# Hitler, God, and the Bible ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51nQtae-COL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Ray Comfort and Tim LaHaye]] - Full Title: Hitler, God, and the Bible - Category: #books ## Highlights - Individuals in positions of power have the ability to shape and distort the public’s opinion on a variety of life’s most crucial matters, religion included. Even more disturbing is their ability to actually use religion as a tool to captivate, deceive, and manipulate. ([Location 56](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=56)) - Hitler, God, and the Bible is the first book in a series of concise and hopefully insightful exposés on the intersection of icons and faith. ([Location 59](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=59)) - With the upper echelons of society calling for more severe measures every day, my great-grandparents were wise enough to see that the conditions for Jews wouldn’t be improving. ([Location 68](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=68)) - While whole libraries have been written documenting the history of Hitler’s Third Reich, I hope what you read here casts fresh insight into the role of the church and its opponents during that critical point in history. In Hitler, God, and the Bible, we’ll examine the life of Adolf Hitler and the propagandizing of the Christian church in Germany, with a special focus on the roles that God and the Bible played, either genuinely or exploitatively. ([Location 84](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=84)) - He never felt responsible, only entitled—a theme that would have devastating repercussions in the Nazi regime. ([Location 141](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=141)) - Hitler understood well how to manipulate people, and he played on their malleable hearts and minds with exaggerations. ([Location 160](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=160)) - Unlike Alois, Hitler was not born with nothing. He was not taught to work hard and rise above. Though only middle class, he fostered a strong feeling of privilege that left no room for dirt under his fingers or the word “no.” ([Location 167](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=167)) - In Vienna, he relied heavily on appearances over realities. If he could have people believe he was living in the city as a successful artist, to him that was just as important as actually being one. ([Location 188](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=188)) - Secondly, the Vienna years were important as they fostered some of Hitler’s most integral ideologies, effectively shaping his prejudices—particularly against the Jews—as well as his irrational fears. At the time of Hitler’s stay, Vienna was strained at all levels—socially, culturally, and politically. ([Location 198](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=198)) - Without World War I, there wouldn’t have been a Führer or Nazi Germany. ([Location 256](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=256)) - To him it wasn’t possible that the German population clamored for uprisings because of a lack of military success; indeed to him it was the opposite. The unrest at home was the reason the military failed. The complete lack of appreciation and reverence for Germany appalled him, emboldening his long-held views on the effects of Jews, Social Democrats, and Marxism. ([Location 278](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007D2LGOM&location=278))