From:    Bill Carlson
Subject: Christian Or Pagan Naziism?

Well, sorry, but not only was Hitler a Catholic, he was an altar boy, wanted
to be a priest, but was refused.  And although he was into paganism, you'll
note from the following, that he used 'Christian' type speeches to sway the
populas...
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	  "My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior
as a fighter.  It points me to the man who once in loneliness,
surrounded only 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 against
the Jewish poison.
	  "Today, 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 myself 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.  And when I look
on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at
the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness
and misery.
	  "When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in
their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I
would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for
them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn
against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and
exploited."
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	  Adolph Hitler, in a speech delivered April 12, 1922
						  Published in "My New Order"
						  Quoted in "Freethought Today" April 1990
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Just the facts.
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[However, I think most would agree he wasn't a TRUE Christian!