Was Hitler a Christian? [Dinesh D'Souza rebuts atheist canard]

Townhall ^ | November 5, 2007 | Dinesh D'Souza

[drpix]

“CLUELESS!”

[Between the Lines]

CLUELESS

Obviously you sir, are a master debater. I am no match for your superior debating skill. So I must admit defeat and give way to your unmatched intellect. /sarcasm

[tumblindice]

“Frizbeetarian”, that’s great! lol

“Horrors of War”, a recent DVD release: in the waning years of WWII Nazi scientists create bullet-resistant zombies who, against the plan, kill and eat anyone who gets in their way.
Featuring an American werewolf. Great battle scenes, a rape scene, lots of blood. R for violence. Photo of Hitler. Not in church.
Two snaps!
Nothing really to do with the topic, but I didn’t like the way things were going . . .

[Peter Libra]

A remarkable book on Hitler's youth was The Young Hitler I knew. Author; August Kubizek.

The two young men shared a room, experiencing the harsh poverty for indigent men, in Vienna,Austria. It is many years since I read Kubizek's book. One passage stands out. Whether anecdotal or personal experience by Kubizek, he mentioned Hitler and the Catholic Church.

It was said that Hitler plagued the life out of a Catholic priest. His sardonic questioning and reposts, forced the priest to drive him off.

Some Christian.

[Charles Martel]

In short, Hitler despised Christianity as a weakling Jewish influence Religion, but he admired Islam and bemoaned the fact the Islam did not conquer all of Europe in the 8th century.

Fascinating... I'd never seen those quotes before. As if the Nazis didn't have bloody enough ambitions, they actually fantasized about controlling Islam as well.

Their mistake, of course, is in believing that anything like an industrialized Islamic Germany would've arisen between 732 and, say, 1930.

I love the irony, too, in the condemnation of my namesake for his military victory at Tours. The Carolingian Franks were probably more Germanic, overall, than the people of the Third Reich - and those 8th century Franks correctly identified the enemy.

Hitler's rabid hatred of the Jews and the Nazi plans and efforts aimed at exterminating those people make a lot more sense when one views the Nazis as the frustrated jihadists that they really were, down deep inside.

[JimSEA]

Hitler was born Catholic just as Stalin was born into the Russian Orthodox Church and Mao was raised as a Buddhist. These facts prove nothing as many people reject their religious upbringing, as these three men did.

Had any of them understood and accepted even a minimal amount of the religious teachings they were born into, world history would likely not have record any of their actions. Others would have taken their places as the godless scourge of the National Socialist and Communist would have found others, likely just as evil.

[LS]

Well, actually then we disagree. I have a friend who did an elaborate examination of Hitler’s “counter-Judaism,” and it’s interesting how MUCH of the Bible he knew, and inverted. His inversions were clever (”volk, reich, fuhrer” instead of “Father, Son, Holy Spirit”), need for the “purification of the blood,” a similar phrase as the Jews themselves used in referring to their need to spill blood for the remittance of sin; and so on. So I wouldn’t doubt Hitler knew EXACTLY the context he wanted to use “heil” in.

[Deb]

Sounds great. Zombies and Nazis...the only villians allowed in Hollywood these days.

[George W. Bush]

This is a great article, rebutting the atheist slurs against traditional religious values as a source of genocide.

This is Dinesh's best writing in some time, I think.

Of course, I might just like it because I made an extended post on genocidal utopian states in the Twentieth the last month. But Dinesh makes it stick to your ribs!

[jwalsh07]

Dinesh is addressing the evangelical atheists who continue to spew this nonsense and it's about time somebody did.

July 6, 1945 — "The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches"

[cookcounty]

"Hitler’s leading advisers like Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich and Bormann were atheists who hated religion and sought to eradicate its influence in Germany."

I am always amused by ignorant atheists who prattle on about the brutality of "religious wars," when the atheists of the last century have slaughtered vastly more innocents than the popes and preachers could ever possibly imagine.

[patriciaruth]

BOOKMARK! THANKS!!!

[patriciaruth]

Are Hitler's sins any greater than my sins?

Let's just say that I'd much rather have YOU for a neighbor.

[hinckley buzzard]

Clinton once opined in his dumb-ass ignorant hillbilly way that "after all Hitler was a twisted sort of Christian."

The truth is that Hitler had a messianic complex and saw the Christian God as a model for himself. He had a project going on with Goebbels to re-write the Bible as a prophecy of the Third Reich as the Kingdom of God, with himself as the new Savior. The film "Triumph of the Will" was intended to set the stage for this new "religion" of das Volk.

[Leapofaith]

From everything that I have learned Hitler was born a Catholic, christened, and confirmed. Later he rejected all religion and subscribe to what passed for science. He even said he did not believe in God but believed is science. He believed very much in Darwinism -— hence the “super race”.

This is what I was taught anyway. So, no he was not a Christian of any stripe.