Was Hitler a Christian?

[Centurion]

He was very critical against Christianity, and actually made a lot of good points. Despite that, he was more of a deist than an atheist. Centuries of christian church have been built by the Third Reich and the Christian cult in Germany during this period was very perennial. Catholic practice and catholic influence and teaching in schools were encouraged by Hitler. Tons of Christian priest in Germany were fervent nazis. Remember the motto "kinder kirche küche".

[Armenian Bishop]

Well, Hitler in his later days disliked Christianity since the religion's beliefs contradicts his beliefs on race and so on. Christianity is a very altruistic religion, esp say towards the poor and the needy which much of the religious right in the US like Kenneth Copeland or Kent Hovind for example despise, you know? When Saint Paul talked about heretics he was referring to these kind of people.

You're Right about Hitler,, and I would've said something about it, if my comment was more lengthy.

As you explained: Christianity is virtuous and altruistic, and the altruism of Christianity benefits the poor and needy. As Hitler matured into adulthood, his father's ideas (about the survival of the fittest) became more dominant in his own character. Consequently, the world became a witness to his war crimes.

The Religious Right too often focuses upon institutional wealth building (for the religious hierarchy); but, it's no scarcity among them to provide charity for the poor, as can be seen with missionary projects.

[Tenma de Pegasus]

No, his behavior was about Jesus, his obsetions were all about Germany and its reich, his religion was the Totalitarism.

[Hoosierboy]

Of course he was a Christian. Only an anti-intellectual with a tin foil hat who watches too many propaganda shows about Hitler would believe he wasn't a Christian.

[Komintasavalta]

The view on Christianity presented in Hitler's Table Talk is very Nietzschean, where Christianity is seen as representing a form of slave morality.

In Hitler's Table Talk, Hitler (or whoever actually authored the text) said that Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche are the "greatest of our thinkers", but that Schopenhauer has been "far surpassed by Nietzsche" (https://archive.org/details/HitlersTableTalk_1941_1944):

In the Great Hall of the Linz Library are the busts of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the greatest of our thinkers, in comparison with whom the British, the French and the Americans have nothing to offer. His complete refutation of the teachings which were a heritage from the Middle Ages, and of the dogmatic philosophy of the Church, is the greatest of the services which Kant has rendered to us. It is on the foundation of Kant's theory of knowledge that Schopenhauer built the edifice of his philosophy, and it is Schopenhauer who anni- hilated the pragmatism of Hegel. I carried Schopenhauer's works with me throughout the whole of the first World War. From him I learned a great deal. Schopenhauer's pessimism, which springs partly, I think, from his own line ofphilosophical thought and partly from subjective feeling and the experiences of his own personal life, has been far surpassed by Nietzsche.

Hitler gave Mussolini a 24-volume set of books by Nietzsche as a gift for his 60th birthday in 1943. From "Hitler's War" by David Irving (http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Hitler/2001/HW_Web_dl.pdf):

He lavished gifts on the Italian dictator. Henriette Hoffmann has described how Hitler was to be seen in his favourite Munich cafe with a bookbinder, inspecting leather samples for a presentation set of the philosopher Nietzsche's works for Mussolini: Hitler rubbed the leather skins, sniffed them, and finally rejected them all with the pronouncement, 'The leather must be glacier-green' - meaning the bleak blue-green of the glaciers from which Nietzsche's Zarathustra contemplated the world. [...] All that was known was that he was still alive, because Hitler's sixtieth birthday gift to him - a twenty-four-volume set of Nietzsche - was duly acknowledged by the deposed dictator.

[Kamal900]

You're Right about Hitler,, and I would've said something about it, if my comment was more lengthy.

As you explained: Christianity is virtuous and altruistic, and the altruism of Christianity benefits the poor and needy. As Hitler matured into adulthood, his father's ideas (about the survival of the fittest) became more dominant in his own character. Consequently, the world became a witness to his war crimes.

The Religious Right too often focuses upon institutional wealth building (for the religious hierarchy); but, it's no scarcity among them to provide charity for the poor, as can be seen with missionary projects.

Yeah..Kenneth Copeland is such people. A multi-millionaire pastor who doesn't pay any taxes whatsoever, and scamming the poorer peoples off their hard earned dollar just for him to live like a king which heavily contradicts on what Jesus himself stood for, esp after he drove the money peddlers from the temple with a whip or something. No offence really, but this hypocritical form of Christianity is only found in the US for the most part. I don't know if you know this but many Armenians in Lebanon live in little Armenia called Bourj 7amoud, and my dad is close friends with an Armenian priest living in the area. He lives in a very simple lifestyle. His beliefs are pretty similar to the Copts since they too follow the Orthodox way of life very seriously. I think that the oriental churches are more closer to each other and more true to say the original teachings of Christianity than those in the west.