RE: Was Hitler a Christian?
April 12, 2016 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2016 at 4:47 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
Most scholars agree that Hitler came to reject the Christianity of his upbringing, partially because his father was a secularist. Hitler also claimed on numerous occasions that he was raised to power by divine providence, so it's unlikely he was an outright atheist, though of course he could have been making his proclamations about being Catholic and being providentially chosen just to solidify his powerbase and elevate his mythos. As I said, exactly what you'd expect of a psychopath with power.
The problem also exists that we're talking about a person whose views morphed over time, to become increasingly hostile to the church toward the end. In his early speeches, he uses Christian language and concepts...by the end, some of the diaries/memoirs of his officers indicate that he was outright hostile to Christianity, and thought it needed to be subjugated.
[Albert] Speer wrote after the war that Hitler had "no real attachment" to Catholicism, but that he never formally left the Church. [Historian Laurence] Rees concludes that "Hitler's relationship in public to Christianity—indeed his relationship to religion in general—was opportunistic. There is no evidence that Hitler himself, in his personal life, ever expressed any individual belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church". [...] [Historian] Julian Baggini writes that Hitler's Germany was not a "straightforwardly atheist state," but one which "sacrilized" notions of blood and nation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_...olf_Hitler
The problem also exists that we're talking about a person whose views morphed over time, to become increasingly hostile to the church toward the end. In his early speeches, he uses Christian language and concepts...by the end, some of the diaries/memoirs of his officers indicate that he was outright hostile to Christianity, and thought it needed to be subjugated.
[Albert] Speer wrote after the war that Hitler had "no real attachment" to Catholicism, but that he never formally left the Church. [Historian Laurence] Rees concludes that "Hitler's relationship in public to Christianity—indeed his relationship to religion in general—was opportunistic. There is no evidence that Hitler himself, in his personal life, ever expressed any individual belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church". [...] [Historian] Julian Baggini writes that Hitler's Germany was not a "straightforwardly atheist state," but one which "sacrilized" notions of blood and nation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_...olf_Hitler
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.
