Why do some theists bring up Adolf Hitler when discussing atheism?

[Rev. Rye]

It has always baffled me, why some theists bring up the name of Adolf Hilter when debating with atheists.

Ive been watching theist/atheist debates on UTube for a while now and see this quite alot, so I desided to find out for myself.

It's Called Argumentum ad Hitlerum. It really seems to do a lot to discredit the argument of your opponent

As a avid reader of anything to do with World War II, I desided to read Mein Kampf, and found out that he was a christian, a bitter twisted power hungry jew hater, but still a christian.

Well, Hitler's actual religion is up for legitimate debate. He was most likely a Roman Catholic when he wrote Mein Kampf, but I've heard that by the time the Final Solution was getting started, he was merely just another agnostic politician using religion to get the proles riled up. As Seneca is believed to have said, "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."

Oh by the way, it was the most boring book I have ever read.

Yes. Nazi Germany and the Holocaust are fascinating subjects [If you want to read more, Richard Evans, Ian Kershaw, Albert Speer, and, to an extent, William Shirer have created some of the best writing on the subject], but is founded on one of the most frustratingly unreadable tomes in the English Language. Hitler was an orator, not a writer. There is really only one way to read it: take the rage inducing drug of your choice (PCP or cocaine should do fine), and shout it to thousands of unfocused students. I think it's safe to say that even if I somehow didn't know about the Holocaust or didn't think that killing 6 million Jews and likely as many goyim was wrong, I'd still hate him with a passion because of that book's unreadability. It makes Stephenie Meyers seem like Papa Hemingway in comparison.