Yes. He was also certifiably insane. He also replaced the bible in every school with that book of his that he wrote. I don't think anyone really approved of that.
He later rejected Catholicism and called himself some kind of pagan. Here's a link.
http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/Hitler.html
(you see a lot of these quotes echoed here on this site by self-proclaimed atheists) (I find that scary) "Christianity is a sickness." "Let Christianity die a natural death"
2007-12-04 04:50:09
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answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7
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From what I've read he was baptized Catholic, and raised going to the Catholic Church. He renounced Chritianity as an adult.
"There are negative statements about Christianity reported by Hitler's intimates, Goebbels, Speer, and Bormann.[25] Joseph Goebbels, for example, notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay." Albert Speer reports a similar statement: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[26] In the Hossbach Memorandum Hitler is recorded as saying that "only the disintegrating effect of Christianity, and the symptoms of age" were responsible for the demise of the Roman empire.[27] In 1941, Hitler praised an anti-Christian tract from 362CE, Julian's Against the Galileans, saying "I really hadn't known how clearly a man like Julian had judged Christians and Christianity, one must read this..."[28] He was reported to say that religion should die on its own accord.[29]"
Also, he was married in a civil ceremony. All good Catholics know that a civil marriage is not recognized by the Church. If he was a practicing Catholic he would have been married in the the Church.
Martin Luther, the father of the reformation, hated Jews. Apparently Hitler read his works and decided to take up that cause.
The thing we all have to remember is that people saying they do things for certain reasons or beliefs does not mean they actually are doing it for those reasons or beliefs. Hitler needed to convince the German people to participate in the extermination of a race. He will take whatever approach works.
There are many, many, Catholics today who would identify themselves as Catholic on a survey because that's what they were raised or baptized. But in reality their religion has absolutely no bearing on their life, their morals, or their attitude towards the world.
In my opinion, Hitler's leader was Satan himself and we all know Satan can twist just about anything to fit the time and the mind set.
2007-12-04 05:02:18
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answered by Misty 7
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This is Quote from Hitler in 1927:
“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognised 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.”
Hitler was NOT a Catholic .
At no point did Hitler criticise Jesus or God . Hitler saw Christianity as a corruption of Jesus’ teaches and he proclaimed ‘ Positive Christianity ‘ – removing all the bits he did not agree with.
Today , 2007 , Hitler would have embraced one of the ‘ other ' Gospels of Jesus Written well before 312 CE ( AD )
2007-12-04 20:30:29
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answered by londonpeter2003 4
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The mother in law of a lady I used to work with was put in a concentration camp when she was a young woman because she wanted to practice her Catholic faith. This was near the end of the Second World War
Hitler hated Gypsies, Blacks, Jews, Disabled people, Catholics, and anyone that wasn't a "perfect" Aryan. It doesn’t matter what he was raised to be, he wasn't anything but a hateful evil man when he lead the Nazi party.
2007-12-04 11:49:23
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answered by followthebird 2
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Hitler was a Catholic by name only.
The Holocaust killed more catholics than jews.
I love how people point of the "i am now as much catholic as i ever was" quote, but fail to acknowledge his "the greater the lie, the more it's repeated, the easier it is for the people to believe it" quote.
also, he created a nazi mythology consisting of occult and paganism. It stated that the germans were the descendants of monks that escaped the destruction of Atlantis. almost like gods.
lost.eu/21618
2007-12-04 10:49:25
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answered by Quailman 6
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in his last will and testament hitler speaks of the 'closing of my earthly career'. no such form of words would have been chosen by an atheist, so we know that hitler continued to be a believer right up until the moment of his death.
hitler had been raised catholic (you will find confirmation of this in any biographical source) but had quarreled with the church over criticism of the nazi party in 1933.
the catholic church' willingness to accomodate itself to nazism was established by the reichskonkordat of 1933, signed by cardinal pacelli (later pope pius xii).
but hitler as a former catholic would have known that all catholics are obliged to take holy communion at least once a year (usually at easter) on pain of excommunication. hitler is not known to have taken communion at any point after may 1933 (nor for a very long time before that), so he was certainly no longer a catholic.
hitler in fact collaborated with senior members of the ss in developing the nazis' own religion: a mixture of theosophy, eastern wisdom, and lutheran ideas (rather like modern-day wicca). the swastika itself is a holy symbol in several hindu traditions.
so hitler was certainly a believer at the time of his death, but equally certainly no catholic. one could call his belief system 'new age', 'charismatic', or 'fundamentalist protestant' - depending on which elements of it one wanted to focus on.
but it is probably most accurate to leave things at 'theist'.
2007-12-04 07:05:21
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answered by synopsis 7
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Hi,
Hitler was born RC but he abandoned the church and sacraments at a very early age.
But in fact, Germany was Hitler's religion. Though far from an atheist, Hitler was a Roman Catholic apostate. He at times would say things such as, "The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to Positive Christianity" [1934] — Positive Christianity being nonsectarian — and at other times would say, "National Socialism and Christianity cannot exist together" [1941]. It is certainly reasonable to suppose that Hitler used religion as Machiavelli recommended: as a tool of political influence and control. Therefore, Hitler would say about churches, "For their interests cannot fail to coincide with ours alike in our fight against the degeneracy in the world of today" (sometime 1922-1939).
Ultimately the Nazi plan for Christianity shows relgion was going to have some big problems. so fine example of a Christian he would have been.
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0033.html
Mike
2007-12-04 04:47:30
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answered by Mike K 7
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Catholic, yes. Most all of the history of Hitler shows he was a Catholic.
But Hitler did not practice his religion. He practiced the Occult and Astrology, mostly. But did use his religion to justify his acts, as most evil people do.
2007-12-04 04:46:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes'
and so was my 4 brothers
Now they do not worship or go to church
some do not believe
so to your question
catholics are not responsible for Hitlers attitude
2007-12-04 08:41:03
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answered by denis9705 5
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right it incredibly is a quote from Adolf Hitler... “i'm now as in the previous a Catholic and could continually stay so.” * in spite of the undeniable fact that some million.2 million Catholics went to the demise camps alongside with the Jews, Gypsies etc. (10+ million). yet in the interior maximum supplies.... 14th October, 1941, noon: "the main suitable ingredient is to allow Christianity die a organic demise.... whilst expertise of the universe has develop into known... Christian doctrine would be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the top of absurdity.... and thanks to this sometime its shape will give way.... ...the only thank you to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by using little.... Christianity the liar.... we will see to it that the church homes won't be able to unfold overseas teachings in conflict with the hobbies of the State." (p 40 9-fifty two) He became into common handy out Nietzsche and Darwin and picked an emblem linked with Hinduism and Buddhist image for the Nazi occasion and that i think like all potential hungry megalomaniac he could use theory and propaganda to cajole human beings to help him yet his remark jogs my memory of most of the dislike-theists we see in the worldwide immediately. in the top like Jesus pronounced we are to recognize them by using their fruit (by using their deeds) and concentration camps, mass executions etc. are only considered in the twentieth century in atheistic China and Cambodia and Russia.
2016-10-10 05:46:44
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answered by ? 4
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