How Catholic was Hitler?

[Amarok]

"Hitler did well in monastery school. He sang in the choir, found High Mass and other ceremonies intoxicating, and idolized priests. Impressed by their power, he at one time considered entering the priesthood." (and painted the madonna above at age 24)




I had an excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal."   Hitler, "Mein Kampf", Vol. 1, Chapter 1

”Whoever would dare to raise a profane hand against that highest image of God among His creatures would sin against the bountiful Creator of this marvel and would collaborate in the expulsion from Paradise.”
  Hitler Mein Kampf, vol. 2, chapter I


"And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God."   Hitler Mein Kampf, p.174
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the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party . . . was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study."
  Hitler, "Mein Kampf", Vol. 1, Chapter 3
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"The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine."
  Hitler, "Mein Kampf" Vol. 1 Chapter 12
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