Was Whoopi Goldberg Right that Hitler Was a Christian?: A Historical Analysis

Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2015 | Richard Weikhart

[Kaslin]

Please note that Hitler was Austrian, not German.

[bert]

also note that Whoopi is black not white

[MayflowerMadam]

Well, there’s big-C “Christian”, and little-C “Christian”. Maybe he was a Christian (not Jewish, Muslim, etc.), but he certainly wasn’t a Christian (Christ-like - born again).

[MayflowerMadam]

Well, I see that auto-correct changed my lower-case c to upper case c a couple of times. Damn computers trying to think for me!!

[xp38]

Exactly. One could say the same about Stalin. His mother sent him on a scholarship to an Orthodox seminary but Stalin says he became an athiest in his first year there.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I wasn’t saying it was Christian reasoning, but that the majority of allied soldiers where Christian. My point is that it wasn’t Christian reasoning that was supporting Hitler, or being used by Hitler as a tool. On the other hand, Islam is being used as the reason for the existence of ISIS, and a fair percentage of Muslims support the concept. This is the problem, and this is the difference - and why Whoopi’s comments are not germane. Plus, the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini met with Hitler to extend the anti-Jewish program.

[Retain Mike]

Thanks.

[samtheman]

Liberals lie. That is what they do. They lie about everything. Past. Present. Future.

[Cronos]

Hitler saw the Austrians as part of the Germanic peoples -- which they are. The only reasons Austria is not part of Germany are:

1. Prussia unified the various Germanic nations (Swabia, Saxony, Bayern etc.) and not the Habsburgs
2. At the end of WWI, the Austrians wanted to join with Germany but the allies did not allow it.

Germanic peoples include Austrians and Dutch and northern Swiss and indeed the Scandinavians with common mythologies which Hitler wanted to revive

[RipSawyer]

It is hardly surprising that some of the same people who believe that Obama is a Christian would believe that Hitler was a Christian.

[Cronos]

Sorry Hugin, but that's only partly true and the rest of PC embellishment

Christian European countries conquered most of the world, but only the Spanish and the Portuguese made much effort to bring people to Christianity.

In terms of "murdered a lot of people" -- remember that the majority of people killed in the Americas and Australia were due to diseases brought over inadvertently by the explorers

[lentulusgracchus]

Which kind of sums it all up as far as Hitler's "Christianity" is concerned.

There's a fat coda in the form of hocus-pocus paganism, or should I call it "pseudopaganism"? All that tomb-of-Barbarossa stuff, torchlit ceremonies, and SS-Ahnenerben bullswoggle about a Nazi Proto-German Urheimat around the Externsteine and laughable "Nazi knights" from the Bronze Age, wearing swastikas on their 14th- and 15th-century steel plate-armor. <howling laughter>

Anyway, all this flummery was a big chunk of inside-the-Beltway Nazism back in the day, n/w/s that supposedly one could not enlist in the SS unless one were a professing Christian; atheists were banned.