Anyone who knows very many Catholics knows that there are wiiiiiiiiiiiiidely varying levels of belief among those who claim the title.
Most of them are effectively as agnostic as anyone here, except on certain holidays where they "have to" attend mass, and when it comes to getting mad when someone says something bad about the home sports team religion.
Just like Stalin, and frankly like most American politicians today, Hitler was a ruthless power-monger willing to use the common belief of the German people (Catholicism) to his advantage by claiming to be one of them. A closer reading of his actual life-story, including numerous psychological evaluations of his life done during and after the war, shows that he took kernels of many elements of his upbringing to combine into a weird amalgamation of beliefs that drove his adult behavior. One of the major influences was Catholicism, but he also had a serious fetish for "ancient Germany" pagan lore, including a mistaken belief that the ancient Germans and Scandinavians were the Aryan "noble people" of the Vedas, who had once ruled a vast empire based on white power. He was taking more drugs in a given day than an average street dealer carries, including meth, administered by his personal quack physician, and was essentially batshit insane.
That's why it's too complicated an issue to say "Hitler is a Catholic", because just like Stalin is not a fair representation of our ideologies, Hitler is not a fair representation of modern-day Catholics. Those two men are murderous, power-hungry psychopaths, and both had some very strange ideas we would find merely laughable today, if not for the body-count behind them.
Most of them are effectively as agnostic as anyone here, except on certain holidays where they "have to" attend mass, and when it comes to getting mad when someone says something bad about the home sports team religion.
Just like Stalin, and frankly like most American politicians today, Hitler was a ruthless power-monger willing to use the common belief of the German people (Catholicism) to his advantage by claiming to be one of them. A closer reading of his actual life-story, including numerous psychological evaluations of his life done during and after the war, shows that he took kernels of many elements of his upbringing to combine into a weird amalgamation of beliefs that drove his adult behavior. One of the major influences was Catholicism, but he also had a serious fetish for "ancient Germany" pagan lore, including a mistaken belief that the ancient Germans and Scandinavians were the Aryan "noble people" of the Vedas, who had once ruled a vast empire based on white power. He was taking more drugs in a given day than an average street dealer carries, including meth, administered by his personal quack physician, and was essentially batshit insane.
That's why it's too complicated an issue to say "Hitler is a Catholic", because just like Stalin is not a fair representation of our ideologies, Hitler is not a fair representation of modern-day Catholics. Those two men are murderous, power-hungry psychopaths, and both had some very strange ideas we would find merely laughable today, if not for the body-count behind them.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
