Is that official, though. Are you authorized to say that any Catholic who utters intemperate thoughts or doubts in private is automatically excommunicated?
Bearing in mind that the source for these quotes is someone who is on record as being anti-Christian, are you qualified to judge another person's soul based on the diary of Martin Bormann?
But you still haven't responded to my main point. Were the German people in on the gag? When Hitler said Christianity, did they wink and smile to each other, knowing that they were all secretly pagans?
The German people knew when Cardinal Faulhaber was placed under house arrest and Dietrich Bonhoeffer was driven underground that the regime had no tolerance for traditional Christianity of either the Catholic or Protestant variety.
So your saying you can wish to destroy the Catholic Church, disbelieve in transubstantion and think Jesus was an Aryan, and still be a Catholic?
Were the German people in on the gag? When Hitler said Christianity, did they wink and smile to each other, knowing that they were all secretly pagans?
Most Germans did not vote for Hitler. His party did not have a majority in the Rechistag and he his acquistion of power came via domestic turmoil and misjudgements by his political adversaries. Once he acquired power, he famously took over the means of controlling information and quashing dissent. A whole lot of Germans supported him because they were fed bad data.
A lot of decent Americans support totalitarian-inclined Democrats for the same reason.