what religon did hitler have?
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Adolf Hitler was raised as a Roman Catholic by his parents, as was customary where he grew up. His father, though nominally a Catholic, was a freethinker, his mother a practising Catholic. Young Adolf was baptized, served as an altar boy, and received the sacraments. Influenced by pan-german nationalism and social darwinism, he began to reject the Church and Catholicism as an adolescent, according to his own accounts. After he had left home, he stopped attending mass and receiving sacraments altogether, thereby ceasing to be a practising Catholic.[5]\n\nHitler's religious beliefs changed over the years and as they have to be gathered from his numerous public and private statements, which present a discrepant picture, they will remain ambiguous. In public statements, Hitler frequently spoke positively about the Christian heritage of German culture and his own Christianity, which appealed to deeply-rooted sentiments within the electorate[6]. Moreover, Hitler never formally or publicly left the church[7]. However, Hitler’s private statements were more mixed. There are numerous alleged negative statements about Christianity and the Church reported by Hitler’s intimates, e.g. Goebbels or Speer.[8].\n\nThough Hitler rejected traditional Christianity in general, he was far from irreligious. Joseph Goebbels, for example, notes in a diary entry in 1939: “The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay.” \n\n...\n\nIn contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism or neo-paganism and even ridiculed such beliefs in private. Drawing on Higher Criticism and some branches of theologically liberal Protestantism, Hitler advocated what he termed Positive Christianity, purged of everything that Hitler found objectionable. Hitler never demoted Jesus himself, but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus[10], who was reinvented as an Aryan opponent of the Jews. In 1927 he said: "My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter."[11] Hitler did not believe in a "remote, rationalist divinity" but "in one providential, active, deity."[12]. In Hitler's belief this god had created the world, in which different races fought each other for survival along social darwinist lines. He often referred to "providence" guarding and guiding the "Aryan race", supposedly the bearer of civilisation, in its fight against the Jews, supposedly the enemies of all civilisation. Ultimately, he considered himself a Messiah-like saviour of the German people.\n\nAs the Protestant Church was more open to such reinterpretations, Hitler demonstrated a preference for Protestantism over Catholicism.[13] His views were supported by the German Christians movement, but rejected by the Confessing Church. According to Steigmann-Gall, Hitler felt "remorse that the churches had failed to back him and his movement as he had hoped."[14], stating according to Albert Speer: "Through me the Protestant Church could become the established church, as in England”\n\nDespite his rejection of the Catholic Church, Hitler admired the pomp of Catholic ritual and the hierarchical organisation of the clergy. Later, he drew on these elements, organizing his party along hierarchical lines and including liturgical forms into events or using phraseology taken from hymns. Because of these liturgical elements, Hitler's Messiah-like status and the ideology's all-encompassing nature, the Nazi movement is sometimes termed a "political religion".
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No, it is not OK. Being a Nazi wasn't a religion. It was a self-serving belief.
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We need faith, not religion. Faith leads us to be better people, help others, find purpose in life, etc.\n\nReligion is what men kill each other over.\n\n...and by the way, Hitler was Catholic.
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Hitler was crazy and I bet he didn't even know he was partially Jewish. He needed the support of Germany, so he needed to blame a weak part of the population. He chose Jews because they were not Christian, which the majority of Germans were. They did not fit the regualar German "LOOK" and he felt there was room for discrimination. I am not saying the Jews are weak, and it was a bad move on Adolf Hitler's part. Later during the Liberation, they had to evecuate dozens of overcrowded camps and try to kill everyone without klling the soilders they would need later. Hitler had taken it too far and evacuation was a nusiance. He did it because of various diseases inside him, and because he was a wrongly prejudiced man. He was also against those in wheelchairs, African Americans, homosexuals, bisexuals, gypsies, and partially woman  and other minorities in his point of view.
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Hitler. Because he only had one testicle.
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Blind Faith- Like What Nazi Germany Thought of Hitler!
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Hitler, as history has shown.\n\nJesus was a very liberal, open-minded guy. It's his modern day, rabid followers who have twisted his message & seek to restrict personal freedoms. \n\nIn all likelihood, Jesus would be dumb-founded by what's been done in His name.
