From Mein Kampf:
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator ..."
The 25-point declaration of Nazism in 1920 included this point 24:
"24. ...The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession..."
Hitler, Munich, 1st August 1923
"It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God."
Hitler, 1 Feb 1933.
"This the national government will regard its first and foremost duty to restore the unity of spirit and purpose of our Volk. It will preserve and defend the foundations upon which the power of our nation rests. It will take Christianity, as the basis of our collective morality, and the family as the nucleus of our Volk and state, under its firm protection....May God Almighty take our work into his grace, give true form to our will, bless our insight, and endow us with the trust of our Volk."
Hitler, Berlin, 24 Oct. 1933
" We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out"
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The Nazis are often used by some partisan Christians as the prime example of atheistic evil, yet as these quotes demonstrate the matter may not be so simple. Hitler himself was brought up as a Catholic.
What are your thoughts on these matters?
Tom.
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