Haven’t heard that quote before, but I’m skeptical of it’s legitimacy. I value things like this;
more than a single quote that he may or may not have said.
Here’s one of the many quotes that contradict the one you’ve posted; “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity … in fact our movement is Christian.”
Look at this with an open mind, please.
Even if Hitler wasn’t a Christian, the overwhelming majority of people who committed his atrocities for him were. And if that’s the case, then I could have just as easily said;
Do you? The homogenous group of Christians known as we believes in loving everyone, even their enemies? Maybe you personally do, but these guys don’t;
Here was where I planned to introduce Communism with pictures of the Red Army and The League of Militant Atheists.
And while I can see the display of the KKK, as these men justified their evil with religion, the Nazis were evil due to their devotion to the state, and some of them happened to be religious. There were atheists among the Nazis as well. And for all the diverse and contradictory quotes, the infallible Wikipedia tells us that most scholars believed it was Hitler’s intent to eradicate Christianity from the Third Reich ultimately.
Looks like my Nazi picture got scaled down, that’s too bad. When I made that claim I was more sure that Hitler was a Catholic/Christian… whatever, but MFM’s quote was interesting. I’m still skeptical of it’s legitimacy, but I have reconsidered whether Hitler was a Christian for political reasons, or it was his true belief.
I’m not sure what’s so bad about Wikipedia, though. It’s good as a resource for finding better sources. All those little bracketed numbers are other sources that you can look through, and Wikipedia is more of a repository of that information.