Posted on 11/25/2015 5:27:20 PM PST by Kaslin
Whatever one thinks about the controversy over Syrian refugees and ISIS, Whoopi Goldberg's recent comments on national television trying to convince us that Christian refugees are just as scary as Muslims disseminates an idea that circulates widely on the internet, i.e., that Hitler was a Christian. She stated, "There have been a lot of horrifying there have been a lot of monster Christians. Hitler was a Christian." When her interlocutors balked at this, she then defended her position by saying, "He didn't like the Catholics, remember? So he thought of himself as a Christian person." Goldberg apparently doesn't understand that Catholicism is a branch of Christianity, or that Hitler despite his opposition to Catholicism was officially a Catholic.
If Goldberg were the only one confused about Hitler's relationship to Christianity, we could ignore it. However, she was expressing a view that circulates widely, especially in atheist circles. Leading atheist intellectuals, such as Richard Dawkins, have insisted that Hitler was a sincere Christian. Their evidence? He said so himself in some of his speeches in the 1920s. In one famous quote circulating on dozens of atheist websites, Hitler stated (on April 12, 1922), "My Christian feeling directs me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. As a Christian I do not have the duty to allow the wool to be pulled over my eyes, but I have the duty to be a fighter for the truth and for what is right. As a Christian I also have a duty toward my own people (Volk)."
Strangely, those trumpeting this quotation as proof that Hitler was indeed a Christian display the attitude: Hitler said it, I believe it, and that settles it. Never does it seem to cross their minds that Hitler might be gasp lying for political advantage. They are as convinced of Hitler's veracity as the naïve British Prime Minister Chamberlain was when he arrived back from the Munich Conference waving a sheet of paper with Hitler's signature on it and proclaiming: "It is peace for our time." In short, they gullibly swallow Hitler's propaganda (and they blithely ignore a plethora of Hitler's anti-Christian remarks).
Fortunately, my forthcoming book, Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich (2016) will definitively lay to rest the canard that Hitler was a Christian. By examining in painstaking detail Hitler's writings, speeches, private conversations, and the testimony of his colleagues, I demonstrate that Hitler’s worldview was far more anti-Christian than Christian. For one thing, there is powerful evidence that Hitler purposely lied about his religious convictions. For instance, when Hitler was in Landsberg Prison, his right-hand man, Rudolf Hess, wrote in a confidential letter that Hitler told him that, as painful as it was for him, "for reasons of political expediency he [Hitler] had to play the hypocrite toward his church."
Secondly, Hitler often made anti-Christian remarks to his private entourage, and even occasionally slipped in some anti-Christian comments in his public writings and speeches. Hitler not only abhorred the Old Testament of the Christian Bible as Jewish, but he rejected most of the New Testament, especially the epistles of Paul, whom he considered a sneaky Jewish rabbi who smuggled Jewish ideas into Christianity. To be sure, Hitler did esteem Jesus highly, because he thought Jesus was an Aryan antisemitic fighter fathered by a Roman solider (thus not the Son of God born of a virgin). His favorite Bible story, as he told it, was when Jesus wielded a whip to drive those money-grubbing Jews out of the temple. Hitler clearly did not believe in Jesus's resurrection, claiming that Jesus's life ended in failure, since he was martyred by the Jews.
Almost from the beginning of his political career to the end, Hitler portrayed Christianity as a tool of the Jews that supplanted the Greco-Roman culture that he loved. He continually complained that Christianity was still imbued with a Jewish spirit. He remonstrated against Christian morality, especially its exaltation of humility and compassion for the sick and weak.
On the other hand, Hitler held in the highest esteem anti-Christian philosophers, such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Hitler even donated his own personal funds to the Nietzsche Archive to promote the ideas of this God-is-dead philosopher. Hitler also expressed admiration for the religious views of Frederick the Great, who was a patron of such Enlightenment luminaries as the deist Voltaire and the atheist La Mettrie.
In sum, Hitler remained officially a Catholic throughout his life, and he esteemed Jesus highly. However, he denied that Jesus was God and ridiculed Christian doctrines, rejected the Christian holy book, and hated Christian moral standards. In one diatribe in 1941 he stated, "Christianity is the most insane thing that a human brain in its delusion has ever brought forth, a mockery of everything divine."
Here is the education section of whooping goldberg’s resume
Goldberg dropped out of Washington Irving High School.[10][11][12] She worked as a phone sex operator, working from home at night
By the way, Whoopie must hate God with a passion.
All that and no mention of his occult ties... the occultic symbolism in dress and construction - and the things that went on in Wewelsburg castle, which was purposefully set up for occult practices... And nothing stated about his neo-paganism either. He paid a lot of attention to Nordic gods.
There are plenty of things to point to for awful things done in the name of the Messiah - But Hitler and his crew are not one of them. And I would not say that he 'esteemed Jesus highly', but rather than he bent the form of the Christian Messiah into 'another christ' to suit his purpose.
I wish I had thought of that one.
Wow..... I did not know that.... She be one murdering Ho.!
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We used to have a few blithering imbeciles here on FR who insisted that Hitler was a Christian.
Not sure if they are still here, spreading their moronic bilge; demonstrating their breathtaking ignorance of history.
So what. There are plenty of rotten people who go through the motions of being a Christian.
Well hell..! She could run for President of the United States.... And probably win....
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Perhaps he was in his early life. Does that mean that his actions are in any way sanctioned by Christians?
Mostly Christian’s with a Judeo-Christian ethic went in to clean him out, and clean up after him.
LOL. Whoopsie, is off her medication again.
Ms. Goldberg, see any Islamic people taking military action to weed out terrorists in their midst?
Hitler / Terrorists
We put an end to evil in our midst.
Islam looks the other way.
Jihad, 72 virgins, children suicide bombers See if you can figure out which “religion” (death cult) sanctions that.
Look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
bttt
No, he was into paganism as was most of the high level Nazis. History just does not fit dem narrative.
Until, that is, it was discovered that she was actually a very faithful Democrat!
Was Whoopi right that the moon landings were a hoax filmed in a studio?
Was Whoopi right that Roman Polanski’s drug assisted oral and anal sodomy of an unwilling 13 year old girl really not ‘rape rape’?
BM
File this with her statement 7 years ago saying that the US constitution as written gives whites the right to own black slaves.
To be polite, she is no reliable source for info.
Exactly. You tell these people he was a Socialist, because he did say so, and that the NAZI party’s acronym stood for National Socialist German Worker’s Party they will still tell you he was a Fascist. They want it both ways, as usual. They do everything they can to make him “Right Wing”. It seems to me he was just a mixed bag and in the end was just an odd flavor of Tyranny.
Here below is the letter I did on the subject, which I do not think was published in any of the many papers I sent it to.
On my book shelf I consulted the index of three Adolph Hitler authoritative biographies plus my copy of Mein Kampf. None of them have Christianity or Christian or any such reference included. Since he resided in an ostensibly “Christian†country he was as much a Christian as a McDonald’s worker becomes a Big Mac.
Hitler’s vision for Germany can be found in the thirty articles for the National Reich Church. Among the essential provisions there would be no pastors, chaplains, or priests, but only National Reich orators. The greatest of all documents would be the Fuehrer’s Mein Kampf and all crucifixes, Bibles, and pictures of saints would be cleared away. On the day of its foundation, the Christian Cross would be removed from all churches, cathedrals, and chapels and superseded by the only unconquerable symbol, the swastika.
Stupidity sourced in arrogance and premeditated ignorance is incurable.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
(The Nazification of Germany 1933-34)
Hitler was a Junkie and a Vegetarian with a very bad gas problem
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