I read somewhere that "The Christian Church willfully supported Hitler". Is this true?
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Yes, the Roman Catholic church was guilty of this. What was worse, when fleeing Jews came to the Catholic Church for help in escaping, they agreed to help, but ONLY if they would convert to Christianity. This, to me, was the most heinous thing I had ever heard.\n\nMainstream Christians were actually hiding Jews. Read the book The Hiding Place. Corrie Ten Boom lost her entire family because she hid Jews in her home in Holland. Many Christians died doing this. You will find their trees planted in Yad Vashem in Israel.
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The hatred in the Middle East is a result of totalitarian control and super-nationalism.\nLook at it this way. The Nazis were all Christians, did that make Christianity an evil thing?
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They were desperate for relief and Hitler turned a poor war beaten country into a super power.\n\nThe only thing he did wrong was killing millions of jews, pagans atheist, communist and homosexuals.\n\nWait isn't that what most christians want??
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It is only right to place the Jews first on the list of the Nazis' victims.\n\nHowever millions of Catholics and other Christians were also killed. No one knows exactly how many. I've seen claims of up to 42,000,000 but I could not find documentation for this number.\n\nAlso remember most the the allied military dead were Christians.
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yup Hitler got it from the bible after all he was Christian
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The quotation you site IS shocking for those who have been duped by the conventional church all this time.  To anyone objective, it is exactly what would be expected.  Christians have brought more violence and bigotry to the earth than any other group.  There is NO HIDDEN MEANING to the passage.  It's very simple.  By starting Christianity, Christ brought a "sword to the world." End of statement.
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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
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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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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. The worst doctrines of that church never left him. He was steeped in its liturgy, which contained the words, "perfidious Jew." This hateful statement was not removed until 1961. Perfidy means treachery. \n\n\nHitler was not sure who his paternal grandfather was, but it was probably either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish [1] and that his paternal grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, had become pregnant after working as a servant in a Jewish household in Graz. During the 1920s, the implications of these rumours along with his known family history were politically explosive, especially for the proponent of a racist ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the leader of the anti-Semitic Nazi Party, had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins. Soviet propaganda insisted Hitler was a Jew, though more modern research tends to diminish the probability that he had Jewish ancestors.
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If Hitler had believed in Jesus and was a true follower of Christ he wouldn't have murdered millions of Jews, Socialists and Gays. He wouldn't have sent people to war, he wouldn't have violated every commandment there is... he was a kind of Anti-Christ and if he goes to heaven, I'd volunteer for hell.
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Yes, there is no doubt in my mind.  Think about history.  Every nation that cursed israel  was cursed thereself. Germany is a good example. They exterminated the jews. 6 million. The truth is, Germany was doomed at the begining of world war 11. Why, because God allways protects his word. If the Jews had been exterminated off the planet, Gods word could not be fulfilled. God would not allow that. When the United States Navy was at the end of World War !! it had the biggest navy that had ever sailed in the history of mankind., Over 2000 warships.Why, figure it out yourself.It was Gods providence. The Jews are Gods choosen people.Yes, they are blinded to who there saviour is, That is in prophesy.  If you bother to read the Bible, you will learn why.God states, I will curse those that curse you, and bless those that bless you. You only have to look at the nations that have cursed them to see there end, and look at the nations that have blessed  them to see if this is true.
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Can a Church that doesn't accept both be a true Christian Church?  I don't believe so.\n\nThat's the nature of freedom of religion.\n\nChristian means Christ follower.\n\nSo find me what Christ said about homosexuality, you will find it was NOTHING.\n\nYou can find lots of things in the rest of the  Bible that condemn homosexuality.\n\nFor that matter you can also find God ordering genocides, accepting human sacrifice, sending animals to kill children because they call someone baldy, and causing cannibalism.  In short, the Bible is full of atrocities commanded, committed or permitted by God.  Likewise it is full of errors: historical, biological, chemical, and physical.\n\nChristianity is about following Jesus Christ, Lord of Love, Compassion, Mercy and Peace; not about following a bronze age book, compiled by desperate bishops at the Council of Carthage by vote.\n\nThe Bible is totally and completely incidental to Christianity.  Christians existed for hundreds of years before the bible and its canon were developed, despite the pathetic claims of the fundamentalists, who by their nature are both liars and false prophets.\n\nSo yes, Anglicanism can be a true Church, as can the United Church of Christ and others; but those who pursue hatred and falsehood on behalf of biblio-idolatry -- CANNOT.\n\nClear enough for you?\n\nRegards,\n\nReynolds Jones\nSchenectady, NY\nhttp://www.rebuff.org
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Depends on your and their definition of the term Christian? Everyone who calls themselves a Christian is not  Christ’s disciple. But from a Biblical perspective, I would think that  Messiah would have been more likely to support one of the many Israeli insurgent rag tag armies, like the one that finally rose up against the emperor in 70 ad and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the loss of their country, than that of the occupying Roman Army. As an interesting aside, some  scholars believe that Barabbus, the man who was released  by Pilate, instead of Messiah by the vote of the people, was  a leader of  such a group of anti- Roman insurrectionist, and not just a common criminal.  That the Messiah supported  neither worldly army or supported any earthy kingdom and preached against violence, would cause you to think these facts alone would give the modern right wing, patriotic, Bush supporting,  Jingoistic American Christians a clue, but they remain clueless and will till the Anti-Christ deceives them fully.
