Weikart (who has also written on the tendentious Trump-Hitler comparisons) and asked him if he would provide me a statement or two for this column. I shared the article about Debra Messing’s ignorant tweet with Dr. Hitler even denied that Jesus was Jewish. Hitler denied that Jesus did miracles, that He was divine, that His death was anything but martyrdom, and that He rose from the dead. This is just a smattering of anti-Bible examples found in Weikart’s book, showing that Hitler had no tolerance for Christianity (although he sometimes hid that antipathy for political purposes).

“Hitler harshly castigated Christianity for not supporting his eugenics and racial ideology.”.

“Many SS members followed Himmler’s example and encouragement to withdraw from the churches, and Hitler lauded them for their anti-church attitude.”.

The “Fuhrer” declared, “The idiocy of the Christian doctrine of salvation is for our time completely unusable….That even today one views the Christian doctrine of salvation as giving direction through a difficult life is completely incomprehensible.”.

It would have been better, he stated, if the Bible had remained only in Latin, rather than causing mental disorders and delusions.”

“Hitler lamented that the Bible had been translated into German, because this made Jewish doctrines readily available to the German people.

According to Hitler, religious people like the Finns, who during long winters seek their religion in the Bible ‘must become mentally crippled’ and fall into ‘religious delusion.’”

“He regretted that Finnish people’s religiosity was based on the Bible because it was permeated with Jewishness.

“He saw the Old Testament as the antithesis of everything he stood for.”.

“Since Hitler was a radical anti-Semite, his characterization of Christianity as a Jewish plot was about as harsh an indictment as he could bring against Christianity.”.

Just a few quotes from Weikart’s book on Hitler and the Bible show how ignorant Messing’s tweet was, not to mention deceptive. What was Hitler’s religion? Short answer: Nature red with tooth and claw-not the Christian God by a long shot. He also wrote an important book a few years ago called, Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich.

He is perhaps best known for his book, From Darwin to Hitler. One of the best books on Adolf Hitler was written by the history professor and author, Dr. The leader of the Nazi Party rued the day that Christian missionaries ever set foot in his beloved Germany. If there is any book that Hitler did not approve of, it was the Bible. But it’s important to be clear about this. I realize that actors and actresses are not necessarily well-read when it comes to history. Furthermore, putting a Bible in Hitler’s hands is totally incorrect on every front.

Of course, the picture of Hitler holding a Bible is a total fake. She had the caption: “A dog whistle to white nationalists and Nazis.” She also declared, “This is no accident!”

church that rioters had set afire.Īctress Debra Messing ( Will and Grace) then sent out a tweet, in which she showed Trump with the Bible and next to it she juxtaposed a picture of Hitler supposedly holding a Bible. Last week, during some of the race-related protests, President Trump famously held up a Bible in one hand outside of an historic D.C.

Hitler holding a bible