Posted on 11/25/2015 5:27:20 PM PST by Kaslin
Whatever one thinks about the controversy over Syrian refugees and ISIS, Whoopi Goldberg's recent comments on national television trying to convince us that Christian refugees are just as scary as Muslims disseminates an idea that circulates widely on the internet, i.e., that Hitler was a Christian. She stated, "There have been a lot of horrifying there have been a lot of monster Christians. Hitler was a Christian." When her interlocutors balked at this, she then defended her position by saying, "He didn't like the Catholics, remember? So he thought of himself as a Christian person." Goldberg apparently doesn't understand that Catholicism is a branch of Christianity, or that Hitler despite his opposition to Catholicism was officially a Catholic.
If Goldberg were the only one confused about Hitler's relationship to Christianity, we could ignore it. However, she was expressing a view that circulates widely, especially in atheist circles. Leading atheist intellectuals, such as Richard Dawkins, have insisted that Hitler was a sincere Christian. Their evidence? He said so himself in some of his speeches in the 1920s. In one famous quote circulating on dozens of atheist websites, Hitler stated (on April 12, 1922), "My Christian feeling directs me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. As a Christian I do not have the duty to allow the wool to be pulled over my eyes, but I have the duty to be a fighter for the truth and for what is right. As a Christian I also have a duty toward my own people (Volk)."
Strangely, those trumpeting this quotation as proof that Hitler was indeed a Christian display the attitude: Hitler said it, I believe it, and that settles it. Never does it seem to cross their minds that Hitler might be gasp lying for political advantage. They are as convinced of Hitler's veracity as the naïve British Prime Minister Chamberlain was when he arrived back from the Munich Conference waving a sheet of paper with Hitler's signature on it and proclaiming: "It is peace for our time." In short, they gullibly swallow Hitler's propaganda (and they blithely ignore a plethora of Hitler's anti-Christian remarks).
Fortunately, my forthcoming book, Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich (2016) will definitively lay to rest the canard that Hitler was a Christian. By examining in painstaking detail Hitler's writings, speeches, private conversations, and the testimony of his colleagues, I demonstrate that Hitler’s worldview was far more anti-Christian than Christian. For one thing, there is powerful evidence that Hitler purposely lied about his religious convictions. For instance, when Hitler was in Landsberg Prison, his right-hand man, Rudolf Hess, wrote in a confidential letter that Hitler told him that, as painful as it was for him, "for reasons of political expediency he [Hitler] had to play the hypocrite toward his church."
Secondly, Hitler often made anti-Christian remarks to his private entourage, and even occasionally slipped in some anti-Christian comments in his public writings and speeches. Hitler not only abhorred the Old Testament of the Christian Bible as Jewish, but he rejected most of the New Testament, especially the epistles of Paul, whom he considered a sneaky Jewish rabbi who smuggled Jewish ideas into Christianity. To be sure, Hitler did esteem Jesus highly, because he thought Jesus was an Aryan antisemitic fighter fathered by a Roman solider (thus not the Son of God born of a virgin). His favorite Bible story, as he told it, was when Jesus wielded a whip to drive those money-grubbing Jews out of the temple. Hitler clearly did not believe in Jesus's resurrection, claiming that Jesus's life ended in failure, since he was martyred by the Jews.
Almost from the beginning of his political career to the end, Hitler portrayed Christianity as a tool of the Jews that supplanted the Greco-Roman culture that he loved. He continually complained that Christianity was still imbued with a Jewish spirit. He remonstrated against Christian morality, especially its exaltation of humility and compassion for the sick and weak.
On the other hand, Hitler held in the highest esteem anti-Christian philosophers, such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Hitler even donated his own personal funds to the Nietzsche Archive to promote the ideas of this God-is-dead philosopher. Hitler also expressed admiration for the religious views of Frederick the Great, who was a patron of such Enlightenment luminaries as the deist Voltaire and the atheist La Mettrie.
In sum, Hitler remained officially a Catholic throughout his life, and he esteemed Jesus highly. However, he denied that Jesus was God and ridiculed Christian doctrines, rejected the Christian holy book, and hated Christian moral standards. In one diatribe in 1941 he stated, "Christianity is the most insane thing that a human brain in its delusion has ever brought forth, a mockery of everything divine."
Gee, some dude wrote a book saying Hitler wasn’t a Christian. Shocker.
No. Whoopster wouldn’t know truth from her anus.
ANYONE can “say” they’re a Christian - take Obama for example... What he ACTUALLY believes is displayed in his behavior which is very anti-Christian.
Does anyone really give a $hit about what Karin Johnson says or does? She’s an ignorant fool. Just the fact that she’s trying to lump all Christianity with Hitler’s behavior shows me that she is a very ignorant and stupid ass.
This is a woman who has admitted to murdering (aborting) six of her own children. I get really fed up whenever this moron gets any kind of publicity and attention.
We all know Hitler and the Nazis were inspired and influenced by the occult. No, he was not a Christian.
I roll my eyes at Whoopi’s lib idiocy.
Joe the Drummer has HIT THE NAIL on the head, naked truth about Whoppi Goldberg. Whoppi is as qualified to judge the christian status of Hitler is the same way that a Community Organizer thinks he knows how to run the worlds largest economy. Hitler, do we have a record of how often he did communion, his tithing practices, his attendance of baptism, and confessional visits.
Hitler admired Muslims and murdered Christians.
“Why Hitler Wished He Was Muslim
The Führer admired Atatürk’s subordination of religion to the state—and his ruthless treatment of minorities.”
True Judeo-Christian societies do not engage in mass murder and world conquest. Collectivist Marxist/socialist/fascist/Islamic totalitarian societies do.
SS Nazis were steep in paganism and the occult.
He couldn’t have been a Christian since he killed so many Jew and others. That isn’t Christian behavior.
As always, every denomination has its own theology regarding how one identifies those who are Christian. Very few of them equate ‘church membership’ as the important issue, and most will not affirm that church membership equals salvation.
Jesus himself affirms in parable that there will be weeds sown amidst the wheat, that there will be a time of separating sheep from goats, and that many call Him Lord but He’ll tell them to depart from Him for they are nothing more than workers of iniquity.
I do not determine any man’s salvation, but the bible does tell me that by their fruits I will know them.
Hitler’s fruits argue that he was not a Christian.
The bigger question:
Is Whoopi Goldberg a human?
Hitler was no Christian. He wanted Germany to return to its pre-Christian, pagan past. He called Christianity a “weak, Jewish religion” (his words).
Hitler was a christian like obama is a christian, obama’s real identity, he is the Supreme Imam/Caliph of the entire islamic world.
Does anyone really give a $hit about what Karin Johnson says or does?
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I’d rather hear what Maria del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza has to say about it.
(and she’s still “got it” at age 64.)
Whether he was or wasn’t, it was Christian who stopped him, largely, and at least some Mullahs were supporters.
She should get down on her wrinkled, fat knees and beg for forgiveness for all her crap.
I can't stand her or any of the dim bulbs that appear on that show with her.
BTTT
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