Hlinkova Garda
11-14-2006, 10:37 PM
Pope John Paul II(novus ordo some-say false Pope) described the Nazis as having "a Godless ideology," this is not how the Nazis presented themselves or how the Catholic Church described the Nazis when they were in power.
The German Catholic Church's Centre Party (Zentrum) did clash with the Nazis in the 1920s, but as Hitler wrote (see quote below) their quarrel was over politics, not Catholic religious teachings, let alone belief in god. I can find no record from the period of Nazi rule of the Catholic Church attacking the Nazis as atheists, perhaps because they weren't. The Nazis themselves claimed they were fighting against atheism, specifically Bolshevist atheism, which they charged was a Jewish-created movement. In attacking the Jews, the Nazis routinely employed Christian symbolism and traditional Christian antisemitic arguments, with which Europeans were familiar.
http://www.tenc.net/vatican/hchurch.jpg
http://emperor.vwh.net/images/salute.jpg
http://www.tenc.net/vatican/ourlady.jpg
http://emperor.vwh.net/images/bishops.jpg
The German Catholic Church's Centre Party (Zentrum) did clash with the Nazis in the 1920s, but as Hitler wrote (see quote below) their quarrel was over politics, not Catholic religious teachings, let alone belief in god. I can find no record from the period of Nazi rule of the Catholic Church attacking the Nazis as atheists, perhaps because they weren't. The Nazis themselves claimed they were fighting against atheism, specifically Bolshevist atheism, which they charged was a Jewish-created movement. In attacking the Jews, the Nazis routinely employed Christian symbolism and traditional Christian antisemitic arguments, with which Europeans were familiar.
http://www.tenc.net/vatican/hchurch.jpg
http://emperor.vwh.net/images/salute.jpg
http://www.tenc.net/vatican/ourlady.jpg
http://emperor.vwh.net/images/bishops.jpg