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Hitler Was Not An Atheist »

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History is being distorted by many preachers and politicians. Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religio-political institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church. In his day, hatred of Jews was the norm

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LOCKNLOAD
June 9, 2007, 8:53 a.m.
...After seeing a real life Hitler in my time, he got his just-desserts with his Third Reich going down in flames; whatever, his views on religion or a living diety...is no longer important...Hitler and his dogma of German Nazism is dead!!
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CatholicRedneck
June 9, 2007, 8:55 a.m.
What a crock. If Hitler was only expressing his Catholicism by killing millions of Jews, one is left to wonder why there were still millions of Jews left after centuries of the Church's rule. Strange how the holocaust happened only after the Church was weak. *sigh* But then, any club will work for those who hate the one, true Church.
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infidell2space
June 9, 2007, 9:15 a.m.
This is a rebuttal to that list of fabricated, false quotes trying to make out Hitler as an Atheist. So many (supposed) Christians have lied, tortured, murdered and waged war in the name of religion, god, Christ and faith (and/or/any/all) that at this point anything said about religion or atheism by someone who claims to be a Christian should be automatically doubted until it can be verified. Excerpt from a letter John Adams wrote to John Taylor "What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine."
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infidell2space
June 9, 2007, 9:30 a.m.

The following link is a book written during WW 2 detailing Hitler's religious belief's and Christianity's roll in the holocaust.
https://lightning.he.net/~atheists/catalogue/sh...
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787] What happens if the bible is the "test" and on judgment day you stand before god accused of willful ignorance for believing on faith in a book that tells stories of unicorns, talking animals, fiery flying serpents and describes god as a vicious, psychopathic baby killer? What will you say in your defence on that fateful day?
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HannibalBarca
June 9, 2007, 10:20 a.m.
Using this mans logic I guess that Rev. Jones of Jonestown was a Christian also.
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CatholicRedneck
June 9, 2007, 10:48 a.m.
If the highest pursuit of religion is to be found in freedom of conscience then ultimately we each become our own god. Having tried that as a young man, I decided I needed the real God and not some melange of ideas concocted by my limited mind.
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cantfoolme
June 9, 2007, 2:21 p.m.
No but the gospels were cherry picked by the early church and those locked up in the vatican deserve just as much exposure.
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cherev
June 10, 2007, 7 a.m.
I have to wonder how true this story is and why it's coming out now? Hitler was called an athiest for decades without any disagreement from the atheists. All of a sudden, they're cherry-picking instances of Hitler's religious affiliation?
I'm no fan of the Church and it is true that millions of religious Catholics participated in the extermination of the Jews, but I'm not convinced that Hitler believed in G-D just because he was born and raised within Christianity.
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Albmore
June 11, 2007, 7:53 a.m.
Lets get a few things straight here first Hitler although claiming to be Catholic only reason is because 90 percent of Bavaria where he came from is Catholic. He himself only used religion to obtain his own personal goals.Also the word Catholic does not only refer to the Catholic Church which the Roman Catholic church likes to believe , but to the body of believers in Christ. The first christian churches were also not in Rome. Pauls first travels took him into Syria. That images of Mary are carried and prayed to are also against what the bible states. Catholics also practice a form of re- incarnation like that of the Buddist where they believe every Pope after Peter carries his athority. Jesus is the conerstone on which the Christian religions lay and not Peter. Nor does the bible tell us in any part that One man will lead the church. No Lutherns will not go to hell because they are Luthern. One must be born agian to go to heaven. Not a Catholic.
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Endoscopy
Jan. 14, 2008, 11:11 p.m.
The Church created creeds to separate the reals Christians from those who just say they are. One of the first is the Nicene creed. Hitler while raised in the Catholic Church left it never to return after he was on his own. He was into the occult in fact getting his Aryan race idea from them. This made him definitely not a Christian.
This story makes a big deal of what was on the belt buckle of the German soldier. They had the same thing in WW1. It just carried down through history.