Adolf Hitler Was a Christian! Was Adolf Hitler a Christian?, part 8

“Hitler is admitting that his war against
the Jews were so successful because
of his strong Christian Spirituality”
—EvilBible.com

We now continue considering the evidence presented by evilbile.com as they claim, via an article by an “ATHEIST WOMAN” named Charlotte, that Adolf Hitler was a Christian.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

In the last segment we considered the following statement by Hitler:

“The anti-Semitism of the new movement [Christian Social movement] was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.” –Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf

Note that Charlotte is turning this statement into a Hitlerian imprimatur and forcing it to mean that Hitler supports the anti-Semitism of the Christian Social movement because it was, as is supposed to be Hitler’s preference, based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge. This is why she concludes that this disperses the idea that Hitler waged war due to being an Aryan supremacist (as we saw in the last segment).
Let us again, you guessed it, consider the context. Although, we should not have to since we should, at least by now, know that:

1) Charlotte knows not of what she speaks.
2) Evilbible.com is doubly discredited for repeating her fallacies unchallenged.
3) Charlotte thinks that “Christians” is “Christian” is “Christian” and so since Hitler was a “Christian” and was referencing the “Christian Social movement” he must have applied the “Christian Social movement” to himself and was thus affirming that his own view, Nazism, was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

Is it really esoteric? It is not obvious? Even if we grant that the “Christian Social movement” was a Christian movement can we not see that the difference between the “Christian Social movement” and Nazism is what we have considered all along? Note the terminology and see if you can discern the difference:

“Christian Social” movement (aka “Party”).

“National Social” movement (aka “Party”).

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“Christian”

“National”

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Religious

Territorial

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Theology

Nationality

Get the picture? And again, I am not implying that the “Christian Social” movement was motivated by traditional/biblical Christianity but am mere making a point. And the point is, as we shall see, that Hitler was doing the exact opposite of affirming that his view, the Nazi view was actually that that the problem with Jews is their race and not their religious beliefs. If ever their religious beliefs were considered it was merely to note that it was from the Jewish concept of being God’s chosen people and therefore the Jews as a people that the Jews maintained the blood purity which Hitler so envied. Hitler was criticizing the “Christian Social” movement for not opposing Jews on racial grounds. As we will now see.




Hitler begins the chapter which is being quoted, Volume One - A Reckoning - Chapter III: General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period, by noting,

A leader who must depart from the platform of his general philosophy as such, because he recognizes it to be false, behaves with decency only if, in recognizing the error of his previous insight, he is prepared to draw the ultimate consequence.

He was giving advice to not enter politics until you are older and have carefully considered your positions so that you will not change your mind in midstream and thereby loose support of people who will come to consider you unreliable. This will come into play later.
For now let us note that Hitler goes on to write the following with regards to the downfall of Karl Lueger’s “Christian Social Party” and Georg von Schonerer’s “Pan-German Party”, “Lueger could no longer save Austria, and Schonerer could no longer save the German people from ruin. It is infinitely instructive for our present day to study the causes for the failure of both parties.” Hitler then goes on to identify “causes for the collapse of the Pan-German movement in Austria” in stating that “The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.” The “spiritual nature of the people” will come into play later.

At this point let us note that:

As soon as the House of Habsburg had definitely made up its mind to reshape Austria into a Slavic state, it seized upon every means which seemed in any way suited to this tendency…Czech pastors were appointed to German communities; slowly but surely they began to set the interests of the Czech people above the interests of the churches, becoming germ-cells of the de-Germanization process.

This is merely to denote that “Church” does not necessarily mean traditional/biblical Christianity but, in this case, politics over doctrine.

Now we come to the most relevant quote in responding to evilbile.com and Charlotte:

If nevertheless it was unable to achieve its goal and dream of saving Austria, this was due to two deficiencies in its method and to its lack of clarity concerning the aim itself.The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge. The reason for the intrusion of this mistake was the same which brought about the second fallacy.

Now, let us review: Charlotte’s quote ended at “racial knowledge” and she used that to conclude that “it disperses the idea that Hitler raged war due to being an Aryan supremacist….belief not race.”
But what was Hitler’s statement? That “The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge. The reason for the intrusion of this mistake…” There it is as clear as day. Even if you knew nothing else about Hitler or Nazism these eight words which follow directly after the point at which Charlotte chose to end the quote would alert you to her fallacy. You would know, from merely reading half a sentence beyond, that Hitler considered anti-Semitism that is based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge to be a mistake.

What has become of Charlotte’s gnosis? What has come of the supposed skepticism of evilbible.com? Did she merely cut and paste the quotation from another anti-Christian, un-historical and illogical source? Did she read the context, knew that it presented the very opposite of the point that she wanted to make and therefore stopped quoting at a self-servingly convenient point? Are they purposefully out to manipulate their readers via distortions of this sort?
I certainly do not know. I cannot judge motivations but I can judge soundness and one thing is exceedingly certain: her scholarship is substandard and her knowledge of history and logic have been weighed and found wanting.

But let us not stop here as the greater context of Hitler’s statements is even more elucidating. Hitler notes that “At that time” when the Christian Social Party was active “Vienna was so strongly permeated especially with Czech elements that only the greatest tolerance with regard to all racial questions could keep them in a party which was not anti-German to begin with.” This is why “in the struggle against the Jews on a religious basis they [the Christian Social Party] thought they had discovered a slogan transcending all of old Austria's national differences.”

We will continue this consideration in the next segment.