Hitler Hated Christianity

1. I"m still waiting for my opponent to refute a single claim I just made. Instead, all my opponent has done is further prove his lack of knowledge on historical events in saying: "Your sources are mostly false and untrusted"your arguments don't make sense at all and are completely wrong"I can't understand it" lucky for you, I do understand it. The Hitler quote I cited comes from "Hitler"s Table Talk" [1] which is overwhelmingly accepted and cited by historians like Sir Ian Kershaw (of the university of Sheffield) [2] Sir Richard J. Evans (Regius professor of history at the university of Cambridge) [3] Historian Michael Burleigh (Distinguished research professor in modern history at the University of Cardiff) [4] Historian William L. Shirer (Who"s been cited in scholarly works for over 50 years!) [5] The list goes on.. 2. You completely ignored The"Nuremberg Trials"concerning the Nazi persecution of the churches! "The American"Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner to the CIA) compiled a report entitled "The Nazi Master Plan" which examined the Nazi persecution of the churches and found that the Hitler regime had a plan to subvert and DESTROY German Christianity." [6] 3. You say "Hitler tried to remove clergymen from churches"the reason being is because he wanted to remove them and add clergymen that fit HIS views of Christianity and create his own church under his own rule at that time in Nazi Germany" This is absolute nonsense! Hitler said "So it"s not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the Churches. 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." [7] 4. You claim I said: "you're saying that Hitler was atheist"he was religious he couldn't be an atheist"your arguments weren't backed very well" I never said that, and you just committed a straw man fallacy. 5. You say "Hitler often proclaimed his own Christianity"how important Christianity was to his life" Hitler himself told confidants that his reluctance to make public attacks on the Church was not a matter of principle, but a pragmatic political move. [8] In his private diaries, Joseph Goebbels (Third Reich minister) wrote in April 1941 that though Hitler was "a fierce opponent" of the Vatican and Christianity, "he forbids me to leave the church. For tactical reasons." [9] 6. I was going to write the closing remarks myself but after reading my opponents citations, specifically the 2nd citation (I"m assuming he didn"t read it) this paragraph really stuck out to me" "So if Hitler wasn"t a Christian himself, why did he go to so much trouble to win the support of the Church?"" As one author put it, he knew Christians would interfere with his plans if they were not hoodwinked first. What you won"t hear in history class is that Hitler WASN'T just out to eliminate JEWS: he wanted to get rid of CHRISTIANITY as well." [10] Thank you all! It's been awesome! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org... [6] http://www.nytimes.com... [7] Hitler"s Table Talk, pg 59 [8] Ian Kershaw;"Hitler: a Biography; Norton; 2008 ed; pp. 295"297 [9] Fred Taylor Translation; The Goebbels Diaries 1939"41; Hamish Hamilton Ltd; London; 1982;"ISBN"0-241-10893-4; p.340 [10] http://www.cbn.com...