RegulatorCountry:
A very accurate post. Hitler was indeed baptized Catholic but left the Church at 18 and never received the Sacraments again. He did persecute anyone who threatened his desire to make him and the German state and his nazi ideology the religion of Germany.
While he publicly at times was careful in not attacking either the majority Reformed and Lutheran CHurches, as well as the Catholic Church, in private and by his actions, he had no love for either, and particularly the Catholic Church which by its very essence and nature, was not tied to any nationalistic or country and thus was by its very nature “Catholic” in that ethnic groups from all over the world belonged to it, and those groups included ethnic groups which he viewed as inferior, and one of them, which bordered Germany, was Poland which he brutalized.
Now, may I ask you a question? There are many Protestants in these threads that jump in and ping together but as a Catholic, I never know which protestant group they belong to. So which Protestant tradition are you affiliated with? as I don’t think you are in fellowship with these other Protestants here as your posting style is totally different.
You are in my view, a very reasonable and even-handed poster and one that I as a Catholic would not have a problem “discussing” theology with [not this other nonsense that goes on with the usual suspects here].
Again, thanks for the well written and accurate post.
I’m the product of a “mixed” marriage, lol, maternally Lutheran and Moravian. Paternally, Primitive Baptist after the Civil War, Presbyterian before, literal brush arbor churches in the earliest frontier era of the NC backcountry.
As a result I don’t espouse a particular denomination, though I have sentimental regard for some of them, particularly the Moravians. I try to adhere to Biblical truth and allow room for differences of opinion if the area of disagreement does not have bearing upon salvation.