[Uncle Chip]

“For the record, Hitler persecuted the Catholic Church and was automatically excommunicated in 1931—two years before he assumed power—when he acted as best man at Joseph Goebbel’s Protestant wedding.

Of all the horrendous deeds for which Hitler should have been excommunicated, and yet this is the reason given: being the best man at a Protestant wedding???

[Emmett McCarthy]

Look at the year - 1931 - It was not approporiate or necessary to “re-excommunicate” for later stuff.

[mel]

What an unusual tidbit of information, you must read a lot

[tpanther]

One of the arguments atheists or more accurately anti-theists use to denigrate Christianity is to state Hitler was a Christian.

Because he quoted scripture at his hatefest rallies, that is the sole determining factor in figuring out if he, or anyone else is a Christian.

I don’t know much about Catholicism and their views on what it means to be to “be a Christian” but for Protestants to be a follower of Christ and indeed a Christian, one must profess that Jesus Christ died for their sins, is the saviour of mankind and repents of his or her sins and becomes filled with the Holy Spirit and is “born again”.

I don’t know if Hitler ever did such a thing, but somehow I doubt it.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Maybe it’s like nailing the mob for tax evasion when you know they’ve committed worse crimes. It’s just easier to prove? I don’t know.

[It's me]

Hitler persecuted the Catholic Church and was automatically excommunicated in 1931—two years before he assumed power—

How many horrendous deeds did he do two years before he assumed power?

[Cronos]

he was excommunicated in 1931 — he came to power in ‘33 and the final solution started in the ‘40s. He was already practically non-Catholic before the ‘20s