Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Clandestine
Hitler was NOT a Roman Catholic.
You will find it in Mein Kampf: "Therefore, I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's Work."

Hitler said it again at a Nazi Christmas celebration in 1926: "Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews ... The work that Christ started but could not finish, I -- Adolf Hitler -- will conclude."

In a Reichstag speech in 1938, Hitler again echoed the religious origins of his crusade. "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work."

Hitler regarded himself as a Catholic until he died. "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so," he told Gerhard Engel, one of his generals, in 1941.

There was really no reason for Hitler to doubt his good standing as a Catholic. The Catholic press in Germany was eager to curry his favor, and the princes of the Catholic Church never asked for his excommunication. Religions encourage their followers to hold authority in unquestioning respect; this is what makes devout religionists such wonderful dupes for dictators.


I also don't really understand this people are inherently bad stuff either. Christianity seems to love to say we are all bad until we accept god. What reasoning is there to assume man is inherently evil? I mean every person I know who is religious or not have the same feelings on not killing someone. I mean, are you just not killing people b/c the bible says so? If the bible were just erased from history, you'd be killing people because there was nothing that said you shouldn't?

I am not saying without religion it would be all champagne in the world. Not for a second do I think wars wouldn't still break out over things like land and resources. I would rather have wars over land than wars over religion any day. As I said before it then sort of holds the leaders behind the war personally responsible. Think about it like this. Over 100 years you could have 5 wars over land, or 2 over land and 4 over religion.

I guess a good way to put it would be that I think religion does more harm than good. Another case where the cure is worse than the (perceived) disease.