Thread: 10 Things Every American Should Know About WWII

Hitler was never excommunicated as a Catholic, either.

Originally Posted by TheBaschnagelnator

Hitler was never excommunicated as a Catholic, either.

Well, in all fairness, the Catholic Church doesn't excommunicate over things like that (killing lots of people)...its usually reserved for direct interference with the Church and/or its teachings by those of the faith...it's also not punitive, but remedial...its intent is to bring a wayward follower back into the fold....in other words, in excommunicating Hitler, the Church would first have to claim him...which I don't think they really ever did, nor would have wanted to do for obvious reasons...Hitler may be been born into a Catholic family, but by adulthood, by all accounts, he had forsaken the Catholic faith altogether...

Huh, being German, I would have guessed Lutheran...I guess that also disproves the myth of him being a jew. A little research shows he disavoowed the catholic church for a form of christianity that didn't trace itself back to jewish decent(go fig huh )

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

Huh, being German, I would have guessed Lutheran...I guess that also disproves the myth of him being a jew. A little research shows he disavoowed the catholic church for a form of christianity that didn't trace itself back to jewish decent(go fig huh )

Technically, he was Austrian. G'Day Mate!!

Lol.

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Well, in all fairness, the Catholic Church doesn't excommunicate over things like that (killing lots of people)...its usually reserved for direct interference with the Church and/or its teachings by those of the faith...it's also not punitive, but remedial...its intent is to bring a wayward follower back into the fold....in other words, in excommunicating Hitler, the Church would first have to claim him...which I don't think they really ever did, nor would have wanted to do for obvious reasons...Hitler may be been born into a Catholic family, but by adulthood, by all accounts, he had forsaken the Catholic faith altogether...

But that's the thing. At the end of the day, the Catholic Church didn't do much to separate themselves from him or his group, despite what they have said in the following years to justify their outward stance. And had Hitler succeeded, I'm sure they would have had little problem ruling the world from the top of the mountain along side him and Germany. I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but everything about Rome reveals that they had the desire to side with the winning power, WW2/post-WW2.























“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so” [Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941]

"Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jewish question: "As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service." -"The Nazi Persecution of the Churches" by J.S. Conway, Pgs. 25, 26 & 162.

That Chaplain guy sure did get around.

Originally Posted by TheBaschnagelnator

Thats a pretty awesome hat he's wearing.