Adolf Hitler on the Church: Quotes from Hitler on Learning from Christianity
Contrary to claims made by Christian apologists seeking ways to attack atheism, Adolf Hitler was not only a Christian but he in fact made it clear that he learned from the early history of Christianity as well as more recent Christian political movements. He certainly didn't copy everything from Christian churches and organizations, but Christianity was a role model in some fundamental ways. Adolf Hitler apparently believed hat he and the Nazi Party could learn a lot from Christianity.
1. Adolf Hitler: Virtuosity of Christian Propaganda
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-Social movement, especially in Lüger's time, achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 6
2. Adolf Hitler: Greatness of Religious Fanaticism & Intolerance
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 1 Chapter 12
3. Adolf Hitler: Christianity's Greatness Lies in Inexorable Fanaticism
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 1 Chapter 12
4. Adolf Hitler: Imitating Christianity's Fanatical, Hysterical Passion
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 2 Chapter 2
5. Adolf Hitler: Imitating Christianity's Fanatical Intolerance
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 2 Chapter 5
6. Adolf Hitler: Filling People with Blind Faith
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 2 Chapter 5
7. Adolf Hitler: Imitating the Christian Creed
I have followed [the Church] in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
- Adolf Hitler, from Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction, pp. 239-40