>Actually, Brady, Hitler was a very devout Christian, according to his own writings and a lot of the propaganda used by the Nazis.
>Here we go with the Hitler as a godless atheist myth. Let the idiot show begin.
Jacques ad hominem aside:
Wikipedia: "Hitler's private statements are more clear. There are negative statements about Christianity reported by Hitler's intimates, Goebbels, Speer, and Bormann.[17] Joseph Goebbels, for example, notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay." Albert Speer reports a similar statement: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[18] In the Hossbach Memorandum Hitler is recorded as saying that "only the disintegrating effect of Christianity, and the symptoms of age" were responsible for the demise of the Roman empire.[19] In 1941, Hitler praised an anti-Christian tract from 362CE, Julian's Against the Galileans, saying "I really hadn't known how clearly a man like Julian had judged Christians and Christianity, one must read this..."[20] He was reported to say that religion should die on its own accord.[21]
Drawing on higher criticism and some branches of theologically liberal Protestantism, Hitler advocated Positive Christianity, traditional Christianity purged of everything that he found objectionable. Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself,[22] but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus, whom Hitler regarded as an Aryan opponent of the Jews.[23]"
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Any person who claims to be a Christian, and says that Jesus was Aryan, and opposed the Jews, is not a Christian by any definition outside their own and other hate-groups. Even groups commonly considered cults by the mainstream Christian church (jehovah's witnesses, etc.) will tell you that these ideas are lies made up to support propaganda.
>This is the kind of self righteous ignorance that begets acts such as the holocaust.
Maybe we have different history books. Was Hitler a fundamentalist Christian? Oh wait, no, he was a godless man. Maybe having no god is what begets acts such as the holocaust (see what I did there? I used the same irrational argument you did).
Lots of people have said lots of crazy things over the years. Just because you can find 100 quotes that are nonsensical does not prove anything.
As a Christian I have generally liked this page. It is clean, interesting, and funny. I'm disappointed that the authors have posted a blatantly prejudicial post such as this just for a few laughs.
OK, so then check the sources it cites. There are plenty of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_beliefs
i really don't know why you are challenging someone who agrees with your bottom line of this post being stupid.
>Here we go with the Hitler as a godless atheist myth. Let the idiot show begin.
Jacques ad hominem aside:
Wikipedia:
"Hitler's private statements are more clear. There are negative statements about Christianity reported by Hitler's intimates, Goebbels, Speer, and Bormann.[17] Joseph Goebbels, for example, notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay." Albert Speer reports a similar statement: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[18] In the Hossbach Memorandum Hitler is recorded as saying that "only the disintegrating effect of Christianity, and the symptoms of age" were responsible for the demise of the Roman empire.[19] In 1941, Hitler praised an anti-Christian tract from 362CE, Julian's Against the Galileans, saying "I really hadn't known how clearly a man like Julian had judged Christians and Christianity, one must read this..."[20] He was reported to say that religion should die on its own accord.[21]
Drawing on higher criticism and some branches of theologically liberal Protestantism, Hitler advocated Positive Christianity, traditional Christianity purged of everything that he found objectionable. Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself,[22] but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus, whom Hitler regarded as an Aryan opponent of the Jews.[23]"
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Any person who claims to be a Christian, and says that Jesus was Aryan, and opposed the Jews, is not a Christian by any definition outside their own and other hate-groups. Even groups commonly considered cults by the mainstream Christian church (jehovah's witnesses, etc.) will tell you that these ideas are lies made up to support propaganda.
Maybe we have different history books. Was Hitler a fundamentalist Christian? Oh wait, no, he was a godless man. Maybe having no god is what begets acts such as the holocaust (see what I did there? I used the same irrational argument you did).
Lots of people have said lots of crazy things over the years. Just because you can find 100 quotes that are nonsensical does not prove anything.
As a Christian I have generally liked this page. It is clean, interesting, and funny. I'm disappointed that the authors have posted a blatantly prejudicial post such as this just for a few laughs.