[Hajman]

Right on the first, mostly wrong on the second. Hitler's religion drove him to all the bullcrap he pulled. But his religion is quite unlike anything we have today, apart from a few individuals in selected nuthouses. Hitler's religion was a mishmash of Christian beliefs (he was convinced of the hand of Providence) and racial worship and spiritualism and a great big dollop of self-worship. "Hitlerism" is about the best descriptor of Hitler's religion.

Hitler's religion was based in the Master Race theory, and didn't include spiritualism. Hitler may have taken different concepts from religion (for example, if he did believe in the hand of Providence). However, Hitler mutilated these concepts rather harshly. His version of the concept matches the original version as well as a square block in a round hole. You might say that the concept was taken from a certain religion, however, what you can't say is that Hitler's beliefs are part that religion, because once the concept is altered as much as Hitler did to it, it can no longer be considered part of the original religion. Hitler's religion has as much relation to Christianity as your beliefs have to the Islamic because you both believe people who walk, talk, think and breath are alive. Hitler's was a warped religion, and to compare it to Christianity is to ignore this (if certain Hitler beliefs were even comparable to Christian beliefs, which I haven't seen evidence of yet).

-The Hajman-

[Southern Federalist]

Hitler's talk of the "hand of Providence" is not necessarily a borrowing from Christianity. Ever since the Enlightenment, the term "Providence" has been used to invoke a vague religious perspective by those who are not comfortable talking about "God."

I have read that Hitler spoke of having a sort of moment of destiny in the military hospital after WWI when he realized that "Providence" was calling him to rid the world of the Jewish bacilli. I don't think Christians should be in any doubt about who he was really hearing from.