was hitler a catholic?

Answer 1

Hitler was very much a catholic and his faith was his inspiration for the genocide of the Jews. Hitler was in contact with Pope Pius who sent a Papal Representative to work closely with Hitler. Catholicism is a harbour for the wicked, how many Paedophiles are safe behind the walls of the Vatican? I don't think the church was in favour of Hitlers facist philosophy, for Pius tried to make ammends through good works, but they didn't publicly denounce him and went as far as becomming backdoor supporters through fear. Just another example of how far the Church will go in order to survive. Catholicism is the curse of man, sorry but all hatred and ignorance within Christianity had its birth within the Papacy.

Answer 2

He killed apprx. a million Catholics. Two Catholics that are Saints are Maximilian Kolby and Edith Stein. St. Kolby was a priest who gave up his own life to save a Jewish man who had a family in the death camps---he was finally murdered via lethal injection because they could not starve him. After all the others in his cell were dead from starvation he kept living miraculously---weeks went by with nothing--every-time they opened the slot to check to see if he was dead yet---there he was looking at them.

Edith Stein was Jewish who decided that there really wasn't a God when she attended University so she became an Atheist then she met the Catholic religion--she was extremely smart and it was her power of reason that forced her to take a harder look at Catholicism. She converted and became a nun----they took her to the death camps because she was of Jewish descent and it didn't matter if she was a Catholic nun or not and there she died giving many people hope for a resurrection in Christ Jesus.

Answer 3

Does it really matter? The majority culture was Roman Catholic. It was they who stood by and watched with indifference as their brethren slaughtered millions. We all know that "real" Christians didn't participate in the slaughter -- they simply watched.

The Pope requested Hitler to have leniency on Christians -- he could not bring himself to do the same for Jews.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good people do nothing.”
British statesman Edmund Burke

“Indifference in the face of evil is complicity with evil.”

Hopflower says: "He was anti-Semitic, so he cannot be Catholic." ROFL

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Answer 4

Although Hitler was raised in a Catholic family, he turned away from Christianity at an early age.

Automatic excommunication happens when Catholics commit certain offensives. This happens as soon as the offense is committed.

Adolf Hitler committed the following offenses resulting in automatic excommunication:
- Apostasy - the formal renunciation of one's religion. Hitler specifically rejected the Catholic Church, as well as Christianity in general. He described himself as "a complete pagan.”
- Heresy - a doctrine in theology, religion, philosophy, or politics at variance with those of the Catholic Church. Nazism is definitely heretical to Christianity.

There was no reason for the Catholic Church to excommunicate Hitler. He did it all by himself.

For more information about excommunication, see: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Hitler was raised in the Catholic faith, but didn't like their "universal" character. He thought that salvation should be racially exclusive, which is why he became vehemently anti-Catholic.

He was a Christian, although what he practiced was a mixture of German Lutheranism and old European paganism.

Answer 6

His mother was a catholic, but Hitler believed all religions were weak (as they teach mercy and love etc), and acceptable for women but not men.

Answer 7

He was born Catholic (as was every Austrian in the early 20th century). But he venerated the works of 19th century atheist philosophers, implemented social Darwinism, justified his racism with an appeal to evolution, removed the Bibles from German churches, implemented Germanic paganism in the religious rites of several elite Nazi units, and made statement after statement condemning Christianity.

Answer 8

Hitler was the closest thing to Satan you can find on Earth. Was he raised catholic yes..did he say he was..perhaps..Was he no. He was a foul living thing. He killed Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the infirm and mentally challenged, Christians, and anyone he felt like...

Answer 9

"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."
Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered in Berlin, 24 October 1933

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)

Paul Althaus, a Lutheran theologian of renown in Germany, warmly greeted the rise of Hitler. He wrote that, “The Protestant churches have greeted the political turning point as a gift and miracle of God”.. (“Die deutsche Stunde der Kirche,” p.5)

In a speech to Polish Catholics, Hitler declared: “I as a German Catholic, ask only what is permitted to Polish Catholics. To be antisemitic is not to be un-Catholic. The Church used every weapon against the Jews, even the Inquisition. Christ himself was a pioneer in the fight against Judaism.” (ibid, p. 146)

At a Church conference, Hitler affirmed that the Catholic Church has always regarded Jews as evildoers and had banished them into ghettos. He (Hitler) is only doing what the Church had been doing for fifteen hundred years.. (ibid, p. 79)

“I do insist on the certainty that sooner or later – once we hold power – Christianity will be overcome and the German Church established. Yes, the German church, without a Pope, and Luther, if he could be with us, would give us his blessing.” (Adolf Hitler, Hitler’s speeches, edited by Prof. N.H. Baynes [oxford, 1942], pg. 369.)

“If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the Elbe bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Avraham!.. I cannot convert the Jews. Our lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths so that there will be nothing for them to do but to lie upon the ground.” – Martin Luther


"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East." --- G.W. Bush , Commander in Chief of Abu Ghraib torture


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Answer 10

I think he was more like Henry Ford. They both hated Jews, they were both nationalists, industrialists and egotists, and if Christian churches hated or distrusted Jews also, they all found some common ground and used each other as Means to an End.

Fundamentalism is fundamentalism