What you think you know is wrong. They certainly do. Furthermore, The Hoover Institution (part of Stanford University) studied philanthropic giving and volunteerism among populations making 30,000 observations over 50 different communities and found that religious people are much more likely to donate money to charities (91 percent to 66 percent) more likely to volunteer time (67 percent to 44 percent), etc... So in addition to atheists practicing immorality at a higher rate than evangelical Christians (which includes both those who merely profess to be Christians and actual genuine spiritually regenerated Christians) in their lives; they're also less likely to donate to charities and volunteer their time to charities.
Now obviously Hitler was NEVER a genuine Christian spiritually reborn into the Kingdom of God conforming his life to the teachings of Jesus Christ whom he made the Lord of his life displaying the true mark of a genuine Christian which are the fruits of the Holy Spirit (e.g. love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control).
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In fact, just the exact opposite is true.
As
Allan Bullock writes, "from a young age, Hitler had no time at all for Catholic teaching regarding it as a religion fit only for slaves and detesting its ethics."
Dinesh may not have his political contributions in order but he certainly got this topic right when he states:
"Hitler needed the support of the German people — both the Bavarian Catholics and the Prussian Lutherans — and to secure this he occasionally used rhetoric such as "I am doing the Lord's work." To claim that this rhetoric makes Hitler a Christian is to confuse political opportunism with personal conviction. Hitler himself says in Mein Kampf that his public statements should be understood as propaganda that bears no relation to the truth but is designed to sway the masses.
The Nazi idea of an Aryan Christ who uses the sword to cleanse the earth of the Jews — what historians call "Aryan Christianity" — was obviously a radical departure from the traditional Christian understanding and was condemned as such by Pope Pius XI at the time. Moreover, Hitler's anti-Semitism was not religious, it was racial. Jews were targeted not because of their religion — indeed many German Jews were completely secular in their way of life — but because of their racial identity. This was an ethnic and not a religious designation. Hitler's anti-Semitism was secular.
Hitler's Table Talk, a revealing collection of the Fuhrer's private opinions, assembled by a close aide during the war years, shows Hitler to be rabidly anti-religious. He called Christianity one of the great "scourges" of history, and said of the Germans, "Let's be the only people who are immunized against this disease." He promised that "through the peasantry we shall be able to destroy Christianity." In fact, he blamed the Jews for inventing Christianity. He also condemned Christianity for its opposition to evolution.
Hitler reserved special scorn for the Christian values of equality and compassion, which he identified with weakness. Hitler's leading advisers like Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich and Bormann were atheists who hated religion and sought to eradicate its influence in Germany."
He was also an
intravenous meth addict with a penchant for Germanic neo-paganism and the occult
who imprisoned a great many genuine Christians in Nazi death camps for refusing to compromise the teaching of Christ and saving Jews.
John's 8:44 passage finds its perfect application in men like Hitler:
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
The Bible clearly teaches that a person who merely professes (example: to deceive others for gain) and a genuine Christian are two completely different things:
Was Adolf Hitler a Christian? - a report on How Hitler Viewed God - The 700 Club | CBN.com
I'll let one of them, a miss
Corrie Ten Boom, who survived his death camps for saving Jews (her father and sister died in Nazi interment and her brother was crippled from the beatings) explain it to you since you lack an accurate understanding:
Professor or Possessor by Corrie ten Boom (audio) |
If you want to understand the difference between a counterfeit and a genuine Christian, contrast the life of Hitler with that of Corrie Ten Boom. She's the genuine article.
Then maybe you'll stop going around trying to pretend like Hitler was following Jesus Christ. *rolls eyes*. He obviously wasn't. He was following his father the devil, the father of lies, pretending to be many things to many people that he obviously was not.
Dispel your ignorance and negative volition toward Christ and learn to tell the difference between a liar who professes to be something they are not and the genuine article using God's Word or I'll start calling you a Mohammad Percepi because you put gas in your car that originates in Saudi Arabia... lol.
I doubt polling and statistics prove the former and I know the latter isn't true. inb4 Hitler because Hitler professed to be Christian.
