Does it matter if Hitler was an Atheist?

[dekesler]

I wrote this in response to someone who was wrongly convinced that Adolf Hitler was an atheist. This person was using the Third Reich as an example of what happens to nations led by Atheists. They did not want to hear about Sweden or Japan

Comments

[christhegeek]

The crime of the holocaust was not based on religious persecution. These people were not being persecuted because they were religiously Jewish. It was about RACIAL purity. These people were part of a demographic, a caste that were being extinguished. That main proponent of the anti jew paraphenalia and brainwashing was about the ethnic qualities of the Jewish people present in Europe at the time.

It makes it no less despicable, but I do feel that the holocaust had slim to nothing to do with religion, other than that it convinced people there was no God.

That causes of the holocaust are many, but perhaps the biggest one would be the fallout for WWI, and the fact that Germany took the blame for the whole thing. The country was suffering a huge economic downfall and a loss of identity. It was a shame to be German for a LONG time.

What Hitler offered them was a sense of pride. He played upon the emptiness of the people and their desire for patriotism and offered them the polar opposite of what they were experiencing. The Germans were not looking for Christian purity, they were looking for German identity, for an escape from the shame, for a chance to prove superiority.

That anyone could profess to be Christian and take pert in the holocaust, yes, is just as revolting as the rest of the whole stupid mess. Still, saying the fault of the holocaust is the fault of the Christians is like saying its the fault of the blonds.

There were Christians there....the people were primarily Christians. They killed million of people. There were blonds there. There were primarily blonds. They killed millions of people. Is it because they were christian? Is it because they were blond? No, they were Christian and blond because those were the primary people handed this disgusting manifest of hatred.

[dekesler]

I am not saying that the German people did what they did because they were Christian. I am saying that the German people professed Christianity when they did what they did. I will allow others to sort out to what extent their faith influenced or hindered their actions.

[christhegeek]

It was the phrase "For this reason, the crime of the Holocaust falls squarely upon Christianity," which mislead me, then.

[dekesler]

I was being provocative with that phrase. I will concede as much. Bear in mind, I was engaged in an exchange with someone who was spreading the myth that Hitler was some sort of Atheist.