Will people ever stop to remember that HITLER was NOT a Christian?

Question

Just wondering. He didn't like Christians at all, so why do people attribute the Holocaust to Christians?

There were few, all across the board that risked their lives before it was widespread knowledge about what was happening. That is pretty common though- people won't stand up until everyone else is. Anyway.. The real question is, what do you attribute big ... 'mistakes',.... 'cruelties',... whatever you want to call them of humanity? When people do really bad things, and follow bad leaders- why?

Sorry if the questions aren't perfectly formulated, I hope you get it.

O rly??? he was?

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43)


HITLER

http://answers.org/apologetics/hitquote.html

shawn b, that is hardly proof. please give me something HE said.

Excuse me, I do not stand by any act of cruelty like that and my saying Hitler wasnt a believer doesn't negate what happened.

The HOLOCAUST happened and I will never forget it- Why do you think I brought up the post because you think I believe it should be forgotten? Hitlers religion doesnt make it forgetable or unforgettable, just perhaps helps understand WHY.

Okay, claiming to be a christian makes you one? reguardless of what you do or believe? makes sense.. I think I'll go join www.atheists.org and become one of their active members. I'll fit right in...

lol.. X(

Answer 1

first off, hitler was not a christian, he was a catholic, and i dare anyone to challenge me on this because i got all the proof in the world to back me up on this. and for anyone who does not know that catholicism is not christianity, or who does not know the difference, i would recommend the books smokescreens by jack t chick, and understanding roman catholicism by rick jones.. the second book alone will prove to you that catholicism is antichrist. sarah, learn to ask a question, nobody can understand your initial question, its not even in half sentances, i'll call you tonight and talk to you. and the answer to your initial question is: the reason ppl equate the holocaust to christianity is because they also equate catholicism to christianity, this is satan's plan, the cfatholicchurch is a false church set up by satan, using paganism painted and titled christianity, it is the roman catholic church. it goes like this, no roman catholic is a christian, no protestant is a catholic, some christians are protestants, there is a difference between all three, roman catholicism teaches heresy, and lies, protestantism protests catholicism but still upholds some of her traditions, christianity breaks free from both.. look at it this way, pope john paul was not a christian, but he was roman catholic, john calvin was not a christian thought he was a protestant, john wesley was both a christian and a protestant, david wilkerson is not a protestant nor a catholic, but he is a christian.. a protestant church is birthed from protesting roman catholicism, thats where john calvin, and john wesley's church came from, protesting roman catholicism.
basically the world likes to lump together anything that mentions the name Jesus as lord, even though not all serve the same Jesus.

you might as well select this one as best answer cause this is as good as you're going to get, i got to go to get ready fer church, i'll tty tonight. bye

p.s. i can back up everything i said about any historical person in this article with historical documentation, including pictures of hitler and some high ranking officials of roman catholicism rubbing elbows, at nazi party parties

Answer 2

To me, the big mistakes and cruelties of humanity happen because nobody does anything. The easiest way for bad things to happen is for good people to do nothing. That is exactly how Hitler was able to rise to power. Nobody tried to stop him before he got to the top.

America certainly wasn't going to get involved, we had the Great Depression to deal with. Besides, after World War 1, the U.S. didn't want anything to do with foreign affairs. We were perfectly content to stay by ourselves in our own little world. So, even if there hadn't been any domestic problems at the time Hitler was rising to power, the U.S. still wouldn't have intervened because we just didn't want to.

The Catholic Church also had no interest in intervention during the Holocaust. This is what I think you're talking about when you say that people attribute the Holocaust to Christians. The Pope at the time adopted a policy of "non-involvement" thus allowing a "bad person," Hitler, to gain power and carry out the Holocaust. I'm sure the church knew what was going on, but they did nothing. Again, bad things happen when good people do nothing.

Answer 3

He was a Christian. Not a good example of one though.

People attribute the Holocaust to the Nazi's (a screwed up group that thought they were being good Christians).

Please don't insult us anymore with all these lies about history, "the inquisition was a myth", "Hitler was not a Christian", "Priests molesting boys was a rumor" -

If you can't lie to people about Hitler being a Christian, are you going to deny the Holocaust, just so history paints a good light on all Christians?

There was a experiment done in 1971 that might give u some answers to ur more important questions

http://www.prisonexp.org/

Answer 4

Well there are plenty of reasons why people followed Hitler. One is the economic instability that Germany was in and they needed hope. He gave them that. There are plenty of other reasons, but there are entire books about it if you are interested.

Just because you don't agree with his actions doesn't mean he wasn't christian. I think the crusades and all the witch burning is enough proof that Christianity has been used to commit atrocities through out history. Hitler is no different.

I am not at all surprised you got that off an apologetic site. You do know what the entire point of religious apologetics is right? Just because he doesn't like every point of Christianity does not mean he is not christian. Catholics, Protestants, Pentecostals, Mormons, baptists, etc...these are all Christians even though they see things differently.

Answer 5

Here is Hitler's religion - Anti-Semitism. He was an Anti-Semite. He was a MURDERER, period. Not only didn't he like Christians, he didn't like Jews, Egyptians, Polish, the list goes on. He was a lover to power and hatred. The Holocaust wasn't only about Hitler, it was all about the people who were taken from their homes and who were forced to leave their valuables, were forced to live in concentration camps like sardines, and who were not given a meal but left to starve to death. The Holocaust was about people who were helpless, who were lied to and forced to enter the gas chambers that many never saw their families or children ever again.

The Holocaust is something everyone should remember and it should be taught in schools.

And I believe the Iranian president is another Hitler. Sorry I rambled too long.

Answer 6

A little thing like historical accuracy never stood in the way of demonizing an entire group of people before, so why should it now? If we are going to credit the Holocaust to Christianity, then we must also attribute the overthrow of the Nazi regime to Christianity. As for Hitler, he repeatedly denounced Christianity, calling it the product of sick brains, blaming it for the loss of the original Aryan utopia, comparing it to smallpox, etc.

Answer 7

Hitler was a Catholic and that is a form of Christianity regardless of what some people seem to believe.

Answer 8

Hitler ordered the holocaust - good christian germans did the dirty work.

Germany was a christian nation at the time of the holocaust. Figure it out.

Answer 9

"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 my self 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, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)

Yes, I know that you shouldn't judge a religion by it's followers, but he was a Christian. Not a very nice one, but still a Christian.

Answer 10

properly, i did no longer study lots of that to be trouble-free (it became relatively long), however the identify looked sufficient for me to assert no longer anybody Christians blame Islam for the strikes of folk. isn't it slightly loopy to think of we are each of a similar in basic terms simply by fact we are Christians/Atheists. I blame human beings for their strikes. Why ought to their faith have something to do with it? i'm going in charge somebody for the thoughts they make, in spite of lots else. i do no longer even understand why human beings think of Christians and Muslims might desire to be against one yet another. in case you worship God, or whether you do no longer, i visit nevertheless call you a brother or sister.