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To: donh
Of course they did nothing of the sort, has the Hitler speeches I have quoted to you make perfectly clear. Hitler was born Catholic, and died catholic. He did not at any point renounce the church, nor the church him.

There you have it folks. This is what a ignorant bigot this guy is. IT should be noted that the whole purpose of excommunication is to help the sinner recognize the enormity of his sins, so he will seek forgiveness. As St. Paul wrote: "If any one refuses to obey our word by this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother." (2 Thes 3:14-15). Someone like Hitler, who did not believe in the truth of Christianity, would simply shrug it off. There was no point in excommunicating Hitler, just as there has never been any point in excommunicating any truely evil man. It has not point.

Need a quote of Hitler renouncing all of Christianity? Here's one: "National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity." -July 1941

It should also be noted that previous Bulls had made the excommunication of a man guilty of Hitler's crimes implicit, and that the Council of German Bishops excommunicated all Nazis in 1930.

165 posted on 11/06/2003 1:01:08 PM PST by presidio9 (a new birth of Freedom)
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To: presidio9
Of course they did nothing of the sort, has the Hitler speeches I have quoted to you make perfectly clear. Hitler was born Catholic, and died catholic. He did not at any point renounce the church, nor the church him.

There you have it folks. This is what a ignorant bigot this guy is....

Are you a jesuit?, you sure argue like one. Is or is not the truth of the matter exactly as I stated? Kindly show me a source that suggests that Hitler officially repudiated his Catholocism, or vice versa. Before you toss around another phrase like "ignorant bigot" around with such disdane.

184 posted on 11/06/2003 2:00:24 PM PST by donh (1)
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