Most of these quotes come from private conversations, meaning they are not propaganda texts, but official records such as "Table Talk" recorded by stenographers who were civil servants, or personal notes of other officials.
Nazi Germany conversation minutes regarding Poitiers / Charles Martel:
"...the world had already fallen into the hands of the Jews, Christianity was such a 'spineless' thing! If Martel had not won, we probably would have converted to the Mohammedan religion (Islam); if we had converted to Islam, thanks to this magnificent religion which glorifies only the brave warrior and opens the seventh heaven only to him, the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity prevented this."
Source (Bibliographic):
Adolf Hitler, Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944: His Private Conversations Ed.:Hugh Trevor-Roper Publisher:Enigma Books (various editions; first English translation 1953) Date of conversation:28 August 1942 In English editions,approximately pages 667–668 / 709–710 (may vary slightly by edition).
The same quote appears, compiled, in these places: "Religious views of Adolf Hitler"entry (Wikipedia) – provides the full quote text and cites the source as Table Talk. "Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab World"entry, where the same sentence is used again in the context of Nazi elite statements about Islam.
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“You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. ... The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity.”
He continues as follows:
"If only we had a religion like the Japanese, which considers self-sacrifice for the homeland the highest good. Islam too would have been much more compatible for us than Christianity. Why did it have to be this soft, lax Christianity?"
Source (Bibliographic):
Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs Publisher:Simon & Schuster (1970 / 1971 English editions) Relevant section:Conversations with Hitler about religion Page:In English editions, around p. 95–96 (may vary between 94–96 depending on translation).
This sentence is also quoted verbatim from Speer in the aforementioned Wikipedia entry "Religious views of Adolf Hitler".
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“The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.”
Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944, Trevor-Roper ed., from one of the 1941–42 conversations; this passage appears with these exact sentences in common editions of Table Talk.
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This time, it's not Hitler, but Goebbels writing; however, he directly conveys Hitler's attitude towards Christianity/the Vatican:
“In his entry for 29 April 1941, Goebbels noted long discussions about the Vatican and Christianity, and wrote: ‘The Führer is a fierce opponent of all that humbug.’”
Source:
Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41, translation: Fred Taylor, Hamish Hamilton, 1982 edition. Diary entry dated 29 April 1941.
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In most of the conversation transcripts, Adolf Hitler utters great blasphemies against Jesus Christ and Judaism (I cannot write them all here). He, however, holds great admiration for the Prophet Muhammad.
Christianity has always preached equality. For example. The very fact that Gentiles (non-Jews) have part with God already shows that Christianity is against racism....
Besides this, the entire point of the parable of the good Samaritan was that when God commanded us to love our neighbor, "neighbor" includes people who we have cultural permission to hate (the Jews hated the Samaritans for various historical reasons) and whose religion we consider heretical (the Samaritans practiced a bastardized form of Judaism that was technically heretical). Loving our neighbor does not mean we are endorse their error; we are still commanded to love them, and to love even our enemies.
In this teaching on what Jesus meant when he said that the second greatest commandment is to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, there is no room for bigotry. Disagreement is not supposed to result in discord and hatred.
Hitler pretended to be Catholic to get elected. Behind closed doors and in his writing, he had nothing but contempt for Christianity and he said that Christianity is incompatible with national socialism.
Another fun fact is that he tried to form an alliance with the Arab world in order to prevent the Balfour Agreement from coming to fruition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Also, SS members were expected to give up their Christian faith at some point.
May I add:
Hitler was not a practicing Christian
Alfred Rosenberg drew up a 30-point program for the National Reich Church (NRC) for his friend Hitler.
Point 1. NRC has exclusive power over all churches in the Reich
Point 13. Must stop publishing and distribution of Bible
Point 14. ‘Mein Kampf’ is the greatest of all documents.
Point 18. Churches remove from all altars any crucifixes, Bibles, and images of saints
Point 19. Altars must have ‘Mein Kampf’ and a sword to the left of the altar
Point 30. The Christian cross must be removed and replaced with a swastika
Reference is p 240 ‘The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’.
Something something you will know a tree by its fruit
You should also look up Positive Christianity. It essentially removes anything deemed to Jewish from the Bible and keeps the ethnic if loving our neighbor while excluding Jews from being their neighbors.
