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Hitler saved from drowning at age four by a priest?

So it was an act of god?
 
May seem like a good idea at first for the priest to not save him, but ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?
 

Hmmm...

So from your citation:

Adolf Hitler nearly drowned when he was four years-old but was saved by a local priest, historians have claimed.

Is anyone suggesting that anytime we see a pre-pubescent child in danger of drowning (or other mayhem leading to possible death) we should think "He/she might be the next Hitler" and let them perish?

Humans are not gifted with foreknowledge of the future (we are not born Oracles, thank God), so we have to make our decisions on what is occurring in the present.

Yes, I would save a child drowning at the age of four, regardless of their name. That would be the NOW. Let the future take care of itself.
 
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The story would have made more headlines if it had been a gay transexual rabbi who was communist.

I'm sorry you missed the irony of the post and had to make up something stupid. You do realize this is the history category don't you?

Being half German and having lost a relative to the Hitler's gas chamber because she didn't meet his standards (retarded) I don't find anything about Hitler amusing.
 
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So it was an act of god?

Interpret it anyway you want. I just posted it due to the irony of a priest saving someone that ended up being one of the biggest mass murderers of all time along with the death of millions of others. But then the irony doesn't stop there. The man went on suicide missions in WWI and always came back. And no attempts on his life as the fuhrer were successful.
 
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May seem like a good idea at first for the priest to not save him, but ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?

Never said anything about a good idea. Just thought it was ironic.
 
Hmmm...

So from your citation:



Is anyone suggesting that anytime we see a pre-pubescent child in danger of drowning (or other mayhem leading to possible death) we should think "He/she might be the next Hitler" and let them perish?

Humans are not gifted with foreknowledge of the future (we are not born Oracles, thank God), so we have to make our decisions on what is occurring in the present.

Yes, I would save a child drowning at the age of four, regardless of their name. That would be the NOW. Let the future take care of itself.

Wasn't suggesting anything of the sort. See my pervious posts.
 
God works in mysterious ways? :unsure13:

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The time makes the man, not the other way around. Germany was in a bad place, desperate for anything to rally around, desperate to do anything, even declare war, to win their honor back. If not Hitler, someone else. Him drowning would make no difference.
 
May seem like a good idea at first for the priest to not save him, but ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?

Great observation.

But the little bastard should have drowned just the same.
 
The time makes the man, not the other way around. Germany was in a bad place, desperate for anything to rally around, desperate to do anything, even declare war, to win their honor back. If not Hitler, someone else. Him drowning would make no difference.

Finally an intelligent response! I still think you have to acknowledge the irony of a priest saving him.
 
Great observation.

But the little bastard should have drowned just the same.

That reminds me of this story I once read about a man who went back in time to stop the priest from saving Hitler. Hitler died, but Hitler's parents ended up adopting a new kid instead, and that kid ended up being the new Hitler, so it was like history never changed.
 
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