Hitler was NOT an Atheist and Favored Christian Ideolgy.

I hope the audience will enjoy reading it as much as I'm sure both he and I enjoyed debating it. PRO begins his final rebuttal by questioning, "if he [Hitler] was was cherry-picking from religions, why then did he not cherry-pick from the religion of Japan and from Islam? " p1. As I have already shown in my First Argument, I provided a sourced quote where Hitler praised both Islam and Japanese nationalism, citing these religions would be much more compatible with his ideologies and the Reich. He even expressed jealousy for "having the wrong religion. " PRO postulates, "I submit that the plausible conclusion that he cherry picked is actually evidence of his favor, rather than disfavor of Christian ideologies. " p2. As I have already stated, context is very important. Hitler had to play off the crowd, and like it or not, the German people identified with Christianity. Instead of openly demonizing Christianity, instead he manipulates Christianity to align with his political, philosophical, and ideological beliefs. This way it keeps Hitler free from openly criticizing Christianity, while still marching towards his goals of eradicating his two most identifiable enemies -- Jews and Communists. He USES Christianity as the pretext. PRO asserts, "The two statements would seem to be incompatible, but I submit that Hitler is using Christianity in two different senses. The distinction evident from these quotes is his stance that National Socialism stands on "REAL Christianity. " p3. PRO gives me the argument by conceding to me what I've been saying since the opening debate, that Hitler expressed contradictory views about Christianity. As I stated from the beginning, I in no way challenge the historicity, legitimacy, or veracity of his quotes that praise Christianity. HOWEVER, in light of the numerous quotes I have provided showing Hitler's detest for Christianity only punctuates that Hitler's private quotes trump his public declarations. Who seriously would disagree that politicking is more credible than private beliefs? PRO states that, "It is evident from Hitler's writings that what he considers to be "true" Christianity is something quite different than what most people mean when they say "Christianity. " This point is virtually incontestable. " p4. PRO's entire argument at this point hinges on a No True Scotsman fallacy, no doubt in lieu of all the evidence I have provided to contradict his sentiments. "No true Scotsman is an intentional logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of assertion to tautologically exclude the specific case or others like it. The truth or falsehood of the new claim does not follow from the presence or absence of this fallacy. " [1] In other words, sensing the futility of the debate, PRO shifts the goals to now attack a straw man instead of legitimizing his initial claim. His debate now hinges upon the notion of "true" Christianity (a completely subjective and vacuous sentiment) versus his original claim that Hitler favored Christian ideology. This is how PRO attempts to convolute the debate. He's attempting to muddy the waters, and hope's you aren't paying attention. ==== RE-CLARIFICATION ==== From my opening statement I have consistently asserted that what I must do as CON is establish reasonable doubt. Because of the law of non-contradiction, people cannot hold two opposing views simultaneously and still maintain a cogent and coherent proposition. It has now unassailably been proven that Hitler gave conflicting, contradictory, an inconsistent claims regarding Christianity. [2] ==== NAZISM ==== One thing is for certain, given the insurmountable evidence. Hitler's favored religion was Nazism. The impetus for Hitler's beliefs were not from Christianity, but the other way around. [3] Rather, the impetus for his beliefs stem from his ideologies, and he utilized variants of Christianity to instigate his propositions -- such as Jesus was an Aryan executed by the wiles of the Jewish horde. What grew around his beliefs was a cult-like following, making the National Socialist religion, Nazism, a fringe religion still followed today with cult-like ardor. In essence, Hitler simply borrowed or stole portions of religions or belief to form for himself a Mr. Potato Head religion -- a chimera, a bastardized version of what he referred to on many occasions as, simply, "Providence. " [4] ==== TEXTUAL EVIDENCE ==== All the quotes below are from Hitler in one consolidated source. I've saved the most condemning passages for this final debate [5]: _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "None of the religions of antiquity, no Negroid idolatry, not even the most primitive sects of the Mohammedan, Indian, or Chinese religions has created so many gods and auxiliary deities as the Roman Church. And yet, their choirs join in singing from the Book of Moses: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. But let's drop it; it's too stupid. " _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "There is something very unhealthy about Christianity. A man possessed of a minimum of intelligence who takes the trouble to ponder over these questions has no difficulty in realizing how nonsensical these doctrines of the Church are. For how, he must ask himself, can a man possibly be put on a spit, be roasted and tortured in a hundred other ways when, in the nature of things, his body has no part in the resurrection? And what nonsense it is to aspire to a Heaven to which, according to the Church's own teaching, only those have entry who have made a complete failure of life on earth! " _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "When one examines the Catholic religion closely, one cannot fail to realize that it is an almost incredibly cunning mixture of hypocrisy and business acumen, which trades with consummate skill on the deeply ingrained affection of mankind for the beliefs and superstitions he holds. The pity is that people who reason in this manner appear to forget that the Church does not strive to propagate its teaching by reason and gentle persuasion, but by force and threat. " _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity. " _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ==== CONCLUSION === Given the evidence presented, I have met all of my objectives with overkill, and I have created reasonable doubt. For this reason you must vote CON! ==== SOURCES ==== 1. . http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. . http://en.wikipedia.org... 3. . http://www.adherents.com... 4. . http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org... 5. . http://hitlersdiaries.com...