Well, momma is wrong again. Hitler thought he was sent by “god” to clean up the world. As far as Nazi Christianity went, Hitler was the biggest Nazi Christian out of all of them.
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Thanks for that image, I used it along with some stuff from above.
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Nazi Christianity by definition is called Positive Christianity. While most Christians hypocritically claim Hitler was not a Christian. He still was. It’s just the version of Christianity he was that they don’t agree with.
Positive Christianity (German: positives Christentum ) was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity. Adolf Hitler used the term in point 24[a] of the 1920 Nazi Party Platform, stating: “the Party as such represents the viewpoint of Positive Christianity without binding itself to any particular denomination”.[3] The Nazi movement had been hostile to Germany’s established churches.[4][5] The new Nazi idea of Positive Christianity allayed the fears of Germany’s Christian majority by implying that the Nazi movement was not anti-Christian.[6] That said, in 1937, Hans Kerrl, the Reich Minister for Church Affairs, explained that “Positive Christianity” was not “dependent upon the Apostle’s Creed”, nor was it dependent on “faith in Christ as the son of God”, upon which Christianity relied, rather, it was represented by the Nazi Party: “The Führer is the herald of a new revelation”, he said.[7] Hitler’s public presentation of Positive Christianity as a traditional Christian faith differed. Despite Hitler’s insistence on a unified peace with the Christian churches, to accord with Nazi antisemitism, Positive Christianity advocates also sought to distance themselves from the Jewish origins of Christ and the Christian Bible.[4][5] Based on such elements, most of Positive Christianity separated itself from traditional Nicene Christianity and as a result, it is in general considered apostate by all mainstream Trinitarian Christian churches, regardless of whether they are Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant.
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For me; a Christian is anyone who says they are Christian. The Nazis self identified as Christian. Case closed 
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It’s more like the lack of a clear indicator of humour when lacking body language and intonation. When it comes to things like the Holocaust, you should be careful with humour and sarcasm, ref. Poe’s law;
without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
Besides, in my book, when it comes to such a sensitive and serious subject like the Holocaust, there is not much room for joking around. So when you do joke around on such a sensitive and serious subject, chave Poe’s law in mind.
Now, remark that I’m not saying that you cannot joke about it, but rather that you think before you post.
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I did and I still think it’s obvious. I will, however, consider this in future posts.
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Talking of which I was in Amsterdam on a stag weekend recently, and have to ask, how the fuck did it take the Germans so long to find Anne Frank’s house? There’s got to be a sign in every fucking street?
…I’ll get me coat…
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LOL. And in a similar vein…
I think humour is whatever you want and, although I understand one can aim to deliberately offend, offence is taken not given. In fact I’ve often wondered if humour is something that evolved to allow our enlarged brains to deal with terrible things.
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Fuck me, they were lucky… 
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Yeah, but despite the luck, I think it must have been a bad day at work.
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I hear that, fucking dust gets everywhere… 
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Meanwhile, another interesting insight is provided by Hitler’s Speeches: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects And Edited By Norman H. Baynes (two volumes). For some reason best known to the publishers, the original was printed on green paper, and thus, the PDF version I have is similarly presented, consisting of scans of the original two volumes.
In particular, I draw everyone’s attention to this excerpt thereof, the screenshot being presented below:
It makes for interesting reading, does it not?
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It does although I’d interpret that as not (except by implication, the use of the word “chuirch” I suppose) specifically saying they were Christian, more anti-atheist.
I’ll keep a copy of the image.
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Yep! Well found.
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