Adolf Hitler answers the Pope

[BurtWorm]

"The anti-Semitism of the new movement (Christian Social movement) was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge."

"Mein Kampf", Vol. 1, Chapter 3

"I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work."

Speech, Reichstag, 1936

"I have followed <the Church> in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it."

from Rauschning, _The Voice of Destruction_, pp. 239-40

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed."

speech in Munich on April 12, 1922, countering a political opponent, Count Lerchenfeld, who opposed antisemitism on his personal Christian feelings. Published in "My New Order", quoted in Freethought Today April 1990

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."

Mein Kampf_, pp. 46

"What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator."

Mein Kampf_, pp. 125

"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief."
Mein Kampf_, pp.152

"And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God."

Mein Kampf_, pp.174

"Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve."

Mein Kampf_, pp.309

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so"

letter to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941




More relevant Hitler quotes at this link:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/09/list_of_hitler_quotes_in_honor.php#more

[jobycom]

1. Well done, but one exception. Hermann Rauschning was not a reliable source.

His book "The Voice of Destruction" was published in 1940, based on what he claimed were private conversations with Hitler. It was written specifically to convince the west to fear Hitler and take action against him. Later research has shown that Rauschning was a minor official who rarely met Hitler and was certainly never close to him, although he claims in the book that everything is based on many long, private conversations with Hitler. Those conversations never happened. It's possible he knew someone who told him these things, and used his own name to protect their identity, but without proof, it's hard to trust anything he wrote.

That only affects your third quote, as far as I know. The quote from the Munich speech is authentic, and the most damning of the lot IMHO, not just for the pope, but for today's demagogues who use Christianity to attack Islam.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. I know of a certain Fred Flintstone lookalike pundit who would shit his pants if

he read this.