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| | ::6. Nazi General Gerhard Engel declared that in 1941 Hitler said, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." Source: John Toland (1992). Adolf Hitler. New York: Anchor Publishing, p. 507. | | ::6. Nazi General Gerhard Engel declared that in 1941 Hitler said, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." Source: John Toland (1992). Adolf Hitler. New York: Anchor Publishing, p. 507. |
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| − | ::Hitler was not a practicing Catholic. He may have been a nominal, cafeteria Catholic who wanted to inject ideas that he liked into Catholicism and remove Catholic doctrines that he not like from Catholicism. He appears to be an anti-Christian/anti-clerical theists. | + | ::Hitler was not a practicing Catholic. He may have been a nominal, cafeteria Catholic who wanted to inject ideas that he liked into Catholicism and remove Catholic doctrines that he not like from Catholicism. |
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| | ::He was also appeared to possibly be a evolutionist syncretist when it comes to religion who thought religion should "evolve". Hitler reportedly said (if Hitler's Table Talk is authentic), "When one thinks of the opinions held concerning Christianity by our best minds a hundred, two hundred years ago, one is ashamed to realise how little we have since evolved. I didn't know that Julian the Apostate had passed judgment with such clear-sightedness on Christianity and Christians ... the Galilean, who later was called the Christ, intended something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry ... and it's certain that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore—of a whore and a Roman soldier. The decisive falsification of Jesus's doctrine was the work of St. Paul ... Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely." (Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ed. (2000). Hitler's Table Talk 1941–1944. Trans. Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens. New York: Engima Books, p. 76). | | ::He was also appeared to possibly be a evolutionist syncretist when it comes to religion who thought religion should "evolve". Hitler reportedly said (if Hitler's Table Talk is authentic), "When one thinks of the opinions held concerning Christianity by our best minds a hundred, two hundred years ago, one is ashamed to realise how little we have since evolved. I didn't know that Julian the Apostate had passed judgment with such clear-sightedness on Christianity and Christians ... the Galilean, who later was called the Christ, intended something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry ... and it's certain that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore—of a whore and a Roman soldier. The decisive falsification of Jesus's doctrine was the work of St. Paul ... Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely." (Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ed. (2000). Hitler's Table Talk 1941–1944. Trans. Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens. New York: Engima Books, p. 76). |
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| − | ::Joseph Goebbels wrote in 1941 that Hitler "hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity."[http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheists,_Adolf_Hitler_and_the_no_true_Scottsman_fallacy#Jesus_Christ.27s_gospel_of_love_contrasted_with_Adolf_Hitler.27s_Nazism] | + | :: Hitler appears to be an anti-Christian/anti-clerical who persecuted the [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1986/issue9/9100.html confessing church]. Joseph Goebbels wrote in 1941 that Hitler "hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity."[http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheists,_Adolf_Hitler_and_the_no_true_Scottsman_fallacy#Jesus_Christ.27s_gospel_of_love_contrasted_with_Adolf_Hitler.27s_Nazism] |
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| | ::7. On the other hand, Michael Burleigh said regarding Hitler's worldview: "a mixture of materialist biology, a faux-Nietzschean contempt for core, as distinct from secondary, Christian values, and a visceral anti-clericalism." Source: (Burleigh, Michael (2001). The Third Reich - A New History. London: Pan Books. pp. 716–717.). | | ::7. On the other hand, Michael Burleigh said regarding Hitler's worldview: "a mixture of materialist biology, a faux-Nietzschean contempt for core, as distinct from secondary, Christian values, and a visceral anti-clericalism." Source: (Burleigh, Michael (2001). The Third Reich - A New History. London: Pan Books. pp. 716–717.). |