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| | Although Hitler may have had some Christian rhetoric in his speeches, he certainly rejected it on a personal level. In the book, ''Hitler's Table Talk'', it reveals that Hitler thought of Christianity as a great "scourge" of history.<ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0110.htm {{dead link}}</ref> | | Although Hitler may have had some Christian rhetoric in his speeches, he certainly rejected it on a personal level. In the book, ''Hitler's Table Talk'', it reveals that Hitler thought of Christianity as a great "scourge" of history.<ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0110.htm {{dead link}}</ref> |
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| − | In Hitler's diaries, which were published in 1953, it was revealed that Hitler, at some point, embraced [[atheism]] while rejecting Christianity as an invention of Judaism, which he held similar animosity toward: | + | In Hitler's ''Table Talk'', which were published in 1953, it was revealed that Hitler, at some point, embraced [[atheism]] while rejecting Christianity as an invention of Judaism, which he held similar animosity toward: |
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| − | {{cquote|And while many atheists make the preposterous claim that Adolf Hitler was a Christian, his private diaries, first published in 1953 by Farrar, Straus and Young, reveal clearly that the Fuhrer was a rabid atheist: "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity," Hitler stated, "was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew… Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity."<ref name="Today's atheists"/>}} | + | {{cquote|And while many atheists make the preposterous claim that Adolf Hitler was a Christian, his private conversations, first published in 1953 by Farrar, Straus and Young, reveal clearly that the Fuhrer was a rabid atheist: "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity," Hitler stated, "was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew… Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity."<ref name="Today's atheists"/>}} |
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| | {{See also|Atheists, Adolf Hitler and the no true Scottsman fallacy}} | | {{See also|Atheists, Adolf Hitler and the no true Scottsman fallacy}} |