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ADOLF HITLERS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND FANATICISM People often fill that Adolf Hitler believed in Atheism, Humanism, or that his religion involved ancient Nordic pleasure seeker mythology . None of this is true though. Although one of Hitlers henchmen, Alfred Rosenberg , did undertake a campaign of Nordic mythological propaganda, Hitler and most of his men did not believe in it .Many American books, television documentaries, and Sunday sermons that preach of Hitlers "evil" have eliminated Hitlers god for their Christian audiences. One has only to read from his own writing to appreciate that his matinee idol equals the same divinity fudge of the bible.Hitler held many beliefs which not only include God and Providence but also Fate, Social Darwinism, and politics . He stave , unashamedly, about God, fanaticism, idealism, dogma, and the power of propaganda. Hitler always held strong faith in both his convictions . Hitler justified his fight for the German people and against Jews by using divine and Biblical reasoning. One of his most revealing statements makes this quite clear " so today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator* by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.*"Although Hitler did not practice religion in a churchly sense, he certainly believed in the Bibles God. He was brocaded as a Catholic and went to a Catholic school. Hitlers anti-Semitism grew from his Christian education. Christian Germany in his time took for granted the belief that Jews held an inferior military position to German Christians . Jewish hatred did not spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests, and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held a livid hatred for Jewish religion. In his book,"On the Jews and their Lies," Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up un til World War II.