The truth is, "respecting Adolph Hitler" is an untenable position. When you are digging a hole you don't want to be in, you should stop digging.
Without claiming to guess your religious preferences, I just want to point out that by that logic one must consider, for example, Christianity to be an untenable religion. Jesus, after all, commands his faithful to (gasp!) love their enemies, and (quelle horreur!) pray for those who persecute them. But even assuming I hate someone's guts, it's entirely possible to respect them all the same.
I have not dug any holes. I have said nothing even remotely offensive to anyone who takes it at face value. YOU have created a controversy that never existed by completely ignoring anything that you didn't want to see. I suppose I could speculate on why you chose to do that, but I think it best not to pass judgment on anyone's motives. I am only accountable for my own heart. So let me say this: I do not apologize for what I said. Nor will I ever apologize for what I said.