and speciousness of it neighbors, and ultimately the cause of the War in 1939.

Answer 5

Hitler stated: "Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews . . . The work that CHRIST started but could not finish, I--Adolf Hitler--will conclude."

"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, Ralph Mannheim, ed., p. 65, New York: Mariner Books, 1999

"Liberalism is a disease of the mind that weakens and corrupts human beings" - Adolf Hitler, 1939

Many times Althaus explained to Christians his preference for the Third Reich over the former Weimar Republic. “We Christians know,” he stated, “that we are bound by God’s will to the promotion of National Socialism, so that all members of the people will be ready for service and sacrifice.” (“Kirche and Staat,” p. 29)

Answer 6

Hitler only favored & worshiped himself, according to author Chaz Bufe. His proof was that Hitler is quoted as saying publicly, "I was raised a devout Catholic in Austria (a Catholic country), but I have always considered Martin Luther my spiritual ancestor", This was said for political points in Germany because Germans tend to be Lutheran up north and Catholic down South. Hitler was above all an evil opportunist, he borrowed from any & every faith as long as it was expedient, so he borrowed religious symbols from various pre-Christian cultures, used new-age fortune telling & astrology, and like a typical politician, he said anything he thought you wanted to hear & used it to pit you & your group against everyone else. It's called "divide and conquer" and it's still in use today. If we want a to live in a better world, we need to defend any group that's being maligned or villified, especially if we don't belong to that group, because who do you think will be next?
That's right, you and your group. So go out of your way to talk to strangers and learn from them, always be mindful of other people's humanity, look out for the poor and marginalized,
learn to be empathetic towards all.

Answer 7

Hi, Bajingo. Hitler made speeches for propaganda purposes, while expressing quite different views privately.

Hitler revealed his actual convictions in Hitler’s Table Talk: "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. . . . Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. . . . Christianity is an invention of sick brains. . . . I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie."
http://www.davnet.org/kevin/articles/table.html

Hitler was an atheist, and he took atheism to its logical extreme. With no God, there are no human rights, and thus no reason not to load 6 million Jews into cattle cars for extermination.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 8

Hitler favored crazy.

It's unfair to take a crazy person like Adolf Hitler and attempt to paint all believers or non-believers with his atrocities.

Yes, christians allowed the holocaust to happen. But christians also stepped up and stopped it from going any further.

Answer 9

The idea that Hitler was an atheist is completely fabricated. Hitler was a Catholic, and he had the support of the Catholic church throughout the war. His ideals were also very much influenced by the writings of Martin Luther.

He obviously favored Christianity.

Answer 10

Hitler certainly wasn't an atheist. He had a lot of occult beliefs that he mixed with Catholicism. He wasn't really any traditional religion but a mixture of a bunch of things.