This is Getting comepltely out of hand. Hitler was not a Christian; to all intents and purposes he was an atheist. Becuase the idiot Stein claims he was an atheist, now a lot of superficial opponents of Christian fundamentalism (none of them professional historians or specialsits in Nazi Germany and with as much authority to speak on the matter as Stein has to speak about Evolution) all over the internet are rushing around trying to prove he was a Christian. They quote <i>Mein Kampf</i> and public speeches. These sources do no bear on the issue. Since he was addressing in them a Christian audience he presented himself as a Christian to them. Or does anyone think Hitler was above lying to gain political advantage? There are more quotes contradicting the idea that Hitler was a Christian from the writings of Speer and Goebbels, but here are some selections from the Table Talk:
Night of 11th-12th July, 1941
"National Socialism and religion cannot exist together....
"The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity....
"Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things." (p 6 & 7)
10th October, 1941, midday
"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." (p 43)
14th October, 1941, midday
"The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity....
"Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse....
"...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little....
"Christianity <is> the liar....
"We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State." (p 49-52)
19th October, 1941, night
"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."
21st October, 1941, midday
"Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism, the destroyer....
"The decisive falsification of Jesus' <who he asserts many times was never a Jew> doctrine was the work of St.Paul. He gave himself to this work... for the purposes of personal exploitation....
"Didn't the world see, carried on right into the Middle Ages, the same old system of martyrs, tortures, faggots? Of old, it was in the name of Christianity. Today, it's in the name of Bolshevism. Yesterday the instigator was Saul: the instigator today, Mardochai. Saul was changed into St.Paul, and Mardochai into Karl Marx. By exterminating this pest, we shall do humanity a service of which our soldiers can have no idea." (p 63-65)
13th December, 1941, midnight
"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.... <here insults people who believe transubstantiation>....
"When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only people who are immunised against the disease." (p 118-119)
14th December, 1941, midday
"Kerrl, with noblest of intentions, wanted to attempt a synthesis between National Socialism and Christianity. I don't believe the thing's possible, and I see the obstacle in Christianity itself....
"Pure Christianity-- the Christianity of the catacombs-- is concerned with translating Christian doctrine into facts. It leads quite simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely whole-hearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of metaphysics." (p 119 & 120)
9th April, 1942, dinner
"There is something very unhealthy about Christianity." (p 339)
27th February, 1942, midday
"It would always be disagreeable for me to go down to posterity as a man who made concessions in this field. I realize 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 couldn't... behold <its demise>." (p 278)
Someone may look to the Wikipedia article which speaks of the Table Talk as a flawed source. However, what that means is that the TT is not a simple transcription taken by his secretaries of him spouting his bullshit to his cronies, but that it is known that Hitler carefully edited the texts they prodouced. So it is flawed in that sense, being one thing and seeming another so it must be treated accordingly. Hitler probably wanted to base his true political testament on the TT so it certainly expresses his views.
Clearly Hitler was not a Christian. He was not an occultist lunatic like Himmler either. He wanted National Socialism to take the place of religion. This would have effectively left himself as god. This is why I spoke earlier of him being for all intents and purposes an atheist. He is as much an Atheist as O'Biren in 1984 whose 'religion' was Ingsoc.
ALso by the way, there are websites that line up the public and private public quotes against each other and pretend there is a debatable issue, without considering the context of the two sets. This is what the Fundmaentalists want in regard to 'teach the controversy.'