I don't deny that Christians have fallen pray to pernicious ideologies; I deny that Nazism is a Christian ideology. I am positive that you are intelligent enough to understand the distinction.
I think there's a fairly straight line from acceptance of Christ to supercessionalism, from supercessionalism to anti-Semitism, and from anti-Semitism to Nazi ideology.
Certainly not all Christians do this, but there's no point of doctrine that all Christians agree on anyway. Just because you disagree with Nazi Christians doesn't mean that their beliefs don't fall under the umbrella of Christian thought.
I also deny that Hitler was Christian. It's not "apologetics" to deny untruths peddled by agenda driven anti-Christians.
I think you're wrong, but I think it doesn't really matter: whether Hitler was genuinely Christian himself or whether he was just feigning Christianity, there's no doubt that the vast majority of his followers were Christians and had no problem reconciling their Nazi ideology with their Christian faith.
Edit: Hitler didn't invent anti-Semitism. He tapped into a very long and very Christian tradition of anti-Semitism in Europe in general and in Germany in particular.
Your thinking is no more free than mine; we are both products of our circumstances. Mine has led me to the conclusion that God exists, yours the contrary. And whilst I can respect honest atheism, I have no respect for self-aggrandizing nonsense of those who prattle on about how rational, free thinking and intelligent they are because they are atheists.
"Freethought" is just the term for the group. If you think this casts aspersions on you, I can only hope that you have the same attitude toward Christian churches whose names no less imply that you're wrong, whether it's "Orthodox" (i.e. "true belief"), "Church of Jesus Christ" (i.e. "the church chosen by Christ"), or "Full Gospel" (implying that other churches only use part of the Gospel).
Go Google "freethinker" if you don't know what it means. It's not really a stance on the issue of free will.
But whatever, that isn't the real discussion. As I said to Bob the Unbeliever, it's not that I think any given atheist is a closet Stalinist, it's that atheism is no immunity from pathological ideology. Extremism is not confined to religious creeds. Political creeds can become just as dogmatic and at times, murderous.
Atheism is not a creed. Freethought is. Skepticism is. Secularism is. The fact that I don't believe in any gods is
informed by these positions, but atheism isn't a philosophy in and of itself.
Not openly, but you certainly implied it by lumping all atheists together.
... but if you really do see more in common with Pol Pot, Mao, and me than the mere fact that we disagree with you on one point, please let me know what other positions there are in our supposed common "creed" of atheism.
I even said as much. China isn't what it was under Mao, but it is still an oppressive regime that is explicitly atheist in doctrine.
An "explicitly atheist" regime with state-sanctioned churches.