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Was Adolf Hitler Christian or Atheist, you tell me?

Adolf Hitler one of the most evil men to ever walk the face of the Earth, so what's the truth, was Adolf Hitlers ideology based off of Christainity or Atheism?

 

 

 

Christian

Side Score: 51
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Atheist

Side Score: 52
6 points

Adolf Hitler's Quote

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 against the Jewish poison. Today, 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. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed."

[Adolf Hitler, speech in Munich on April 12, 1922, countering a political opponent, Count Lerchenfeld, who opposed antisemitism on his personal Christian feelings. Published in "My New Order", quoted in Freethought Today April 1990]

Side: Christian
4 points

He sounds mighty Christian to me......

Adolf Hitler's Quote

Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years."

[The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872]

Side: Christian
Liber(1730) Disputed
1 point

He sounds mighty Christian to me.

I guess then that I must sound might Islamic to you, considering what I'm about to write (well, when it gets to you, it'll have been writ):

Allah is the one true God, the Christian god is dead and died by the pen of Mohammed! Down with the Christ-following, blind infidels! Allah wills it!

I can write whatever the cunty-fuck I feel like writing, doesn't mean that I either believe in or support that which I write.

Side: Atheist
Boo21(8) Disputed
0 points

Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo Warjin(44) you my friend are a lifeless savage..... How can you debate, debate and debate without your fingers being tired?

Side: Atheist
The Phantom(453) Disputed
2 points

Lifeless savages do not debate .

Side: Christian
2 points

I dont know but I do know he believed in Aliens which is one reason why he believed his kind was so special to need to rule the world, at least I think anyways.

Side: Christian
1 point

He indeed believed in aliens, as do I but that's another debate all together. Hitler thought that the pure Aryan race was not from this World and got diluted over time through inner breeding with other Earthy races.

Side: Christian
2 points

I believe in Aliens as well and know of this as well but either way that dont matter cause idk

Side: Christian
2 points

Hitler clearly proclaimed a belief in a God. Therefore he cannot possibly be an atheist.

Hitler identified himself as a Christian. If deciding who is a Christian is based on that person's actions then there are very few Christians in the world. Therefore, if you claim the ability to label people Christian, then Hitler has to be classed as a Christian.

As for the second question of ideology (in the description). Atheism, by definition, has no ideology beyond not accepting the existence of deities. Hitler clearly did not subscribe to this ideology.

Side: Christian
2 points

While maybe not completely being a Christian, Hitler certainly was not an atheist.

Side: Christian
1 point

Adolf Hitler's religious views are a matter of dispute. Raised by a skeptic Catholic father and a devout Catholic mother, Adolf Hitler ceased to participate in the sacraments after childhood. In his book Mein Kampf and in public speeches he often made statements that affirmed a belief in Christianity.[1][2] Prior to World War II Hitler had promoted a "positive Christianity" purged of Judaism and instilled with Nazi philosophy. According to the controversial collection of transcripts edited by Martin Bormann, titled Hitler's Table Talk, as well as the testimony of some intimates, Hitler had privately negative views of Christianity. Others reported he was a committed believer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_views

Side: Christian
WVRN212(41) Disputed
1 point

Research the German Faith Movement and Jakob Wilhelm. That might change your mind. The fascist Positive Christianity was used to slowly fade from worshiping God to total obedience to the fatherland. Such is the way of fascism.

Side: Atheist
1 point

Don't ask us, ask the man himself; Read Mein Kampf.

The question isn't relevant anyway, his Christianity wasn't what caused him to hold the views he had. Although, the Christian environment, including the Christian population and the Catholic Church at the time did play a big role in perpetuating anti-semitic views and rarely spoke against him.

Side: Christian
1 point

I guess he did say he was a Christian in many quotes. Now whether he acted as a Christian should, is another question. Obviously not, because as Christians, we don't have anything against Jews. I don't remember anywhere in the Bible, where it says that we should try and eradicate them. It goes more on the side of living side by side, but yes, I guess he was a Christian.

Side: Christian
1 point

Yes Hitler was a big supporter of Christianity. Hitler was not evil, he was one of the best Christians who ever walked on Gods green earth.

Side: Christian
ChuckHades(3197) Disputed
1 point

Uhh... you're kidding, right ?

Side: Atheist
TMadden38(187) Disputed
1 point

No I'm not kidding..............................................................

Side: Christian
3 points

I don't think he was either Christian nor atheist. I believe he was a mystic, possibly involved in Satanism, and a dabbler in the occult.

Side: Atheist

If you realise, the debate question and the description are incongruous. The debate question asks about Hitler's personal religious convictions while the description questions the basis of his anti-semetic views.

To me, whether or not Hitler was a Christian, he certainly used Christianity as a weapon against the Jews to propagate his anti-semetic worldview.

Side: Atheist
Sitara(11080) Clarified
2 points

That might be true, but Hitler did not truly follow Jesus .

Side: Christian
1 point

Many have used religion as a tool to gain political might; some blame Machiavelli but I believe that the problem is much more antiquated.

Side: Atheist
WVRN212(41) Disputed
1 point

Germany's Positive Christianity is different from Christianity.

Side: Christian
2 points

I think neither, but he most certainly was NOT a christian.

Side: Atheist
1 point

I know, right ?

Side: Atheist
1 point

I think Hitler was not a Christian since he killed millions of Jews and Jews do believe in God (Yahweh). If Hitler was a Christian then he wouldn't kill many of his believers and he would obey God's commandment "thou shall not kill". So it is obvious if he kills Jews then he is not a Christian.

Side: Atheist
3 points

There is a long history of Christians persecuting Jews. Hitler is merely one of them.

Side: Christian
Liber(1730) Disputed
1 point

One can be a Christian and not like Jews. God knows that many a Jew dislikes Christians (stereotypically, at least).

Side: Atheist
vandebater(444) Disputed
1 point

I'm actually pretty sure he's "christian" but a reaaaallllly shitty one!

Side: Christian
1 point

True Christians do not persecute people .

Side: Atheist
Warjin(1577) Disputed
4 points

Tell that to the Native Americans and just about ever other so called non Christan across the World. A perfect example of Christan's today persecuting people are gays.

Side: Christian
Sitara(11080) Disputed
1 point

I am a Christian and I do not persecute anyone unless they bother me first.

Side: Atheist
1 point

Well, i don't know, i'm not an expert, but i don't think he was Jewish...

Side: Atheist
1 point

This is a false dichotomy as he was truly neither. He was religious, but he also didn't like Christianity. He certainly used Christianity to get the people of Germany on his side, but in private despised the church as he saw it a sa rival for power and saw Christiniaty too much like the Jews. His buddy Mussolini however did create the vatican in the form e know it today.

Side: Atheist