True, many of the Nazi ideas adulterated Christianity with Paganistic philosophy, but the core values and stories of Christianity always remained intact.
The NAZIs were, in fact, pagan occultists and race supremacists, highly influenced by evolutionary theory. There is virtually no Christian connection.
There may be some Christians in Europe that supported fascism in general in opposition to communism, but NAZIism had it's own separate identity from, say, Franco's fascism in Spain.
What is a larger and more significant angle though to argue for some Christian support of Hitler is the fact he was voted into office and enjoyed the support of the German people, and undoubtedly some of them were Christians, but it's hard to say to what degree Germans were Christian in the sense of devoutly committed to Jesus Christ. Muslims, for example, would argue that all of Western Europe and the US are Christian, but we know that's not really true. There are a lot of Christians and Christian influences, but to claim our nations and soceities are Christian creates a serious misunderstanding of the nature of these societies. The Muslims would say the Christians have pushed porn on the world, but in reality, it is often the Christians trying to restrict pornography.
A similar thing, imo, occured with Hitler. To claim because many Germans were Christians, that somehow NAZIism is related to Christianity is quite absurd.
One other note: one reason probably Germans were willing to accept someone like Hitler and embrace the NAZIs is simply because they restarted the German economy and war machine, and thus offerred protection from Stalin to the East. It's not clear that if we had communism and Stalin at our doorstep, were weakened after a defeat in war, that we would not ourselves here in America back someone dangerous like Hitler....
Oh I forgot, the lefties think we already have someone like that in the White House...
This message has been edited by randman, 12-15-2005 10:05 PM