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Adolf Hitler was born a Catholic and remained a Christian till death. Why do Christians try to suppress that?

Update:

As Hitler proclaimed in Mein Kampf, "Therefore, I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's Work."

Could this be why Christians try to supress this fact? Hitler's words are echoed in the words of many Christian leaders throughout the ages. The crusades. The fight against equal rights for homosexuals. The fight against equal rights for blacks and women in the past. The bigotry against Muslims now.

Christians all claim to be doing the lords work. Very few of them actually are.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    what facts do you have that suggests the christians are supressing that knowledge??

    I've known that piece of truth since I was like 7, it's not like anyone is trying to keep it behinds closed doors, that information is already out into the public, I mean are people constantly stating otherwise?? Can you blame them for not bringing that fact up very often?? I mean what do you want the christains to do?? embrace hitler and bow down at his feet?? I don't see any other outcome for this sort of situation other than the way it currently is.....

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Certainly Hitler had some sort of belief in a god but it was formed by his own imagination. I believe there is some evidence that he attended the Catholic Church as a child. Somewhere along the way he developed a hatred for religion and especially the Jewish and Catholic religion. In his extermination camps he murdered 6 million Jews and 5 million Catholics.During His reign he martyres 80% of all priests in Nazi occupied Europe. His actions reveal that he was definitely NOT Catholic. God bless! In Christ Fr. Joseph

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What would possess you to make such an outlandish statement? Present some credible facts from a LEGITIMATE source and not those stupid stormfront.com websites, either.

    FACT: Hitler rejected Christianity because he claimed it corrupted the original ideas that he claimed Jesus had. In fact, Hitler went so far as come up with the seriously twisted idea that Jesus Christ was an Aryan opponent of the Jews.

    So by ALL definitions, Hitler was NOT a Christian...far from it!

    Some people actually believe Hitler was part Jewish. Yet another urban legend.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Having a title and being something are two different things. The are things that have to be done on a regular basis in the Catholic Church to be in good standing. To my knowledge Hitler did none of them after entering adulthood. In private he had very little good to say about the Church or any form of Christianity. Your question is an attempt to suppress that.

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  • Daver
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    1 decade ago

    Hitler was raised by Catholic parents, but this does not mean Hitler was a Catholic. Given Hitler's beliefs, words, and actions, Hitler was most obviously not a Catholic.

    If you wish to be taken seriously, don't try to suggest Hitler remained Catholic until his death. Every reasonable person knows, by virtue of Hitler's beliefs, words, and actions, your claim is a lie.

  • 1 decade ago

    Adolf Hitler was brought up as a Roman Catholic. According to historian Bradley F. Smith, Hitler's father, though nominally a Catholic, was a freethinker,[1] while his mother was a practicing Catholic.[2] According to historian Michael Rissmann young Adolf was influenced in school by Pan-Germanism and began to reject the Church and Catholicism, receiving Confirmation only unwillingly. A boyhood friend reports that after Hitler had left home, he never attended Mass or received the Sacraments.[3] Georg Ritter von Schönerer's writings and the written legacy of his Pan-German Away from Rome! movement, which agitated against the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the 19th century, may have influenced the young Adolf Hitler.[4]

    Footnotes:

    1) ^ "Closely related to his support of education was his tolerant skepticism concerning religion. He looked upon religion as a series of conventions and as a crutch for human weakness, but, like most of his neighbors, he insisted that the women of his household fulfill all religious obligations. He restricted his own participation to donning his uniform to take his proper place in festivals and processions. As he grew older Alois shifted from relative passivity in his attitude toward the power and influence of the institutional Church to a firm opposition to "clericalism," especially when the position of the Church came into conflict with his views on education." - Bradley F. Smith: Adolf Hitler: His Family, Childhood and Youth Stanford/California, 1967 p. 27

    2) Historian Bradley F. Smith: "Alois insisted she attend regularly as an expression of his belief that the woman's place was in the kitchen and in church....Happily, Klara really enjoyed attending services and was completely devoted to the faith and teachings of Catholicism, so her husband's requirements worked to her advantage. "Bradley F. Smith: Adolf Hitler: His Family, Childhood and Youth Stanford/California, 1967 p. 42

    3) Michael Rissmann, Hitlers Gott. Vorsehungsglaube und Sendungsbewußtsein des deutschen Diktators, Zürich München: Pendo, 2001, p. 94-96 ISBN 3-85842-421-8. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (sections 2041–2043) defines Mass attendance on Sundays and Holy Days as the "First Precept of the Church", an absolute minimum requirement.

    4) Los-von-Rom-Bewegung Von Schönerer influenced Austrian German nationalists deeply according to historians.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religi...

    The second largest religious group killed in the holocaust were Catholics. Why do anti-religionists suppress that?

  • 1 decade ago

    Although Hitler was in fact Catholic, very little in his life demonstrated any real conviction on his part. I do not deny that he was a Catholic, at least by indoctrination, but I sincerely doubt that he was ever truly a Christian.

  • 1 decade ago

    It is true that Hitler was catholic, yet he was not a christian.

    I do not believe anyone who tortures and murders others because they refuse to believe as you do is doing the will of God. And that includes all religions.

    Jesus said to love our enemies. When someone does something evil to you, ask God to forgive them and bless them.

    We must remember the words of our Lord as he hung on the cross after being ridiculed, punched, spit on, slapped, whipped, kicked, and a crown of thorns placed upon his head.

    He said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If a duck walked on all fours wouldn't it make you wonder if it really was a duck? Obviously Hitler didn't act like a christian so why assume that he was....Because he had some religious tradition he lived by?

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you trying to say Hitler killed Gods people in the name of Christianity or in the name of God?, next you're going to say that Haman in the bible book of Esther was also a Christian who also tried to kill Gods people (the Jews).

    Esther 7:1-6

    Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.” 3 Then Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; 4 for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?” 6 Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

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