There is a photo of him meeting with some moslem mufti, so by this reasoning he must have been a moslem.
are you kidding?
I know Hitler told General Heinrici who was a devout Christian that his Christianity was not compatible with being a German general.
On the other hand, I don’t think Hitler made any real threats against him, probably mainly because the General was a defensive genius.
You don’t have to be a Christian to be photographed in a religious setting. Obama’s presence at Rev Wright’s church is recent evidence of that.
Furthermore, it is well-documented that the Nazi Party got leaders of the Lutheran Church in Germany to allow the church to be turned into the German Church. At that point, it ceased to be Christian. Deitrich Bonheoffer and some others tried to bring the church back, but failed and then they created the Confessing Church to give German Christians an alternative to the state-run religion.
High-ranking church leaders are easy to influence because they often love the trappings of wealth and power more than they love Christ.
Yeah.....they have pictures of me in a garage with great frequency....doesn’t make me a car. Dolts
Hitler also recievfed and replied to several letters from Mahatma Ghandi. Did that make him a pacifist?
Churches in Germany under the NAZI were required to remove the Bible from their communion tables and replace it with a copy of Mein Kampf. They also replaced the Cross with a sword.
Yeah real Christian
Hitler was born into a Catholic family but he abandoned Christianity in his teen years for weird blend of occultism/manichaenism. He was heavily influenced by Nieztche, Wagner, and Shopenohauer. And in his dualistic Manichaen world, what we consider to be good...i.e. forgiveness, compassion, love etc, he considered to be evil and vice versa.
Hitler hated Christianity.
Here are some direct quotes from Hitler concerning Christianity. See if you think he was a Christian.
http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/hitlers-war-on-christianity-quotes/
Hitler worshiped demons.
He was born a Catholic but left no evidence of ever having been Christian as an adult. He attempted to co-opt and use the German State Church, which was Lutheran, for propaganda and control purposes. In this he had some small degree of success but his efforts were decidedly not in the favor of anything resembling Christianity. In his personal life, he apparently held Teutonic paganism in high esteem.
So, if “once a Catholic, always a Catholic” is true, he was a very lapsed one who attempted to distort the Protestant State Church beyond all recognition and elevated folk mythology above it.
Doesn’t sound very Christian to me.
Out of Mr. Hitler, why would we expect anything other than a cold, Machiavellian attempt to co-opt whatever “religious good will” he could get?
Personally, he seemed to be enamored of the Norse gods.
While he may have been brought *up* Christian he was no more a Christian in his *adult* life than Ted Kennedy was.
No. There is no evidence. The Scripture says that Christians are known by their fruit. Obviously, Christ was not residing in this man’s heart.
Now, if you want to talk about the fruits of socialism, I think we’ve got plenty of evidence to convict.
As a young adult, he was supposedly rebuff by a married Jewish woman at a picnic, if memory serves.
"Coveting his neighbor's wife" was only the beginning of his disdain for The Ten Commandments.
IMHO, the "artistic temperament" disdains convention, and Hitler was incomplete as an artist (couldn't depict people to save his life, but was good enough to make a living off of land and building-scapes), but loved the histrionics of power.
Officially Hitler was a Christian. But given his clear association with occult of the pagan type, he clearly gave up the tenets of the Christian faith long before he came to power.
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A little off topic, but I doubt any historian would argue about Hitlers animosity to Christianity, in particular the Catholic Church, and his unsuccessful attempt to replace Christianity with the Reichchurch, essential a pagan belief system with Christian symbiolism (spelled that wrong I bet). Largely unsuccessful, particularly amongst Catholics, forcing him to take the long term view via Hitler youth. And yes, I'm familiar with his relations with the Vatican, and the fact that Christians supported him just as they opposed him. Which doesn't change the fact that the thousand year Reich would have been pagan by the second or third generation.
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A little off topic, but I doubt any historian would argue about Hitlers animosity to Christianity, in particular the Catholic Church, and his unsuccessful attempt to replace Christianity with the Reichchurch, essential a pagan belief system with Christian symbiolism (spelled that wrong I bet). Largely unsuccessful, particularly amongst Catholics, forcing him to take the long term view via Hitler youth. And yes, I'm familiar with his relations with the Vatican, and the fact that Christians supported him just as they opposed him. Which doesn't change the fact that the thousand year Reich would have been pagan by the second or third generation.
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A little off topic, but I doubt any historian would argue about Hitlers animosity to Christianity, in particular the Catholic Church, and his unsuccessful attempt to replace Christianity with the Reichchurch, essential a pagan belief system with Christian symbiolism (spelled that wrong I bet). Largely unsuccessful, particularly amongst Catholics, forcing him to take the long term view via Hitler youth. And yes, I'm familiar with his relations with the Vatican, and the fact that Christians supported him just as they opposed him. Which doesn't change the fact that the thousand year Reich would have been pagan by the second or third generation.
After the butchery of young men in World War I, was a series of three plagues which afflicted young men and women as well. The first of these was the devastating Spanish flu, which is the worst modern plague, killing millions.
But it was followed with two far more enigmatic plagues, that were less common, but still devastating. The first was called “Encephalitis lethargica”, which left many people in a “waking coma”, and was depicted in the movie ‘Awakenings’, about a potential treatment found for these people many years later.
The third plague is the most enigmatic one of them all, of which very little is known. At the time it was called “brain fever”, and though it killed many, those that survived were known to experience deep paranoia and hate filled rages.
Adolf Hitler and many of the other Nazi leaders may have been afflicted with this brain fever, and the disease might have been instrumental in the creation in some of their aggressive and murderous political doctrines.
Added to this the strong decline of religion in Europe for many years, along with philosophies that despised it, makes it far less likely that Hitler saw Christianity as little more than just another system to subvert to the support of the state.