Hitler was a catholic?

Question

or was it christianity? and whats the big difference?

Answer 1

His book Mein Kampf is riddled with quotes professing his belief in God.
So I seriously doubt he was an atheist.
"We demand freedom for all religious confessions in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or conflict with the customs and moral sentiments of the Germanic race. The party as such represents the standpoint of a positive Christianity, without owing itself to a particular confession...."


- Article 20 of the program of the German Workers' Party (later named the National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP)

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

- Adolf Hitler, to General Gerhard Engel, 1941

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 2

What we have to fight for is the necessary security for the existence and increase of our race and people, the subsistence of its children and the maintenance of our racial stock unmixed, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland; so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 8

This is not to say that he was a typical Christian (obviously), but he was not an atheist.

Answer 2

Hitler was a Catholic which means he was primarily influenced by Renaissance High Enlightenment thought. Protestant thought was influenced by the Northern Reformation framework which held to the Bible as the final authority on all things. Catholicisms' view was that the authority lay in the Church and the Bible which meant a humanistic element was present by default in Catholicism. Hitler held to this humanistic element when he said that Germany must forsake the Christian ethic of helping the weak and take up a humanistic framework of survival of the fittest. Many think he was rejecting the Catholic position but he was in fact reinforcing it. Catholicism begins with science and not the Bible and is essentially 'theistic evolution' after the Darwinian tradition. However Catholics like Protestants, needed a redeemer lest either incorrectly judges the other.

Answer 3

Catholic is a denomination of Christianity vastly different from the rest. Hitler was a Catholic.

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 Hitler's own words against Christianity, see: http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/Hitler.html

For more information about excommunication, see: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm
And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunicate#Automatic_excommunication

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Hello,

Hitler was born into the Catholic religion but abandoned it and the sacraments at a very early age.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 6

he was a freak, plain and simple.
Catholicism is a form of Christianity.
Just like Baptists, Lutherans, and Methodists, we all believe in God and have some similar beliefs.
But Catholics are the only religious group with popes, making them the first religion because in the bible, Jesus declared Peter the rock of the church and made him the first pope.
All other religions were branched off of Judaism or Catholicism.
Lutherans have VERY similar beliefs to Catholics, but there are some defferences.

Answer 7

Yes Hitler was a Catholic and so was Stalin.

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From the Lansing State Journal newspaper (Lansing, Michigan) of February 23, 1933.

HITLER AIMS BLOW AT 'GODLESS' MOVE
Chancellor's Forces Seek the Catholic Support for Latest Campaign



BERLIN, Feb. 23 (AP)--A campaign against the "godless movement" and an appeal for Catholic support were launched Wednesday by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's forces. They struck at two of his formidable opponents in the March 5 elections, the first at communists and the latter at the allied Catholic parties.

Meanwhile five more persons were killed and scores were injured Tuesday night in the incipient civil war which has been waging since Hitler's rise to power. This brought the number of deaths in political clashes since the first of the year, when Hitler began negotiations for the chancellorship, to about 70.

A campaign against the "godless movement" was announced by Bernard Rust, nazi commissioner for education and culture in Prussia, in an address Tuesday night before students at the technical university here. He said the details would be revealed in the next few days. In his speech opening the campaign for the reichstag and Prussian diet elections, Hitler attacked communists for the spread of atheism.

An appeal to Catholic nazis was printed Wednesday in Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter, assailing the Catholic centrist and populist parties. It recalled the papal encyclical of January 9, 1928, which admonished priests to serve the religious interests of the nation and not to affiliate with political parties. Hitler, himself, is a Catholic.

Nazis invaded a centrist campaign meeting at Trier but were repulsed after a stiff fight. Several persons were injured at Kiel and Opladen in nazi-reichsbanner clashes.

Answer 8

Records of his private conversations - Many of these were recorded by his secretary and published in a book called Hitler's Table Talk (Adolf Hitler, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1953).
Hitler:
"Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery."

Answer 9

Yes, he was a Catholic with Jewish ancestry. And he hated them both. Is that hypocritical or what.

Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity.

Answer 10

Hitler wrote: "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.."
http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm