(August 10, 2015 at 3:37 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Kingpin, that's utter bullshit they fed you. http://atheism.about.com/od/adolfhitlern...rJesus.htm
This second link provides many quotes from mein kempf showing that he was a ardent follower of Jesus through a protestant denomination and often was involved social activity with Christian groups.
Hitler himself says in Mein Kampf that his public statements should be understood as propaganda that bears no relation to the truth but is designed to sway the masses.
The Nazi idea of an Aryan Christ who uses the sword to cleanse the earth of the Jews was obviously a radical departure from the traditional Christian understanding and was condemned as such by Pope Pius XI at the time. Moreover, Hitler's anti-Semitism was not religious, it was racial.
In his multi-volume history of the Third Reich, historian Richard Evans writes that "the Nazis regarded the churches as the strongest and toughest reservoirs of ideological opposition to the principles they believed in." Once Hitler and the Nazis came to power, they launched a ruthless drive to subdue and weaken the Christian churches in Germany."
Even Christopher Hitchens, who was well versed in Christian atrocities, refers to Hitler as a pagan polytheist. This is of course to push him in to the religious camp, but my point is I don't see how it can be labeled as Christian. Just because something is done in the name of something, does not mean that it is.
I would bring up Hitler's Table Talk but that seems to have as much scrutiny around it as The Bible. In that, Hitler seems VERY anti-Christian and VERY anti-religious, but people attacking the source and translations etc of that text.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
