Freeper Homer J Simpson has been posting day by day newspaper reports of the second world war. The NAZI’s seized a lot of Catholic properties and even replaced Catholic nuns at hospitals with ‘Nazi sisters’.
They were most definitely not friendly to the Catholic Church.
You can also look at the long list of faithful Catholics murdered in the concentration camps for more evidence of Nazi hostility. Like the modern liberal Democrat view... you can “seem” to support a religion... but don’t dare be faithful!
God uses the good ones... the bad ones use God.
So Hitler was born and baptized as a Roman Catholic, and self-identified as one when it was to his advantage. So what? Politicians do this all the time. Recall Bill Clinton’s penchant for carrying a huge Bible to and fro Sunday services. Later on at least one of these occasions, he would be serviced by Monica on her presidential kneepads. Or Bush’s and Obama’s penchant for praising Islam as a religion of peace. Or, virtually every politician’s call for “God bless America.” These invocations of the diety and praise for religion serve political rather than spiritual ends.
To argue against the Catholic Church and Christianity in general by proclaiming “Hitler was a Christian” and “Hitler was a Catholic” is nonsense. It’s a waste of time to argue against it because its adherents are too stupid and ignorant to grasp sound reasoning. They don’t understand logic. They don’t know history. And they are utterly ignorant about Christianity. It’s just phony sophistry to slander Christianity and the Catholic Church.
There are, unfortunately, plenty of valid and very serious criticisms of the conduct of the Catholic Church and Christendom generally. The fact that Hitler occasionally self-identified as a Catholic to deceive the German faithful simply isn’t one of them.