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He was Catholic. \nIn 1936, the Reich Church was created but this still followed Catholicism. This did not have the Christian cross as its symbol but the swastika. The Bible was replaced by "Mein Kampf" which was placed on the altar. By it was a sword. Only invited Nazis were allowed to give sermons in a Reich Church.
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When the Jews Turned down Christ..it was prophesied that they would be scattered around the world and In the last days They would be driven back together again. Hitler,Mussolini,and Stalin were doing what God said He would do. Otherwords in plain english, God was using Hilter to fulfill his word!
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There was  no connection of islam  with hitler. what hitler did was his personal  act.\n\n Muslims were the best in treating jews but i guess world history never highlight this thing. When Hazrat Omer(islamic Caliph) came to  Israel in 623 AD and conquerd it and took it back from Chriatain who had thrown jews out of that place after Jesus incidence he called jews  back to the place. and In 1150 AD or 1050 AD when Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi conquered that place he didn't throw them out but allowed to live there according to their wish.but that  were christains who had expelled jews twice from Isreal.this is what i know about this all.
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Yes Hitler was a horrible dictator in Germany . Who caused so much death and fear .
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Hitler stood againtist Jesus at every point of life. the taste for power is not what the bible teaches. it is a thrist for Jesus Christ and following Him. let see Jesus taught the most powerful were those that served. today many people ignore the bible to follow their own earthly lust.
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Excellent question.  People seem to be more quick to point out the flaws in others beliefs than acknowledge their own.\n\nStalin WAS athiest.  To claim otherwise is ridiculous.  How can the head of what was an officially athiest state (and it was despite what others posted) be theist?\nAlthough Hitler was born Catholic, his beliefs were definately not Christian (ie: Christ was Aryan and fought the Jews; Aryan's evolved from Adam and Eve, and everyone else evolved naturally, etc...).  He may not have been athiest, but he certainly wasn't Christian.  Jadwiga Biskupska, who wrote "Hitler & Triumph of the Will: A Nazi Religion in the Catholic Style" in Undergraduate Quarterly, September/November 2004, even states: "...he ridicules the teachings of Church fathers and the practice of the Catholic faith... he detested the doctrines, of the Roman Church... Institutionalized religion, in Hitler's view, was a waning phenomenon...".
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Hitler was incredibly smart but also incredibly narrow minded, and he underestimated the will of people to survive. He thought that there was one supreme race, and didn't see that we as people as a whole have incredible will to survive against the worst odds. Its a human trait, not a racial one.\nWhat brought Hitler down was his inability to see that.\nAlso I don't look at him as an idiot, he was just another man who didn't have the right role models growing up and didn't know any better. I mean he had a brilliant mind, he just chose to use his powers for evil instead of good.
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Well, just to help you a little here, Hitler did not believe in Jesus.  He felt Christianity was weak and didn't want his power being challenged by religious authorities.  (If the basis of your question is, "Is it alright to kill those who don't agree with you?" I hope you know the answer already.) \n\nHitler wanted to exterminate every Jew on earth, not change their minds.  His reasons for killing Jews (which is part of what makes the Holocaust so remarkable) had nothing to do with their beliefs.  It was all about their birth, and many secular and converted Jews were murdered alongside their orthodox counterparts.\n\nYou should really read up more on the holocaust.  It is possibly the worst thing in human history, and the only thing we can do to prevent something similar is to know how it happened the first time.\n\nP.S.- Here's the really tough question you might want to ponder; After ordering the murder of twelve million innocents and waging a wart to conquer the earth, if Hitler had recanted on his death bed, would G-d have forgiven him.
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No, that's pretty accurate. The other 4% were Jews and other Christian faiths. Hitler was Austrian, and raised a Catholic.\nOne little side-bar, as long as we're discussing Nazi Germany: One of the first things Hitler did when coming to power was to ban all abortions, citing them as an "abomination." Thought that was interesting, considering what happened later.
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i am a muslim and i dont know much about what ur saying but i would like to say that opinions are just that opinions, so lets just say that hitler could have been christian or not.  either way it doesnt change anything because he was psychotic anyway