Considering he took only the wrong lessons from Nietzsche, who fundamentally thought Christianity was a kind of slave-mentality moral framework, it's not a surprise that Hitler wouldn't like Christianity.
Heck, his biggest real electoral threat came from German Catholics.
If he had tried to openly remove Christianity from all of Germany (rather than subverting it into the Nazi religion), he would have been seen as too similar to the Communists.
It is interesting to me that although the Catholics never posed a big problem in Italy, and the Catholics even joined with the Fascists in Spain (even forming Falangism), it seems like National Socialism violated something in the Catholic germans' principles.
Fundamentally, I think that unless a Socialist makes space for Catholicism, it's just going to be treated as a rival religion.
Considering he took only the wrong lessons from Nietzsche, who fundamentally thought Christianity was a kind of slave-mentality moral framework, it's not a surprise that Hitler wouldn't like Christianity.
Heck, his biggest real electoral threat came from German Catholics.
If he had tried to openly remove Christianity from all of Germany (rather than subverting it into the Nazi religion), he would have been seen as too similar to the Communists.
It is interesting to me that although the Catholics never posed a big problem in Italy, and the Catholics even joined with the Fascists in Spain (even forming Falangism), it seems like National Socialism violated something in the Catholic germans' principles.
Fundamentally, I think that unless a Socialist makes space for Catholicism, it's just going to be treated as a rival religion.