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Date/Time 29 Dec 2014 4:07:39pm
"Hitler was a Christain.."
Quite apart from the mispelling, let's just say Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer and Traudl Junge all record down Hitler as being rather opposed to Christianity:

Goebbels notes in a diary entry in 1939 a conversation in which Hitler had "expressed his revulsion against Christianity. He wished that the time were ripe for him to be able to openly express that. Christianity had corrupted and infected the entire world of antiquity."

(Inside the Third Reich)

And Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary, said in her memoirs a conversation with Hitler thusly: "Sometimes we also had interesting discussions about the church and the development of the human race. Perhaps its going too far to call them discussions, because he would begin explaining his ideas when some question or remark from one of us had set them off, and we just listened. He was not a member of any church, and thought the Christian religions were outdated, hypocritical institutions that lured people into them. The laws of nature were his religion. He could reconcile his dogma of violence better with nature than with the Christian doctrine of loving your neighbour and your enemy. 'Science isn't yet clear about the origins of humanity,' he once said. 'We are probably the highest stage of development of some mammal which developed from reptiles and moved on to human beings, perhaps by way of the apes. We are a part of creation and children of nature, and the same laws apply to us as to all living creatures. And in nature the law of the struggle for survival has reigned from the first. Everything incapable of life, everything weak is eliminated. Only mankind and above all the church have made it their aim to keep alive the weak, those unfit to live, and people of an inferior kind.'
(Until the final hour p 108)

Besides, how Christian do you think Hitler and the Nazis are when the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal discovered eliminating Christianity was one of their goals?

"Stalin did not commit anything because he was atheist...(Mao) didn't do things because he was an atheist..."
How do you know this? The serial killer Jeffery Dahmer in an 1994 interview describe how atheistic logic works: " If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then wha