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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
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- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up? Was: What did Judas be
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:08:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.022547.24574@cs.unca.edu>, kepley@cs.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
- |> >no one could be in any real doubt about what the Nazis intended
- |>
- |> Well, now you're not just convicting the Vatican, but also all those people
- |> who supported the Nazis early (including men like Oswald Spengler), all
- |> of the nations of Europe who cooperated and supported the Nazis because
- |> of their fear of the Bolshevics, and particularly Chamberlain but
- |> also Roosevelt and the Americans who opposed early entry into the war,
- |> as Jew killers. After all, as you point out:
-
- I think you are getting yourself confused. Yes, this does apply
- to people who supported the Nazis. They had Hitler's intentions
- on record. He made no secret of them.
-
- Did other nations "support" Hitler? Would you care to quote either
- Chamberlain or Roosevelt in support of Hitler?
-
- |>
- |> > 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.
- |>
- |> So all these people "wanted the Jews and Atheists killed" as you put
- |> it?
-
- No, you are getting yourself confused again. You really must be
- careful about attributions. I have said nothing like this.
-
- |> The Catholic Church is led by fallible men who make foreign policy
- |> mistakes and have many skeletons in their closets, and they can be
- |> sanctimonious, just like others (I won't mentionany names). But who
- |> hasn't made terrible mistakes, given a thousand years of history and rapidly
- |> changing moral values?
-
- But that's exactly the point! That's all that Churches are. They
- are fallible organizations of no particular worth. So why do they
- try to claim some kind of moral authority?
-
- |> And looking back now with comfortable 20/20 hindsight and high moral
- |> indignation, who did behave correctly during that awful time?
- |> Your accusation that the Catholic Church "wanted" the Jews and Atheists
- |> is revolting.
-
- Except that I didn't say that. If you are going to fly off the
- handle and flame people, at the very least try to flame the right
- person.
-
- It's ironic that someone who wants care to be paid can't even bother
- to match the right quote to the right poster.
-
- jon.
-