What did Adolf Hitler think about Christianity?

Hitler's Table Talk 1941- 1944 His Private Conversations | 1953 | Quotes by Adolf Hitler

[Tailgunner Joe]

"You see, its been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" – Hitler Quoted by Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, pg. 115.

[SuziQ]

Well, so much for that "Hitler was an altar boy, so Catholicism and Christianity must have been responsible for the Holocaust", garbage.

[Dark Skies]

I am going to print this one out...thx, great post.

[HangnJudge]

The Mohammedan religion too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity

Ouch..... that one has got to hurt

[Jeff Head]

Hitler was a insane, pathological killer and tyrant. He was also shrewd.

If alive today, there is no doubt he would have added significantly to his Axis by allying himself with the Radical Islamics and their terrorist ways. At heart...and clearly evidenced by his own actions and programs...it is exactly what he was.

[yarddog]

I remember reading Cornelius Ryan"s book about the fall of Berlin. He mentioned that Gerneral Heinricci (unsure of the spelling) defied Hitler's direct orders and attended church.

The only thing which saved him was he was such a skilled defensive genius that they could not spare him.

[keats5]

Thanks. Much of this is new to me. Do you know if these were public or private statements?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

My regret will have been that I couldn't, like whoever the prophet was, behold the promised land from afar.

Uh, that was Moses, O Fuehrer!

The irony is that, if you take out the references to the Jews and "negroes," a lot of this would work as leftist-secularist talking points.

[FormerACLUmember]

Outstanding post. It is obvious that al Queda is Hitler in a filthy turban.

[skeeter]

It's probable that, as regards religion, we are about to enter an era of tolerance. Everybody will be allowed to seek his own salvation in the way that suits him best.

This sounds familiar.

[bananarepublican23]

Catholicism and Christianity must have been responsible for the Holocaust
I never heard that one. The nazis ended up going after almost everyone. In one concentration camp, a large section was set aside specifically for deadly medical experiments on Catholic Priests. I beleive they gave them all malaria
priests
Nazis were against all religion. They wanted to replace it with worship of the state.

[Dark Skies]

This one is a keeper!

[marty60]

You forgot the Eviros.

[Loyalist]

The irony is that, if you take out the references to the Jews and "negroes," a lot of this would work as leftist-secularist talking points.

You wouldn't even have to extract the references, just coat them in the usual euphemisms about "anti-Zionism", "social justice", "tolerance", "affirmative action", etc. etc.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Shanda]

I have many times seen Nazis and Christians lumped together by various leftist groups.

I never thought it was true but am glad to see it is not only not true but a complete fabrication.

[VOA]

I've heard semiinary professor and pastor R.C. Sproul mention a book he found during
his academic studies in The Netherlands after WWII.

IIRC, the book contained a lot of Hitler's most personal/diary writings
and was titled something like "Hitler: Scourge of Europe".
Sproul says that Hitler even says (in so many words) that he had
"made a deal with the Devil" in his striving for supreme power.

I've looked for the book but not been able to find a copy/translation of it yet.

[ChewedGum]

Here is a post from nearly a year ago on the same issue: Nazi = Christian?

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[TheSpottedOwl]

"Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back 15 centuries."

Yeah, right. Everyone knows it's.....BUSH'S FAULT!

Hitler had enough firing brain cells left in his head to realize that his agenda was diametrically opposed to Christianity. His twisted brain then decides that Christianity is the problem, not him. And of course he blames the Jews. If it wasn't so sick, I'd laugh.

[VOA]

The accussation that Hitler and Germany were a huge Christian crusade is
a common saw uttered by certain groups.

That accussation simply reflects an "agenda" and/or deep ignorance in the speaker.

At the same time...I will understand some of the groups that suffered the most
during the war for having harsh feelings about "Christianity". The churches and
too many individual Christians folded and failed the moral tests of the time.
(I'm not being judgemental...I fear I might have also done the same
expedient, safe and very wrong things if I'd been in their shoes.)