Tom, I understand what you are saying, but disagree. I think it is dangerous to decide for other people whether they are "true" Christians. Obviously Hitler was very evil, and it would be hard to argue that he was. But to me, it is just as hard to argue that anyone who bombs abortion clinics, or pickets funerals, or hurts homosexual children, is Christian, even though they all loudly claim to be.
If you read the entire excerpt, he was getting inspiration from Paul, and John the Baptist. He simply rejected the concept of a meek and loving Christ, and frankly I have read other posts on this thread which do the same.
And you forgot one very important concept--in Hitler's own words, he has bought into all of the prejudices that Christians had against the Jews, which is what really made the Holocaust possible. Hitler could not have done this on his own. He needed the active cooperation of a Christian Europe which had the same prejudices he did. Don't forget that Martin Luther said pig shit should be thrown on the Jews, and that the Pope has recently apologized for a climate of anti-Semitic prejudice coming from the Church itself, which allowed the Holocaust to happen. |
