I don’t know. There is a lot of disinformation now so I wouldn’t believe it without checking. I describe some tools for that here.

I haven’t studied that subject, so I don’t know. You should perhaps find someone who is a specialist in that period or with Vatican history generally to ask that of.

The rumor is that Candace Owens and her husband belong to a Roman Catholic cult who believed that Pope Pius the 12th is the last legitimate pope who is also called “Hitler’s pope.” Is there any truth to this?

I would like a clarification on the role of the Roman Catholic Church in instigating World War I by promising the Kaiser, the Vatican’s full support and control of Europe.

Overtime the Vatican had lost control of Europe and wanted to regain religious dominancecontrol and caused World War I using Germany as the Vatican’s army. Is there any truth to this?

True, this theory is not well known and not in many history books that I have found. But I do know in World War II the Vatican issued Vatican passports so that the German SS officers could escape to South America, etc.

I still don’t know what caused World War I to tell you the truth.

It’s been a while after reading my mother‘s copy of “Mein Kampf” I remember distinctly that on page 78 Hitler stated “I am on a mission from God…”-and I never forgot that phrase.

And you’re right, Hitler was never an atheist, although the Christians would like you to believe that lie.

Love this column and love Richard carriers research. Absolutely brilliant. And so refreshing in the world full of Christian lies and apologetics.

I think you are confusing “church” with “Christianity.” Christians who are against churches and institutional Christianity (arguably a plurality of first-world Christians now) are not thereby “anti-Christian.” Likewise Protestants who condemn the Pope as the anti-Christ are not “anti-Christian” but anti-Catholic.

I cover this point in the article you are commenting on. So I recommend you actually read the article first. And if that’s insufficient to grasp what I mean, read the actual book I am summarizing. It covers this in detail.

if they aren’t practicing Christianity, they can’t be Christian

That’s a sectarian screedal declaration, not an objective factual distinction.

All Christian sects “aren’t practicing” Christianity while insisting all the others aren’t instead, which include all non-Trinitarian sects, all Mormon sects, Prosperity Gospel, Episcopalians, Anglicans, Catholics, Separatist Catholic Traditionalists, Orthodoxists, Lutherans, Southern Baptists, Methodists both pre and post schism(s), Copts, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Marcionites, Torah-observant Christians (literally the original Christians), the Nigerian Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, the Ku Klux Klan and other Neoconfederate and Nationalist Christianities, Sovereign Citizen Christians, the Gun Church of Pennsylvania, Libertarian Christians, Socialist Christians, Modern Flat Earth Christians, Jonestown Christians, Umbandan Christians, Amish and Mennonite Christians, even Eastern Lightning and the Xiaoping Movement.

If you worship and believe Christ is your savior, you’re a Christian. And if 95% of the apparatus of your belief system derives from historical Christian sects, you’re a mainstream Christian. Nazi Christianity just combines Lutheranism with Non-denominationalism and the same Confederate, Neoconfederate, or Antizionist Christian Nationalisms rampant in America today. It’s pretty mainstream conservative Christianity actually. They fully adopted Luther’s Program Against the Jews point by point. They adopted an anti-Jewish exegesis of the Bible like most medieval and much modern traditionalist Christianities. They adopted free exegesis like all liberal exegetical (antifundamentalist) sects of Christianity today. They adopted Old Earth Creationism (and denounced Young Earth Creationism) like most Christianities do today. They adopted Red Letter Christianity (which also rejected Paul for the Gospels and Acts; as have the Unity Church, some variants of Christian Science, Tolstoyanism, and Swedenborgianism).

And so on.

So special pleading by saying only “your” Christianity is real and Catholic Traditionalists and Red Letters and Jonestown and the original Torah observant Christianity are all fakers is just rhetoric, not reality. Almost zero modern Christians are practicing the real Christianity, which was 100% kosher, not trinitarian, and did not canonize Paul. So if Positive Christianity is “not” real Christianity, no modern Christianity is “real” Christianity.

Except if they aren’t practicing Christianity, they can’t be Christian. The Nazis wanted a new religion based around “National Socialism”. Heck, many Soviets romanticize Balto Slavic pagaism. Science rattled Christianity alot.

Holy shit.

Do I really have to explain why the mythology that these people were dangerous and could become parasites would inspire the idea that “Work makes you free” and justify that they should be slaves, in addition to the general idea that Jews collectively owed Germany reparations?

You’re looking at anti-Semitic rhetoric and then saying that it couldn’t inspire anti-Semitic rhetoric. It’s utterly contemptible. Do better.

In case you need a pat on the head to think correctly: No one is saying all Lutherans are Nazis. A particular offshoot of an idea inspiring something awful doesn’t mean the idea has no other better incarnations. This is pretty obvious. Rather, the point is that Nazi ideology was a metastasizing, a development, of already existing anti-Semitism that was rooted in Lutheran and broad Christian ideas. Like the explicit position the Catholic Church held until very recently that the Jews were collectively guilty of the death of the Messiah.