Adolph Hitler was not a Christian

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Adolph Hitler was not a Christian, but even further than that he had deep distain for the Christian worldview and social values. Although raised a Catholic, Hitler repeatedly made statements in stark contradiction to Christlike moral values and biblical doctrine. For example, Alfred Rosenberg and Joseph Goebbels both independently recall many conversations in which Hitler made statements comparing Christianity to syphilis, saying they both “made humanity unhappy and unfree”.1 Goebbels and Rosenberg also report that Hitler made statements referring to “the problem of Christianity” and Rosenberg even underlines this term in his diary entry about this conversation.2

In our modern age it is easy to perceive all forces against the clear evil of sexual ‘liberation’ and

excessive racial integration to be strictly good and biblical, whereas the reality is otherwise. In

other records Goebbels claims that “The Führer thinks Christianity is ripe for destruction”3 and

seems elated at this idea, regardless of the fact Goebbels and Hitler himself presented themselves

publicly as Christians. Further still, Hitler is recorded to have referred to the belief of following

Christ as a poison.4

These details only scratch the surface of the available records and information about Hitler’s anti-Christian views, but for even more in-depth information take a look at the pinned thread on my twitter account (@not_our_guy). Regardless of your opinions of Hitlers policy views on economics or even nationalism it’s important for Christians to perform a realistic self-assessment and ask why so many right-wing believers feel a draw to defend him. Take yourself out of the time period you live, out of the moral degradation of the current year, and assess Hitler as an individual and the ideology he propagated in comparison to Christ’s character as exhibited in the gospels.

If you are honest with yourself, you will recognize the Führer is worthy of no adoration or reverence. Conservative Christians should not be idolizing a figure who made statements such as “a religion that proceeds from the principle that one should love his enemies, may not kill, and

must offer the left cheek when struck on the right one, is not suitable for a manly doctrine of

defending one’s Fatherland. Christianity is in fact a doctrine of decay. For a modern person it

deserves only intellectual disdain.”5

Our true allegiance should be to Christ, not stopping worldly pain or even strictly reacting to

modern evils. We must “test the spirits” as scripture says and internalize the reality that “every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.” (1 John 4:3) There ought to be no room for leaders who scratch the current itch but are wholly unChristlike in their words, actions, and intentions. There is nothing admirable in evil regardless of the political expedience.

“(Love) does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” (1 Corinthians 13:6) 

1a. Alfred Rosenberg, diary entry for April 9, 1941, in Alfred Rosenberg Diary, 531,
http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14; accessed January 22, 2014.
1b. Goebbels, diary entry for April 8, 1941, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, pa rt I:
Aufzeichnungen 1923– 1941, vol. 9: Dezember 1940–Juli 1941 (Munich K. G. Saur, 1998), 234
2.a Alfred Rosenberg, diary, entry for December 14, 1941, 625, accessed January 22, 2014
http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14.
2.b Goebbels, diary entry for December 13, 1941, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich,
part II: Diktate 1941–1945, vol. 2: Oktober–Dezember 1941 (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1996), 498–500.
3. Goebbels, diary entry for January 5, 1937, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, part
I: Aufzeichnungen 1923– 1941, vol. 3/II: März 1936–Februar 1937 (Munich: K. G. Saur, 2001), 316.insol
4. Hitler, monologue on April 4, 1942, in Hitlers Tischgespräche, 184
5a. Goebbels, diary entry on December 14, 1941, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich,
part II: Diktate 1941–1945, vol. 2: Oktober–Dezember 1941 (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1996), 506;
5b. Rosenberg recorded the same point in his entry for December 14, 1941, in Alfred Rosenberg Diaries, 625 –
27, http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14;