Posted on 10/09/2014 7:28:17 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
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Hitler set himself up as god. All power and authority was his. His own alpha and omega. Love, forgiveness, compassion are the antithesis of everything that Hitler and the Nazis stood for. The only reason that Christians follow Jesus is that He is the promised JEWISH Messiah. And Himself a Jew to boot.
NO way Hitler was a Christian.
Looked up 800 A.D. That was the year Charlemagne was crowned ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. It was also the first year that the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian calendar in western Europe.
Wonder why those events got the Nazis so all riled up? They were going all Nordic for Norse mythology & runes & Gothic stuff, but a calendar...?
We can spin this any way we want, forgetting about Hitler, his followers most assuredly identified themselves as Christians. We can say they did not behave like Christians, but that’s a different discussion.
Martin Luther laid the groundwork for Hitler and he pounced on it.
The followers of David Duke thought they were Christian, too. Just because most religious people are good does not mean some are not bad.
Listen to some of his advisors and what they say about the value of human life and other freedoms and you will hear Hitler’s Germany of the 1930’s resound loud and clear.
“Nazi’s National Reich Church Anything But Christian”
Yup, the Nazis worshipped Big Government.
Hitler was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church as a baby, he may have been confirmed when he was older. As an adult, he would go to churches for food when he lived as a tramp in Vienna. Otherwise, he did not attend services in any way. Certainly not once he became Chancellor. His actions and the actions of the government he led make clear Hitler wasn’t a believer. The SS attacked churches both in Germany and in occupied territories. The National Reich Church sought to destroy Christian theology and replace it with National Socialist ideology. The Gestapo arrested and murdered thousands of protestant pastors and church members, to say nothing of Roman priests.
Describes how anything Christian - including carols and even Easter - were perverted to serve the state. They had to sign one of the most German of carols Silent Night in quiet tomes to keep from being overheard.
Way too much like the current situation in DC and Hollywood.
Hitler said Christianity was a "gutter religion", he was bent on replacing Christianity with his own pagan ancestor worshipping ideas. He was most definitely not Christian.
When you get to the point where the National Reich Church is banning the Bible and Christian theology you’ve gotten to the point where the people aren’t believers anymore. The term church may still exist but it has a different meaning. That’s what happened in Germany, which by the time Hitler got into power was largely post-Christian in the first place. That doesn’t mean there were no Christians in Germany but let’s not pretend like the majority of Germans were Christians much less the majority or even sizable minority of National Socialists.
So, just another liberal organization.
The Germans were also expropriating all the Catholic Church properties they could find. They were also replacing nuns in hospitals with their own Nazi Sisters.
Oh yeah, there was never systemic anti-semitism until the 16th century. What a dope.
“The National Reich Church is determined to exterminate irrevocably and by every means the strange and foreign Christian faiths imported into Germany in the ill-omened year 800.”
Yes, the HRE was the First Reich, & the German Empire was the Second Reich. But notice Rosenberg’s hostility to anything Christian. Wonder what he thought about Islam? Ol’ Adolf kinda liked it.
Abysmal ignorance or calculated disinformation.
Now, you want to see a Christian group that resisted the Nazis to a man and to the death, check out the Jehovah's Witnesses, who although not claiming me as a member have earned my utmost respect.
The National Socialists did everything in their power to destroy the Confessing Church, including outlawing it and arresting its leaders.
Did I say Hitler was Christian?
I said his followers self-identified as Christians.
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