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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.messianic,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up? Was: What did Judas be
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:11:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.151154.18933@cs.unca.edu>, kepley@cs.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
- |> >In return, the vatican got 10%(!) of germany's tax money, and a lot of
- |> >dead jews and attheists( russians ) which is undoubtedly what they
- |> >wanted.
- |>
- |> I think this is pretty outrageous, can I insult your mother?
- |> Your hatred is showing....
- |> The Vatican hid and protected Jews from the Nazis. They had an immense fear
- |> of the communists (with good reason) and chose the Nazis as the lesser of
- |> two evils since the Nazis, at least, intended to let the churches survive
- |> under Nazi control whereas the communists were destroying every church they
- |> could get their hands on.
-
- There are at least two problems with this argument. One is that once
- the War on the Eastern Front got started, Stalin began a revival of the
- Orthodox church. Far from destroying churches, he used the patriotic
- fervour of Russian believers to support the war effort.
-
- This is fairly typical in history. Tyrants compete with Churches, but
- use them when there is something to be gained. You would think that
- after two thousand years of thgis kind of thing, the vatican could come
- up with something better than "lesser of two evils". Was there some
- rule that they couldn't denounce the Nazi's *and* the Communists?
-
- The second problem is more serious. The Nazis were not just the
- "lesser of two evils". Their anti-semitic program was on public
- show early on. The elimination of Jews from Germany was in Clause
- 5 of the 1920 Party program. No-one could be in any real doubt
- about what the Nazis intended.
-
- |> What the Vatican did had nothing to do with
- |> the Vatican wanting to kill Jews and Atheists, but if you insist that
- |> it is, why don't you balance this with how many Christians were killed
- |> by the Jewish Atheists of the Soviet Union Bolshevic leadership? Ah...
- |> but that would be politically incorrect. It's okay to be bigoted about
- |> Catholics but not Jews or Atheists.
-
- Well, if anyone here was speaking out in support of the killers of
- christians, that would be a reasonable point, but I don't believe that
- anyone is. Criticising the connection between Hitler and the
- Vatican doesn't make one automatically a big fan of the Kremlin.
-
- For myself, I'm just pointing out that an organization which claims
- to have a lot of moral authority, actually has a history of compromise
- with a great many tyrants.
-
- jon.
-