Posted on 05/21/2016 11:30:06 AM PDT by Woodland
“[T]he only way of getting rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.”
– Adolf Hitler
Yes, there have been evil men who have done evil things in the name of false Christianity. To a limited degree, Adolf Hitler was one such man. Still, and as even he frequently admitted outside the public eye, he was no Christian.
As a counterweight to stigma associated with the tens of millions slaughtered in the 20th century alone under the atheist regimes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al., the secular left is quick to thunder, “But what about Hitler? He was a Christian!”
Bad news, kids. Herr Führer was your guy, too.
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And Obama is no Christian.
Another Hitler post. What’s the point?
Tim McVeigh is also often accused of being a Christian terrorist. He explicitly made sure in his ghost written biography that everyone knew he was an atheist.
I’d just guess it’s because in this election we are being bombarded with Trump = Hitler news, editorials, stump speeches, etc.
Sorry you were forced to look, who did that to you? Tell us!
If the Nationalist Socialist German Working-men’s Party had ANY ties to any religion at all, it would have been drawn to the pagan pre-Christian Nordic religion that had Odin and Thor at the top of the pantheon, with the phalanx of Valkyries hovering above the battlefield, choosing who should live and who should die in battle. Everything was based on the valor of those who chose to die to defend the greater glory. The primary role of the Valkyries was to swell the ranks of Odin’s deathless army by spiriting the “best of the slain” from the battlefield, away to Valhalla.
Mein Kampf and the Koran have a great many similarities in style and manner of defending some kind of “Honor”. Could the “72 virgins” promised to the Islamic jihadists be another rendition of the Valkyrie horde swearing allegiance to Odin?
Allah as Odin. It makes so much more sense now.
Maybe not. The Valkyrie, they are some pretty scary ladies.
It’s all a bunch of bullshinto anyway. Creepy F’s.
The European rightwing (especially in Scandinavia, from what I understand) is rife with Euro-centric paganism.
Hitler’s war on Christ: Joel Miller explores Nazi plan to eradicate the Church
“The fragile, typewritten documents from the 1940s lay out the Nazi plan in grim detail,” writes Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Edward Colimore: “Take over the churches from within, using party sympathizers. Discredit, jail or kill Christian leaders. And re-indoctrinate the congregants. Give them a new faith – in Germany’s Third Reich.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/606793/posts
Pinning “Christian” on Hitler is a perpetual attack against Christianity. This is precisely why we don’t want terms like “Christian”, “Evangelical” and “Conservative” thrown around and co-opted.
“First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People”
Hitler’s views on Islam
Among eastern religions, Hitler described religious leaders such as “Confucius, Buddha, and Mohammed” as providers of “spiritual sustenance”.[224] In this context, Hitler’s connection to Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, who served the Mufti of Jerusalem until 1937 — which included asylum in 1941, the honorary rank of an SS Major-General, and a “respected racial genealogy” — has been interpreted by some as more of a sign of respect than political expedience.[225] Starting in 1933, al-Husseini, who had launched a campaign to free various parts of the Arab region from British control and expel Jews from both Egypt and Palestine, became impressed by the Jewish boycott policies which the Nazis were enforcing in Germany, and hoped that he could use the anti-semitic views which many in the Arab region shared with Hitler’s regime in order to forge a strategic military alliance that would help him eliminate the Jews from Palestine.[226] Despite al-Husseini’s attempts to reach out to the Third Reich, Hitler refused to form such an alliance with al-Husseini, fearing that it would weaken relations with Britain,[227] and early relations between the two would be solely based on anti-Semitic ideology.[226]
During the unsuccessful 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, Husseini and his allies took the opportunity to strengthen relations with the Third Reich and enforced the spread of Nazi customs and propaganda throughout their strongholds in Palestine as a gesture of respect.[228] In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood would follow al-Husseini’s lead.[229] Hitler’s influence soon spread throughout the region, but it was not until 1937 that the Nazi government agreed to grant al-Husseini and the Muslim Brotherhood’s request for financial and military assistance.[226]
Nazi-era Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer acknowledged that in private, Hitler regarded Arabs as an inferior race[230] and that the relationship he had with various Muslim figures was more political than personal.[230] During a meeting with a delegation of distinguished Arab figures, Hitler learned of how Islam motivated the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic invasion of Gaul and was now convinced that “the world would be Mohammedan today” if the Arab regime had successfully taken France during the Battle of Tours,[230] while also suggesting to Speer that “ultimately not Arabs, but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.”[230]
In speeches, Hitler made apparently warm references towards Muslim culture such as: “The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France”.[231]
According to Speer, Hitler stated in private, “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?”[230] Speer also stated that when he was discussing with Hitler events which might have occurred had Islam absorbed Europe: “Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country.[230]
Similarly, Hitler was transcribed as saying: “Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers [...] then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world.”[23
Just as long as the “ladies” wore burkas then all is okay.
“Sorry you were forced to look, who did that to you? Tell us!”
It’s a conspiracy I tell you! They are threatening my family. They’ve taken my dog hostage!
Yes, he would.
From everything I’ve read and seen, he identified more closely with Muslim. He worked with them on the Jew problem.
Evil men can describe their motives any way they want-religious, economic, equitable, social justice, revenge, retribution...anything. The only thing that matters is to recognize that they’re evil and respond appropriately. Rhetoric be damned.
I doubt that Hitler was a Christian but the churches in Germany and especially the Vatican certainly had a soft spot for him.
Seriously? The Christians and especially the Vatican didn’t have a soft spot on him. Heck, Pope Pius XII actually went out of his way to condemn Hitler’s actions and risked his life to save the various Jews. One of the Grand Rabbis of Italy actually converted and used as his Christianized name that of Pius XII specifically as thanks for how he saved Judaism.
The whole thing about Christians and the Vatican had a soft spot for Hitler was disinformation pushed by Bertrold Brecht in his KGB-backed play The Deputy.
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