Hitler Was Not An Atheist | Godless Blogger

Oct20 Hitler The Atheist? Bullshit.
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A common argument that seems to be presented, is that Hitler was an atheist and look what he did. While this is a foolish point to make anyway, Hitler was not in fact an atheist. Honestly though you see people from all creeds, cultures, races and religions who are tyrants or want to do harm. Hitler just happened to be a Catholic. Don’t believe me? Look here at this line from Mein Kampf:

… I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord’s work.

This just doesn’t seem like a phrase your average atheist would use. But maybe that’s just me. Even better is this excerpt from a speech he made on April 12 1922:

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. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people

Maybe that isn’t enough for you. How about an outright admission? Hitler made this comment to one of his generals in 1941:

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

He also had Nazi soldiers wearing belt buckles inscribed with the phrase “Gott mit uns” or God is with us. What atheist does that? I think it is pretty clear what Hitler’s affiliation was. Next time somebody tries to compare you to Hitler, remember these facts.

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Jim
Maybe not a Catholic but a Christian of some denomination or one of his own making. Definately believed he was doing his gods work. Mein Kampf contains his own thoughts as words. These are not quotes by historians but Hitler's own words. Christians might not like it but he was a believer.

Collusion with the Catholic church over their right to minister in nazi territories so long as they didn't interfere with nazi politics?

Also, some alied soldiers were interviewed on a program and they expressed surprise that the belt buckles on the storm trooper uniforms had "Gott Mit Uns" stamped on them.

Not the actions of an atheist.
Patrick Oden
Well, no group exactly wants to have to claim Hitler (perhaps except some right-wing extremist groups), so atheists and theists alike will spin every word and phrase the opposite way.

I do think that Hitler was a theist, whether or not he was a Christian (though he probably was that, too).
Cat's Staff
How about "The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." - Hitler

That could have been said by James Dobson.

Hitler at 1934 Nuremberg Rally

I think it's pretty clean Hitler was not an atheist. He was a Christian in a loose sense perhaps. He was trying to appeal to both the Catholic Church and the Reich Church at the same time. There was some Germanic pagan influence early on, but there isn't any evidence that Hitler would have identified his self as a pagan.

The Gott Mit Uns motto predates WWII and Hitler.
Remy Overkempe
Well, historians are not exactly in agreement whether or not Hitler was really as religious or atheist as some people say. He has a lot of contradicting quotes attributed to him, which to me seems obvious for someone who is maybe religiously dogmatic in politics, but perhaps not in his faith. True, he was "born" a Catholic (something you never lose, unfortunately; I was born one), but I do think that to classify him as Catholic would be wrong. As I was taught in high school (which, yes, considering it was a protestant Dutch private school, and Hitler is considered worse than the devil over here), his Catholic faith was more protestant than his upbringing might suggest.