Adolf Hitler was a Christian

My opponent has taken the contrary position to the claim that 'Adolf Hitler was a Christian'. As the instigator, it is my job to prove that Pro is true. I will do so by using public and private statements of Adolf Hitler, and historical facts about the Nazi regime. #1: Quotes from Mein Kampf - In Volume 1 Chapter 2, Hitler wrote: 'I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.' - In Volume 1 Chapter 5, Hitler wrote: 'Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time. ' - In Volume 1 Chapter 8, Hitler wrote: 'What we have to fight for is the necessary security for the existence and increase of our race and people, the subsistence of its children and the maintenance of our racial stock unmixed, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland; so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.' - In Volume 2 Chapter 1, Hitler wrote: 'Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.' - In Volume 2 Chapter 2, Hitler wrote: 'It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.' - In Volume 2 Chapter 2, Hitler wrote: 'It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him, while millions of members of the highest culture-race must remain in entirely unworthy positions; that it is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs are trained for intellectual professions.' Source: http://www.hitler.org... #2 Quotes from Adolf Hitler - "National Socialism is not a cult-movement-- a movement for worship; it is exclusively a ‘volkic' political doctrine based upon racial principles. In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship... We will not allow mystically- minded occult folk with a passion for exploring the secrets of the world beyond to steal into our Movement. Such folk are not National Socialists, but something else-- in any case something which has nothing to do with us. At the head of our programme there stand no secret surmisings but clear-cut perception and straightforward profession of belief. But since we set as the central point of this perception and of this profession of belief the maintenance and hence the security for the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the maintenance of a divine work and fulfill a divine will-- not in the secret twilight of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the Lord… Our worship is exclusively the cultivation of the natural, and for that reason, because natural, therefore God-willed. Our humility is the unconditional submission before the divine laws of existence so far as they are known to us men." -Adolf Hitler, in Nuremberg on 6 Sept.1938. - '"We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out." -Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Berlin on 24 Oct. 1933 - 'My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows . For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." –Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922' The Catholic Church should not deceive herself: if National Socialism does not succeed in defeating Bolshevism, then Church and Christianity in Europe too are finished. Bolshevism is the mortal enemy of the Church as much as of Fascism. ...Man cannot exist without belief in God. The soldier who for three and four days lies under intense bombardment needs a religious prop. #3 Actions of the Nazi Regime - Adolf Hitler took many far-right social views that sound like something that could be found in the Bible. Adolf Hitler persecuted homosexuals, and they were one of the largest victims of the holocaust. Adolf Hitler even banned abortion, and the death penalty was even given for Aryan women if they were caught. Sources: http://www.homocaust.org..., http://en.wikipedia.org... - Every soldier in the German army wore a belt buckle saying 'God Mit Uns', or 'God With us'. - German troops were often forced to get sprinkled with holy water and listen to a sermon by a Catholic priest before going out on a maneuver. - Hitler's German Worker's Party, the obsolete form of the Nazi Party, had a twenty-five point program. Point #24was: 'We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession..." - The first treaty signed by the Nazi government was with the Vatican Church. To this, Hitler wrote: 'The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is hostile to religion is a lie." -Adolf Hitler, 22 July 1933 # 4 Conclusion The following quotations of public and private quotes, writings, and historical actions prove beyond a doubt that Adolf Hitler was a Christian. In order to further his point, Con must refute all of these quotes, and in their place substitute his own arguments. Thank you for accepting.