Firstly, this post is not intended to attack the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), our national broadcaster. You can get that from other outlets. Today their news website ran with a story about a couple of former neo-Nazis, Justin and Lisa Beulah, who have now renounced their former lives. They are now a respectable, mainstream Christian couple. For that I am glad.
However, talking about her past, Lisa claims that one of the reasons that she became interested in Nazism was that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler "was a Christian." The story does not correct Beulah's claims.
My problem with this is that the reader may think, "There you go, Hitler was a Christian. Look at how evil Hitler was. Think of how many people he killed. If that's what Christians are like, there's no way that I'd ever want to be one."
As I have written here before, Hitler was no follower of Jesus. He payed lip service to Christianity, because it was good for him politically. As Tim O'Neill has observed:
"Overall, the evidence indicates that Hitler was a manipulative politician who could pay careful lip-service to Christian ideas where and when it suited him. He was clearly a theist, but claims he was a Christian do not stack up and depend mainly on pre-1933 public statements and writings and some isolated later statements...which are either rhetorical or flatly duplicitous. Hitler was not a pagan and was not an atheist. But he was not a Christian and was definitely not a Catholic."
The truth is that he despised Christianity, and all that it stood for. I sincerely hope that the Beulahs realise this.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-and-the-racial-corruption-of-religion/10097168
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/10/26/was-hitler-a-christian-an-atheist-or-neither/
https://historyforatheists.com/2019/05/the-great-myths-7-hitlers-pope/
"Overall, the evidence indicates that Hitler was a manipulative politician who could pay careful lip-service to Christian ideas where and when it suited him. He was clearly a theist, but claims he was a Christian do not stack up and depend mainly on pre-1933 public statements and writings and some isolated later statements...which are either rhetorical or flatly duplicitous. Hitler was not a pagan and was not an atheist. But he was not a Christian and was definitely not a Catholic."
The truth is that he despised Christianity, and all that it stood for. I sincerely hope that the Beulahs realise this.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-and-the-racial-corruption-of-religion/10097168
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/10/26/was-hitler-a-christian-an-atheist-or-neither/
https://historyforatheists.com/2019/05/the-great-myths-7-hitlers-pope/
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