Well he did mock Christianity openly in it in a way I'd expect no Christian of faith to utter anything remotely that bad. He was such an inept leader. Russia has like 20+ different ethnicities and a bunch of different religions. If only he went their to liberate them he could have shattered the Soviet Union on it's own. Go look at Napoleon and how he ignored good advice from so many and instead insisted on Moscow and it was the same with Hitler. Ukraine had no love of Stalin and the USSR and would have happily sided almost entirely with anyone seeking to liberate them, but Hitler had blind and neverending ambition that amazingly didn't sit well with most people in the lands he was aiming to take over.
Look, I'm not defending that son of a bitch who is responsible for some of my kin dying in the fucking war. But let's not kid ourselves, here. "Gott mit uns" was stamped on his troops belt buckles. Want to know how I know that? I've got several that were collected by my kin and passed down as a reminder and memento to us kids. "Gott mit uns" literally God is with us.
I don't doubt that the folks in charge will happily and readily use their subjects faith to their benefit in a war. We've got Kid Smeller Joe Biden who clutches his Rosaries and pretends to be Catholic and we had GW Bush who repeatedly used his Christian faith to justify Iraq, which had nothing to do with Christianity and caused millions of Middle Eastern Christians to be displaced. The folks in power more often than not don't believe the faith their subjects and citizens do and there is an ancient Roman quote about that.
Because he was looking for allies, don't mistake that for his personal belief's. He would promise them the moon and stars to help contain Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germany
Well he did mock Christianity openly in it in a way I'd expect no Christian of faith to utter anything remotely that bad. He was such an inept leader. Russia has like 20+ different ethnicities and a bunch of different religions. If only he went their to liberate them he could have shattered the Soviet Union on it's own. Go look at Napoleon and how he ignored good advice from so many and instead insisted on Moscow and it was the same with Hitler. Ukraine had no love of Stalin and the USSR and would have happily sided almost entirely with anyone seeking to liberate them, but Hitler had blind and neverending ambition that amazingly didn't sit well with most people in the lands he was aiming to take over.
Look, I'm not defending that son of a bitch who is responsible for some of my kin dying in the fucking war. But let's not kid ourselves, here. "Gott mit uns" was stamped on his troops belt buckles. Want to know how I know that? I've got several that were collected by my kin and passed down as a reminder and memento to us kids. "Gott mit uns" literally God is with us.
I don't doubt that the folks in charge will happily and readily use their subjects faith to their benefit in a war. We've got Kid Smeller Joe Biden who clutches his Rosaries and pretends to be Catholic and we had GW Bush who repeatedly used his Christian faith to justify Iraq, which had nothing to do with Christianity and caused millions of Middle Eastern Christians to be displaced. The folks in power more often than not don't believe the faith their subjects and citizens do and there is an ancient Roman quote about that.
I concur. Completely. But don't brush off Hitler's faith. Think "Jim Jones."