Hitler was a Catholic that converted to atheistic evolutionarism. Right?

Almost.

Hitler claimed to be a Pagan, not an Atheist.

Although Hitler was raised in a Catholic family, he turned away from Christianity at an early age.

Automatic excommunication happens when Catholics commit certain offensives. This happens as soon as the offense is committed.

Adolf Hitler committed the following offenses resulting in automatic excommunication:

- Apostasy - the formal renunciation of one's religion. Hitler specifically rejected the Catholic Church, as well as Christianity in general. He described himself as "a complete pagan.”

- Heresy - a doctrine in theology, religion, philosophy, or politics at variance with those of the Catholic Church. Nazism is definitely heretical to Christianity.

There was no reason for the Catholic Church to excommunicate Hitler. He did it all by himself.

For Hitler's own words against Christianity, see: http://davnet.org/kevin/articles/table.html

For more information about excommunication, see: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm

And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunicate#Automat...

With love in Christ.

Adolf Hitler, like many other leaders, thought that he had divine backing. Not only that, but the largely Lutheran and Catholic populations of Germany and Austria followed him. They thought that God had sent him to lead.

Hitler signed a concordant with the Vatican in 1933, and paid them about $100 million per year. He was never excommunicated or in any other way officially censured by the Catholic Church. The only high-ranking Catholic Nazi to be excommunicated was Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels — because he married a divorced Protestant woman!

BTW, realizing that evolution is true does not make a person an atheist. The Vatican recognizes evolution, as do many Christians.

Note that the character Moses also believed in in a master race, and killed large numbers of people to further that idea.

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

— Adolf Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941

"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work."

— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 65

"Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it."

— Adolf Hitler, ibid.

"The National Government will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."

— Adolf Hitler, Berlin, 1933, first radio address after coming to power. Here are pictures of Christian Nazism.

"The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society."

— Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichstag, March 1933

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith ... We need believing people."

— Adolf Hitler, April 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933

"The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism..."

— Adolf Hitler in an article in the Völkischer Beobachter, 1929

"I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted."

— Adolf Hitler

"We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out."

— Adolf Hitler

"As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service."

— Adolf Hitler

"The work that Christ started but could not finish, I — Adolf Hitler — will conclude."

— Adolf Hitler, December 1926. Here are more of his quotes on Religion, God, and Christianity.

Atheism doesn't lead a person to hatred and genocide anymore than Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or any other religion. In fact, according to studies, there are far fewer atheists in prison in the US than any sect of Christianity, as a percentage of the jail population versus the general US population. I'm an atheist and I've never committed genocide. Neither has any other atheist that I've met.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. essentially replaced the established religions in their country with the worship of themselves. That is what Kim Jong Il does in North Korea. His deceased father is still viewed as the leader of the country and worshipped like a deity.

If you judge by actions and not words, the average atheist is just as moral as any self-proclaimed Christian, if not moreso.

WRONG!

Hitler believed throughout his life that he was serving Christ, although his view of serving Christ is a view that any Christian can call vile and utterly perverse without invoking the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

The teaching of Darwinian natural selection, and any books dealing with the subject, was banned in Nazi Germany.

No matter what Hitler himself believed he would have accomplished, if "accomplished" is the right word, he would have not been able to do the evil that was done without the active participation of hundreds of thousands of Christians.

There are news photos of Hitler and the nazi party taking communion.

As far as the genocide and ethnic cleansings in Christianity, read the new testament you won't find any.Read the history of the Roman catholic church which is NOT true Christianity but a mixture of paganism, Christianity and Greek philosophy,and you'll find it is under their authority that the inquisitions and crusades took place.

It never really says what he choose to believe later in life. At least from what I have read about him it doesn't. All that I have found was he was raised catholic. We know that doesn't mean anything because he could have believed in the flying spaghetti monster later in life.

I don't think it matters as much as the lesson he taught us. That lesson is that if your belief causes you to kill millions of one group of people, You are doing it wrong.

Hey Goober I was not expressing the point of Christianity, I was telling you the lesson that Hitler has taught all of society. That Lesson is: If you use your religion to kill millions of people, you are doing it wrong.

Actually, no. He was a Catholic all the way. After all, his soldiers had "Gott mit uns" - "God is with us" on their belt buckles.

There are examples of Christians doing things similar to Hitler - read about how Spanish captured South America. Hitler tried to kill all Jews, Spanish tried to kill all Indians - don't see much difference.

Personally, I just like the non-'stached avatar. But when you speak to Manuel and Vernon, their mixed genius would most often create a 'stache that could make even Hitler jealous. Oh wait, Hitler used to be already a jealous ***. But besides...

He might be under the influence of the author whom wrote this book title <<On the Jews and their Lies.in English/Von den Juden und ihren Lügen in German >>. A 65,000-word treatise written by German Reformation leader in 1543. Who was this famous author that had written this book?

What make you a conclusion of his convertion to Atheism?

He was a creationist. His book says so. So you are wrong about him being an evolutionist. Further, in 1942 he told an aide that he was still a Catholic.

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Holy snapping ducksh!t, Matthew got something right! You might have known it was something he could smear the RC church with, though. Typical.