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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm pretty sure Hitler was Catholic was he not? He also most certainly didn't like the Jews. Also he was involved in occult stuff which I lump in the same sort of fictitious nonsense as religion. What's the difference between believing in imaginary gods or the supernatural?
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Hitler was raised a Catholic, but was openly hostile to the church, as he saw it as a rival to his power. He co-operated with the major churches when he had to, but ultimately sought to usurp them. He wanted to co-opt Christianity and remove it's power structure and many of its scriptures with Jewish roots. By the end the Nazis were full on persecuting the Catholic Church. When the nazis invaded a country, they would typically execute the higher ranking clergy. The Nazis' use of the word Christian had far more to do with ethnicity than ideology.