Right-wing revisionism: Nazis planned to exterminate Christianity after finishing off the Jews

[LBJDemocrat]

"Hitler's war against the Jews was merely a prelude to the war he planned to wage against Christianity." http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/bruce_walkers_the_swastika_aga_1.html

The right in this country wants to pat themselves on the back, and this is the latest talking point in a long campaign to associate Adolf Hitler with the left. I guess it slipped their mind that Naziism was an extreme ethnic-nationalist movement and that Jews were targeted for their ancestry, not their religion. Not that this drivel warrants a refutation.

[hedgehog]

1. I think that is accurate, but so what? How does this prove that Hitler was a Leftist?

[CJCRANE]

2. "The religion of the Nazis was much close to Islam or Hinduism".

That sentence tells me the author doesn't know what he's talking about. Islam and Hinduism are polar opposites.

It's just like the wingnuts who say Obama is a socialist and a fascist, or a muslim and a zionist.

[qazplm]

4. the religion of the NAZIs was closer

to crazy cult thoughts pulling from Norse mythology to Christianity to whatever was floating in the drug addled mind of Hitler and his fellow loons.

[rockymountaindem]

3. To be fair, Hitler did plan to marginalize religion mostly out of existance

Although it wasn't like he was going to gas all the Christians. That would leave him with nothing. However, the role of religion in public life was supposed to be whittled down to nothing after Germany was victorious. There was to be no room for anything except the National Socialist state.

[IDFbunny]

5. Hitler hated ALL jews including Christ

Christians are rightly upset when Hitler is referred to as one of their own. Hitler had no use "for that Jewish religion" and he meant Christianity. The swastika is a pagan icon.

Now Ill go read the article to see if it said anything different.

[cali]

6. This isn't about whether Hitler also hated Christians

It's about the wingnut right's dishonest and pathetic attempt to paint Hitler as a leftist.

[IDFbunny]

7. Okay just read it

He was obviously and extreme nationalist. The fact that he nationalized health care and education and nationalized industries to build autobahns and other public works doesnt' by itself make him a socialist either, he still took care of his cronies.