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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (7 children)

Do his words and actions which contradict that after he took power not matter by comparison?

Which words and actions? Do you have sources?

Every time I’ve heard this, nobody can give actual sources. I can, though, for everything from a sanctioned christian state to the individual regulations for official Nazi groups and the delegation of medals. For instance:

Before 1933, in fact, some bishops prohibited Catholics in their dioceses from joining the Nazi Party. This ban was dropped after Hitler's March 23, 1933, speech to the Reichstag in which he described Christianity as the “foundation” for German values. The Centre Party was dissolved as part of the signing of a 1933 Concordat between the Vatican and Nazi governmental representatives, and several of its leaders were murdered in the Röhm purge in July 1934.

Do you have sources to refute this?

E: sorry, I just saw you’re not my original interlocutor. I’m not trying to be adversarial here.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

Which words and actions? Do you have sources?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler

296 citations there.

That Hitler used Christianity, and that Christians supported Hitler in exchange for preferential treatment and asspats, is not the same as saying that Hitler was a Christian in any realistic sense. Like Mussolini converting to Catholicism and persecuting atheists after a lifetime of personal atheism, fascists will use anything and anyone, and likewise say anything in public, to get their slimy hands on the power to brutalize more people.

I'm an enemy of Christianity on multiple levels, and Christians, both the protestant conservatives and Zentrum Catholics, were an instrumental part of enabling Hitler, and many became enthusiastic Nazis, but Hitler himself was not, realistically speaking, a Christian.

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