 This group helped to shape its tenets, suspicious as they were of both ultramontanism and political Catholicism.In "Mein Kampf", Hitler reassured his readers that both Christian denominations (Catholicism and Protestantism) were valid bases for the German people, provided the churches did not intervene in state affairs.In private Hitler scorned Christianity to his friends, but when out campaigning for power in Germany, he publicly made statements in favour of the religion.