True. I find it hard to believe that a person who had spent one consecutive hour reading the teachings of Christ could come to the conclusion that genocide is acceptable, however; thus I'm forced to think that Hitler was either radically mistaken about what he believed about Christ and God, or that he knows Machiavelli well enough to "color it, and to be a great hypocrite and deceiver."
True. I find it hard to believe that a person who had spent one consecutive hour reading the teachings of Christ could come to the conclusion that genocide is acceptable True. But a little time spent reading Martin Luther could lend itself to violent anti-semitism.
Hitler no more understood Jesus and real Christianity than he understood quantum physics. I don't blame Christianity or religion for what he wrought. Nor do I blame atheism for what Stalin did.
Collectivism - the notion that the group has rights superior to the individual (be that group the race, the religion, the cause, or society) - is what is to blame for the genocides of the past.