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I am incredibly pleased that there is a school somewhere in the world that teaches its students about the reality of the holocaust, and that only 1in3 people killed during it were Jewish.\nHitler was a Roman Catholic, and his Nazi Germany was endorsed by the Papacy, and as a result the Nazis persecuted anyone whom the RC church was against. The nazis not only rounded up Jews, but also Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, the Disabled and Gay people for their concentration camps. All these people were seen as unsavioury by the church, and as unbeneficial to the German society. During 1943, the Nazis started killing people in the concentration camps, for several reasons, one simple one being that too many people meant too many guards, who could be fighting on the frontline. The first people to be butchered in these camps were Russian prisoners of war, then Slavs. Finally, Jews, Gays and disabled people were also slaughtered. Approx 1/2 a million gay people were killed in the Death Camps.
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You won't hear a single word of apology for the Holocaust - because the Catholic Church had absolutely nothing to do with it.\n\nDon't believe me? Sorry for the long entry, but it is necessary:\n\n\nHow Pius XII Protected Jews\nBy Jimmy Akin \n\nThe twentieth century was marked by genocides on an monstrous scale. One of the most terrible was the Holocaust wrought by Nazi Germany, which killed an estimated six million European Jews and almost as many other victims. \n\nDuring this dark time, the Catholic Church was shepherded by Pope Pius XII, who proved himself an untiring foe of the Nazis, determined to save as many Jewish lives as he could. Yet today Pius XII gets almost no credit for his actions before or during the war. \n\nAnti-Catholic author Dave Hunt writes, "The Vatican had no excuse for its Nazi partnership or for its continued commendation of Hitler on the one hand and its thunderous silence regarding the Jewish question on the other hand. . . . [The popes] continued in the alliance with Hitler until the end of the war, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from the Nazi government to the Vatican."[1] \n\nJack Chick, infamous for his anti-Catholic comic books, tells us in Smokescreens, "When World War II ended, the Vatican had egg all over its face. Pope Pius XII, after building the Nazi war machine, saw Hitler losing his battle against Russia, and he immediately jumped to the other side when he saw the handwriting on the wall. . . . Pope Pius XII should have stood before the judges in Nuremberg. His war crimes were worthy of death."[2] \n\nOne is tempted simply to dismiss these accusations, so wildly out of touch with reality, as the deluded ravings of persons with no sense of historical truth. This would underestimate the power of such erroneous charges to influence people: Many take these writers at their word. \n\nStepping out of the nightmare fantasyland of Hunt and Chick and back into sunlight of the real world, we discover that, not only was Pius XII no friend of the Nazis, but that his opposition to them began years before the War, before he was elected to the papacy, when he was still Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State. \n\nOn April 28, 1935, four years before the War even started, Pacelli gave a speech that aroused the attention of the world press. Speaking to an audience of 250,000 pilgrims in Lourdes, France, the future Pius XII stated that the Nazis "are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult."[3] It was talks like this, in addition to private remarks and numerous notes of protest that Pacelli sent to Berlin in his capacity as Vatican Secretary of State, that earned him a reputation as an enemy of the Nazi party. \n\nThe Germans were likewise displeased with the reigning pontiff, Pius XI, who showed himself to be a unrelenting opponent of the new German "ideals"—even writing an entire encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge (1937), to condemn them. When Pius XI died in 1939, the Nazis abhorred the prospect that Pacelli might be elected his successor. \n\nDr. Joseph Lichten, a Polish Jew who served as a diplomat and later an official of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, writes: "Pacelli had obviously established his position clearly, for the Fascist governments of both Italy and Germany spoke out vigorously against the possibility of his election to succeed Pius XI in March of 1939, though the cardinal secretary of state had served as papal nuncio in Germany from 1917 to 1929. . . . The day after his election, the Berlin Morgenpost said: ‘The election of cardinal Pacelli is not accepted with favor in Germany because he was always op
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Of course it is...but that's inevitable given your earlier point about using the bible to justify just about anything.\n\nI am sure Hitler could have found good cause to use the bible to justify his actions had he not been an atheist.
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Afraid, no - I despise them because they slow down progress (ready to burn and kill people who claimed that the Earth was round, and every scientific progress since) and with cold, zombie-like determination harass everyone else to follow their rules, spouting horrible insults and threats. The Bosnian war was started by Christians. Hitler's army was Christian. All those wars were actively encouraged, blessed and supported by the respective churches. So all evidence points that they are fascist-like, genocidal and totalitarian, brain-dead bunch of hypocrites who preach heterosexuality, monogamy and morality, and adhere to not a single of those standards (Mormons are Christians and promote polygamy, in case you felt like arguing; for the rest, check Dumbya and his republicans).