No need for Dr. Dawkins to it, the Nazi photographers have it covered:
Hitler's Brown shirts (SA) attending and leaving church services.
Hitler leaves the Marine Church in Wilhelmshaven.
Hitler in front of the "Church of our Lady" --a Brown shirt rally, Nuremberg 1928.
Hitler at the same church, now sans Brown shirts.Nuremberg 1934
Hitler as "best man" at Hermann Goring wedding.
(Only Christians perform Christian weddings, and the Nazis were no exception)
Same with Christmas.
and
Christmas 1944 with Nazi officers and their girlfriends.
The Concordat between the Vatican and the Nazis.
(Note the Concordat legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world)
Chaplain with a machine gun unit.
(Note the insignia on the officers cap and Christian Cross around his neck)
Memorial for Fallen SS Soldiers, Poland 1939.
Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler.
Spanish Bishops giving the fascist salute.
Cardinal Michael Faulhaber marches between rows of SA men at a Nazi rally in Munich.
More Priests giving the Hitler salute, August 1933.
Welcome Celebration for Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing in the Sportpalast, Berlin, 8 Sept. 1935
(Note the Chi Rho Cross, next to the Swastika)
Flags of the Deutsche Christen (German Christians), an amalgam of Lutheran, Catholics, and the NSDAP (Nazi Party).
(Note the flags with the Christian cross with the swastika centered on the cross)
SA storm troopers with placards of the "German Christians," Berlin, July 1933.
Hitler himself appeals to all Protestant Christians in a radio speech on the eve of the election to vote for the "German Christians."
Presidium of the "German Christians," Berlin, November 13, 1933
(After "The Church and the State" election)
National Bishop Friedrich Coch giving a Hitler greeting in Dresden, 10 December 1933
Gott Mit Uns (God With Us) Nazi Buckle
Hitler and mother with the Mutterkreuz (Mother's Cross)
(Note the longer lower branch, it's a Christian Cross, not the symmetrical Iron Cross used for military decorations)
Schlageter pin badge
In memory of Nazi Leo Schlageter, a martyr for the German cause. Executed by the French in Duesseldorf in May 1923.
Leo Schlageter memorial
Grave of Alois and Klara Hitler at St. Michael's), in Leonding, Austria
(Hitler visited the grave of his parents, shown center, on March 12, 1938, the day he followed his troops as they invaded Austria)
Detail of a frieze carved into the side of the pulpit at Martin Luther Memorial Church in Berlin.
(Note the Aryan Jesus next to the Nazi soldier and Aryan women and children)
Baptismal font with carving of Hitler holding an stormtrooper's cap.
German Lutheran Church Gazette honoring Hitler, April 1939.
Translation reads: "German Deacons' Gazette
MAGAZINE FOR MALE DEACONS
Organ of the German Deacons
One is your Master, Christ, but ye are all brethren
(Note the Crown & Cross in the upper right,the Lutheran Church still uses the symbol today)
"When you see a cross"
Page from the anti-Semitic German children's book, "Der Giftpilz" (The Poisonous Mushroom)
The text reads, "When you see a cross, then think of the horrible murder by the Jews on Golgotha..."
"Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ" 1913 by Adolf Hitler
It's really quite attractive, actually. Something only a Christian could invent.
Note that Jesus looks like a blond haired Aryan. Which is appropriate, Nazis did not consider Jesus a Jew)
"Mountain scene with wayside cross" 1925 by Adolf Hitler
Wow This just screams for a 'John 3:16' quote ...
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Okey-doke, Oshkalaboomboom. I'm done for now.
Sooo what do you have, I mean, besides a BS book by faux-historian Richard Weikart or bogus quotes from François Genoud?
Or maybe you can jitterbug around with the same old lame excuse: "Hitler didn't act like a Christian, so he wasn't a Christian"?
Most fascinating Best Man Toast ever....
I'd love to trace the evolution of your memorabilia collection......it's not the result of intelligent design by chance?
Do some research before you post next time! :-). I would never have thought of using pictures. How can anyone argue with that? Oh yeah, “He was just pretending to be a Christian”. He never mentioned Darwin, but he claimed to be a Catholic. Last I heard, if you say you are a Christian, you are a Christian, only God knows for sure.
Proving a point with Nazi propoganda photos or mediocre artworks by the pre-apostate Hitler? This is akin to proving the ultimate value of Scientology with “Battlefield Earth”.
I think that pretty well sums up weather Hitler was a true Cristian or was just masquerading as one."Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."
Matthew 7:15-20
Where’s you picture of Hitler partaking of the Eucharist? Where’s your picture of him with a rosary? Where’s your picture of him with a Bible? With his hand on it?
Bfd, he posed by a cathedral. Catholic-bashing again? Any REAL Catholic would NEVER committ suicide, NEVER.
Nice pics. Got any more? Got any pics of modern clergymen and the Waco murderers by any chance?
MUST-SEE WWI/WWII era post here.
Sorry, pics of Hitler standing in front of a church don't make him Catholic. But they do say something about you.
Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...
Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly. - Albert Einstein
Simply AMAZING!
It never ever ceases to amaze me how people think attending church makes one a Christian!
But NOW because the nazis photographed themselves in and around churches, clergy and the like, Hitler was a Catholic!
Hitler walked into a cathedral, so he was a Catholic!
A chaplain pictured with the troops, so of course: HITLER was a Christian!
WHO KNEW?
Perhaps you can point out ONE single New Testament scripture that justified Hitler’s actions?
This post is simply beyond words! I’m not a Catholic, but I think it’s most obvious to virtually all that perhaps you’ve wandered way too far off the daily kos!
So far you’ve been able to display that you can cut and paste, nothing more.
But I guess the jury is still out on what a rather extensive nazi library you hold and rather or not you bought the nazi propoganda for real!
Any chance you have any pics of Hitler and the nazis embracing ancient nordic paganism?
Nahhhhhhh....nevermind.
No, that was pretty impressive. I'm going to have to rethink my opinions now not only on Hitler but Ted Kennedy, Mario Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi.