Brett Harper

Adolf Hitler was baptized as a Roman Catholic. He was born on April 20, 1889, and baptized in the Catholic Church. His mother, Klara, was a practicing Catholic, while his father, Alois, was a free-thinker. Hitler was also confirmed in the Catholic Church in 1904.

He made public statements aligning himself with Christian ideals and even claimed to be acting in the service of the Almighty Creator. He consistently said that God told him to do what he was doing even to the Jews.

Christian groups supported Hitler and his rise to power. Positive Christianity was one such group.

Positive Christianity (German: positives Christentum) was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity. Adolf Hitler used the term in point 24 of the 1920 Nazi Party Platform, stating: “the Party as such represents the viewpoint of Positive Christianity without binding itself to any particular denomination”. The Nazi movement had been hostile to Germany’s established churches. The new Nazi idea of Positive Christianity allayed the fears of Germany’s Christian majority by implying that the Nazi movement was not anti-Christian. That said, in 1937, Hans Kerrl, the Reich Minister for Church Affairs, explained that “Positive Christianity” was not “dependent upon the Apostle’s Creed”, nor was it dependent on “faith in Christ as the son of God”, upon which Christianity relied; rather, it was represented by the Nazi Party: “The Führer is the herald of a new revelation”, he said.

Hitler’s public presentation of Positive Christianity as a traditional Christian faith differed. Despite Hitler’s insistence on a unified peace with the Christian churches, to accord with Nazi antisemitism, Positive Christianity advocates also sought to distance themselves from the Jewish origins of Christ and the Christian Bible. Based on such elements, most of Positive Christianity separated itself from traditional Nicene Christianity, and as a result, it is in general considered apostate by all mainstream Trinitarian Christian churches, regardless of whether they are Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant.

This is the falg of the German Christian Church during Hitler’s reign.

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

Then there is Reichskonkordat. He negotiated a treaty with the Vatican, suggesting some level of engagement with Christianity.

The Reichskonkordat was a treaty signed on July 20, 1933, between Nazi Germany and the Holy See (Vatican). It aimed to regulate the relationship between the Catholic Church and the German state. The treaty is historically significant because it has never been formally abrogated, meaning it remains technically in effect today. 

Here’s a more detailed look at the Reichskonkordat:

• Purpose:The treaty sought to define the rights and obligations of the Catholic Church within Nazi Germany, while also granting the Nazi regime a degree of international legitimacy. 
• Key Provisions:The Reichskonkordat included provisions regarding religious freedom, the appointment of bishops, Catholic education, and the protection of religious orders. 
• Historical Context:The treaty was signed shortly after Hitler came to power and amidst the Nazis’ consolidation of power. It was a period where the Nazi regime was actively seeking international recognition and attempting to bring various German institutions under its control. 
• Significance:The Reichskonkordat is a complex and controversial agreement. While it granted some protections to the Catholic Church, it also allowed the Nazi regime to present itself as respecting religious freedom, despite its ongoing persecution of religious minorities and dissidents. Some argue it was a strategic move by the Vatican to safeguard the Church’s interests in a dangerous political climate, while others criticize it for lending legitimacy to a totalitarian regime. 
• Ongoing Relevance:The Reichskonkordat remains in effect because it has never been formally denounced by either the Vatican or the German state. This has led to ongoing discussions about its implications and legacy, particularly in light of the Church’s current challenges in Germany. 

I am sick and tired of Christians saying he wasn’t a Christian. The man said he was Christian, said his movement was Christian, was elected and put in power by Christians, supported and protected by Christians for much of his reign and although Christians would love to run away from this this is history and facts are facts and they don’t care about your feelings.

Those who ignore or refuse to acknowledge history are doomed to repeat it. That is why you have a Nazi fascist racist in office building concentration camps to house immigrants in just like Hitler did with Jews using some of the same language to describe them as Hitler used to describe Jewish immigrants and if yu can’t see that its because you are willfully blind and likely complicit. Shame on your Christians trying to erasae history instead of facing your past! Shame on you for allowing it to happen again by elected who you did! This is your repeated behavior of racism, of colonization, or cruelty and you will own it!

“Christian compromise with Nazi Germany’s political leadership is well documented in painful detail. There was resistance, but it was the exception rather than the rule. German Christianity was terribly timid. Leadership lacked spiritual strength because of serious Biblical ignorance and unbelief. But it was not just the leaders. Christians in Germany — Protestants even more than Catholics — not only cooperated with the Third Reich, a large percentage even celebrated it.”

Evangelicals for Adolf: Christians in Hitler’s Germany

This lie that the churches opposed Hitler the whole time or somehow real Christians did is just to save face. Its just so Christians don’t have to look in the mirror, check their own hate, racism, and bigotry. The Christians didn’t give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves. They only started to care when Hitler started turning on the Church. They didn’t care until they were the ones under fire. s

“In both German churches there were members, including clergy and leading theologians, who openly supported the Nazi regime. With time, anti-Nazi sentiment grew in both Protestant and Catholic church circles, as the Nazi regime exerted greater pressure on them.”

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state

If only there was a great example of these spineless, gutless cowards that voted in the new Hitler freaking out when one of their own is attacked by ICE or something. Then we could connect the dots that they only care when its about them. Oh wait… we have that.