To: Solon who wrote (6723 ) 6/7/2010 7:35:20 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300 I think you should say his "EX-Christian follower":Hitler had a general plan, even before the rise of the Nazis to power, to destroy Christianity within the Reich.[320][321][322] The leader of the Hitler Youth stated "the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement" from the start, but "considerations of expedience made it impossible" publicly to express this extreme position.[320] His intention was to wait until the war was over to destroy the influence of Christianity.[315] Hitler for a time advocated for Germans a form of the Christian faith he called "Positive Christianity",[323][324] a belief system purged of what he objected to in orthodox Christianity, and featuring added racist elements. By 1940 however, it was public knowledge that Hitler had abandoned advocating for Germans even the syncretist idea of a positive Christianty.[325] Hitler maintained that the "terrorism in religion is, to put it briefly, of a Jewish dogma, which Christianity has universalized and whose effect is to sow trouble and confusion in men's minds." [326] Hitler once stated, "We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany."[327]en.wikipedia.org And from an apparently older version of wikipedia - it seems to change pretty often:Derek Hastings sees Hitler's commitment to Christianity as more tenuous. He considers it "eminently plausible" that Hitler was a believing Catholic as late as his trial in 1924, but writes that "there is little doubt that Hitler was a staunch opponent of Christianity throughout the duration of the Third Reich." Goebbels notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race."