Funny that he claims the “weak, lax” Christian Europe would have been better if they didn’t defeat the “militaristic, manly” Islam in battle…
How did the “weak, womanly” Christians outnumbered by orders of magnitude able to defeat the Muslims @Tours? Obviously he characterized Christianity that way because his twisted hatred and obsession with vanity clouded Christianity in his eyes.
Thank you for this.
God gave us a simple way to detect those who would use Christianity for their own geopolitical ends. We do this by examining their beliefs and deeds and we judge them by their ends and means.
Anyone think Hitler worshiped a Jewish man?
Why do we care what Hitler had to say about Christianity?
Because he ruled a nation that committed mass murder.
All of this reminds me of this funny video about how
...the world is not ready for Germanic Islam!
What historical event is he referencing when he says “if Martel had not won?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours
It’s an absurd assumption that if Islam had have swept Europe that there would even still be a Germany. Hitler seemed to believe that the next 1300 years of European history would have more or less panned out the same.
Adolf Hitler was a great fan of Friedrich Nietzsche, and followed his line of thinking. Nietzsche loved the Greek gods and hated the Jewish God because the Greek gods were strong, handsome, great warriors, rich etc, whereas the Jewish God encouraged repentance and humility. Hitler based his Uberman on the two Greek gods, Apollo and Dionysus. He wrote a book on Dionysus being the antichrist, which he is. The Greek gods, I believe, were the sons and daughters of the Angels in Genesis 6, where they came down to earth and had relations with women. Daniel said that in the last days, a Greek prince, who has no desire for women,ie he is a homosexual, will come and by deception, gain power and overcome the saints of God. He is the man of lawlessness of 2 Thessalonians 2 and has the same end as the Greek prince, who is a demon god, according to Moses, at the coming of the Day of the Lord. Dionysus is the one that has influenced this generation and is the god of the transsexuals. Because he was aborted from his mother and sewn into his father Zeus’ thigh, he is the son of a god and a human. He is a false Christ. Every abortion is a sacrifice to this demon god. There are even some abortion clinics in the US that have sacrifice rituals to Dionysus in the clinics themselves. Women are his greatest followers and if you haven’t noticed, most of the abortion laws are championed by homosexuals. Why would that be, as they don’t even have children, most of them anyway. Homosexuality is an abomination and caused the destruction or desolation of Sodom and Gomorrah. Dionysus is also the god of drunkenness, theatre, nature etc and has the power to heal and give prophesies to people. The drunkenness we saw in the churches from the early 90’s until even now, is the spirit of this demonic God, it is not the Holy Spirit. Being the god of theatre, you can see his influence on Hollywood and the arts scenes in general. He is a god of madness and would also be the god of drug taking. At the opening of the Olympic Games, he was the blue Smurf that was supposed to be in the place of Jesus in the abomination of the last supper blasphemy. Now we see many churches throwing open their doors and welcoming this demon spirit into their midst. Many “Pastors” have even admitted that they are gay. Just as Jesus said, “When you see the abomination of desolation, standing in the Holy place, know that the end is near. “
It’s interesting to me that he considered Bolshevism as the illegitimate child of Christianity… Especially since the Bolsheviks were radically violent Marxists who overthrew the Tsar and became the basis of the Russian Communist Party under Lenin. If I remember correctly, National Bolshevism in Germany was a ultranationalist, fascist movement that wanted a rigidly centralized government where most power rested in their executive leadership. My understanding is that Christian socialists and Marxists have always been staunch advocates of decentralized economic democracy which focuses on governments empowering local communities while reducing the influence of a national executive agenda.
[1:36] “... [The Reich] will firmly protect Christianity as the basis of our entire morality, and the family as the nucleus of our national and state body. It will bring our people back to consciousness of their national and political unity and the duties that flow from it, regardless of status and class. She wants to make reverence for our great past and pride in our old traditions the basis for the education of German youth. It will thus declare a merciless war on intellectual, political and cultural nihilization. Germany must not and will not sink into communist anarchy!”
— Adolf Hitler, first radio address as Reich Chancellor dated February 1, 1933: Hitler, Adolf. [Adolf Hitler's First Radio Address as Chancellor of Germany]. 1933.
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@HitlerLovedChrist
On many points, I agree with Hitler's views on Christianity. I find them generally affirming to my Christian faith.
He said these things about Christianity "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure."
"The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew."
"But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery."
"This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)"
"Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair."
"The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble."
"I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise."
"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity."
"If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself."