Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already

[Angrboda]

Hitler did have a history with the Church, but I see it not that he believed, but that he used the beliefs of the Christian majority in Germany to achieve his own goals...

People seem to want to believe that people can have only one primary motivation for their actions, or one overriding purpose. The fact is, people can have multiple, even conflicting motivations for their actions, all operating simultaneously. To insist that Hitler was motivated by supernaturalism or politics or ambition to the exclusion of Christian purposes is to ignore both the complexity of human motivation, as well as the degree to which political motivations as well as supernaturalism are compatible with Christianity. It's said that Hitler was monomaniacal, but he likely was possessed of complex motivations just as anyone else. To suggest that he was pursuing political or other goals to the exclusion of Christian ones is to misunderstand both motivation itself and Christianity. (And no, I don't need another "No True Scotsman" argument, thank you.)

The truth is that Christianity, perhaps excluding your divinely sanctioned variant of it, is quite compatible with, and even consonant with, many motivations which result in palpable evil.

(For those interested, the OSS did a psychological profile of Hitler after the war, and that report is available at Nizkor, . I don't recall it dealing specifically with religion, however.)