Is hitler in hell?

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Of course He does. We, however, are not God. God has not seen fit to inform His Church regarding whether anyone’s soul is in Hell, let alone who those might be.
 
Hopefully he isn’t so say a prayer for him if you’ve got a moment. If he’s in Purgatory, it’ll help him. If he’s not, then it’ll go to someone who can be helped.
 
That is essentially none of our business-it is God’s business. The Church teaches there is a hell, and people can go there if they do not repent of their sins, but that is all they say. Who is there is something God chose not to reveal, and we cannot know. Speculation, therefore, is something we should not engage in.
 
I agree with those who have said that we cannot possibly know. However, I think that there is a 99.999% chance that he is.
 
DaveBj said:
I agree with those who have said that we cannot possibly know. However, I think that there is a 99.999% chance that he is.
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Maybe so, but what are the chances of a human being rising from the dead? God seems to be in the “unlikely” business.
 
juno24 said:
Of course He does. We, however, are not God. God has not seen fit to inform His Church regarding whether anyone’s soul is in Hell, let alone who those might be.
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and I think it probably has something to do with the fact that we most likely wouldn’t be able to handle the knowledge.

sure, we can try to speculate about hitler is some weird detached way, but what about your mom or dad, grandma? that child you lost? is that something we really would want to know?

seriously, humans have a hard enough time trying to deal with death, I think this sort of information would drive a great many people to despair.

pray, and leave the rest to the only one who really controls all of this
 
I voted very likely in the poll…but only God knows a person’s heart.

Hitler could have repented before he died, of all the murders he ordered …but it had to be true repentance.

It is only known by God.
 
Of course I don’t know either, but find it an interesting question.

I imagine it like this, keeping in mind while I imagine that it’s just imagining.

Perhaps when we die we are liberated from our self centered “me” focus, and thus are able to stand back and experience our life through the impact it had on others. We are looking through their eyes now instead of our own.

A person like Hitler may be spending quite a long time at this operation, given how many people he impacted. And it’s probably not going to be fun to experience his former self the way so many others did. It may feel very much like hell to him while he’s going through it, just as it sometimes does to us when we pop out of selfishness and realize that we’ve hurt someone we love.

I like to think that once a person has paid the price for their mistakes in this way, once they’ve seen the circumstances of their life from all perspectives, they melt back in to the God from where they came. Personally, just one view, I can’t reconcile a loving God and eternal punishment.

I’m not claiming any of this is true, and am happy to agree that I have no idea what the reality is. I’m just sharing that this is how it feels to me.
 
CB_Catholic said:
That is essentially none of our business-it is God’s business. The Church teaches there is a hell, and people can go there if they do not repent of their sins, but that is all they say. Who is there is something God chose not to reveal, and we cannot know. Speculation, therefore, is something we should not engage in.
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👍
 
TheTrinitySaves said:
Is Hitler in hell?
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That is not for us to know. That’s knowledge only God has. It is quite possible that in the very last second of his life, as the cyanide was killing him and the bullet was penetrating his brain, that he could have had a moment of perfect contrition and asked God forgiveness for his manifold grave sins for having offended him so deeply.

Then again, he could have gone to his death cursing the Jews for all we know.

All I know is what Ven. Fulton Sheen said – that there will be three surprises for those who attain heaven:
  1. That they will see some of those whom they thought would never be there.
  2. That some of those whom they thought would be there aren’t.
  3. That they themselves are there.
 
Pat_Payne said:
That is not for us to know. That’s knowledge only God has. It is quite possible that in the very last second of his life, as the cyanide was killing him and the bullet was penetrating his brain, that he could have had a moment of perfect contrition and asked God forgiveness for his manifold grave sins for having offended him so deeply.

Then again, he could have gone to his death cursing the Jews for all we know.

All I know is what Ven. Fulton Sheen said – that there will be three surprises for those who attain heaven:

1. That they will see some of those whom they thought would never be there.
2. That some of those whom they thought would be there aren’t.
3. That they themselves are there.
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Beat me to it!
 
Pat_Payne said:
That is not for us to know. That’s knowledge only God has. It is quite possible that in the very last second of his life, as the cyanide was killing him and the bullet was penetrating his brain, that he could have had a moment of perfect contrition and asked God forgiveness for his manifold grave sins for having offended him so deeply.

Then again, he could have gone to his death cursing the Jews for all we know.

All I know is what Ven. Fulton Sheen said – that there will be three surprises for those who attain heaven:
  1. That they will see some of those whom they thought would never be there.
  2. That some of those whom they thought would be there aren’t.
  3. That they themselves are there.
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A fourth surprise for some or many will be that there is a heaven at all. As to Hitler, I would think that if any person is in hell, he would be that person. But, as most have stated, we cannot know for certain, nor should we speculate or preoccupy our time wondering about it.
 
Ormond said:
Of course I don’t know either, but find it an interesting question.

I imagine it like this, keeping in mind while I imagine that it’s just imagining.

Perhaps when we die we are liberated from our self centered “me” focus, and thus are able to stand back and experience our life through the impact it had on others. We are looking through their eyes now instead of our own.

A person like Hitler may be spending quite a long time at this operation, given how many people he impacted. And it’s probably not going to be fun to experience his former self the way so many others did. It may feel very much like hell to him while he’s going through it, just as it sometimes does to us when we pop out of selfishness and realize that we’ve hurt someone we love.

I like to think that once a person has paid the price for their mistakes in this way, once they’ve seen the circumstances of their life from all perspectives, they melt back in to the God from where they came. Personally, just one view, I can’t reconcile a loving God and eternal punishment.

I’m not claiming any of this is true, and am happy to agree that I have no idea what the reality is. I’m just sharing that this is how it feels to me.
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Kind of sounds like a little like purgatory 🙂
 
Pat_Payne said:
That is not for us to know. That’s knowledge only God has. It is quite possible that in the very last second of his life, as the cyanide was killing him and the bullet was penetrating his brain, that he could have had a moment of perfect contrition and asked God forgiveness for his manifold grave sins for having offended him so deeply.

Then again, he could have gone to his death cursing the Jews for all we know.

All I know is what Ven. Fulton Sheen said – that there will be three surprises for those who attain heaven:
  1. That they will see some of those whom they thought would never be there.
  2. That some of those whom they thought would be there aren’t.
  3. That they themselves are there.
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Thank you for the Bishop Sheen quote. 😃
 
Pat_Payne said:
That is not for us to know. That’s knowledge only God has. It is quite possible that in the very last second of his life, as the cyanide was killing him and the bullet was penetrating his brain, that he could have had a moment of perfect contrition and asked God forgiveness for his manifold grave sins for having offended him so deeply.

Then again, he could have gone to his death cursing the Jews for all we know.

All I know is what Ven. Fulton Sheen said – that there will be three surprises for those who attain heaven:
  1. That they will see some of those whom they thought would never be there.
  2. That some of those whom they thought would be there aren’t.
  3. That they themselves are there.
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I think this sums it up beautifully. 👍

The only man of whom there is even a Patristic tradition of being in Hell is Judas - and even there, the Church has never seen it necessary to make a dogmatic pronunciation on the topic. The old phrase “God knows!” is perfectly apt here.
 
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