So what WAS Hitler's beef with religion?

Even though he clearly was a theist, he also seemed to have a huge bee in his bonnet, especially about clergy and organised religion.

So what was his problem? He wasn't an atheist, but what was he then?

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[rozeboosje]

@TruthSurge ;-)

[TruthSurge]

@TruthSurge hehehehhe

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testes... 1...2...3

[Knr911]

@Knr911 Oh, I can post now! Freaking GooTube.

[Knr911]

@rozeboosje Absolutely. Not only he wasn't an atheist but he hated atheists, plain and simple. I'm even surprised that he did not send atheists to death camps, along with jews, gypsies, homsexuals, handicapped, communists..., In fact he basically considered atheists to be communists, so that would explain the phenomenon in both ways.

[Knr911]

@Knr911 " In Mein Kampf Hitler writes that Jesus "made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross."

Here we see how christianity was corrupted by jews according to Hitler and how he saw the jews as the root of all evil.

[Knr911]

@Knr911 III)Wiki: "Adolf Hitler's religious views" : "Some scholars maintain, that in contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or Nazi mysticism, and even ridiculed such beliefs in private and possibly in public." // "Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself, but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus, whom Hitler regarded as an Aryan opponent of the Jews."

[rozeboosje]

@Knr911 I'm not sure what you're getting at? I'm looking at my comment of 5 days ago in which I say I see no evidence for Hitler embracing a form of "paganism" in Mein Kampf but plenty of evidence that he embraced a (twisted, maybe, but still undeniable) form of Christianity, and the comments you're posting now appear to be driving at a conclusion that is in agreement with that?

[Knr911]

@Knr911 II) So Hitler declared himself as a devout christian, even if, as you stated, he recognized chritianity as a threat to his totalitarianism.

His hatred of the jewish, among many other things, were because jews are the root of christianity, a latin culture who had "infected" the german culture.

I repeat, he did not believe at all in german paganism, he wanted to abolish chrisitanity to restore german empire for strictly cultural reasons.

Some related wiki articles are very well done.

[Knr911]

@rozeboosje OK. I) "And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord." - Mein Kampf

"I say: my feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who (...) recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to the fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as sufferer but as fighter." - Speech in Munich 1922