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To: conservonator
Wrong on both accounts. A true Christian wouldn't do what he did and by most accounts, he was an occultist if anything. Also, the swastika pre dates the Christian religion by many, many years.

Hitler claimed to be a Christian just like the current members of the over 1000 Christian Churches that exist today. Are Episcopalians no longer Christians because their Church allows homosexuals?

Hitler's introduction to the swastika was at his Church in Austria. It has been a Christian symbol for centuries. The Curch that Hitler attended as a child in Austria still exists and the swastika is still there.

249 posted on 10/16/2003 9:00:53 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Claiming to be and actually being is not the same thing. If he had wanted to adopt Christina symbols than the there are a myriad of more clearly identifiable symbols than the swastika, which is far more associated with pagan than Christian cultures.

Why is it so important for some to cast Hitler as a Christian when he clearly was not?
253 posted on 10/16/2003 9:14:46 AM PDT by conservonator
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
>>Hitler claimed to be a Christian

I haven't read every word he ever said, but the fact that he denounced Jesus as a Jewish plot to destroy the Arian race shows he was not.

You can call yourself whatever you want, but to believe Jesus was a huckster, a malicious liar, and an evil perverter of truth sorta suggests he was not what any reasonable person would call a Christian. More likely, if he ever said such a thing, it was a political lie, made obvious by his other statements.
258 posted on 10/16/2003 9:20:39 AM PDT by dangus
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