In a message dated 2/4/2004 1:10:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you are implying that I am a denier then you are so very wrong. My point was solely that just becouse a subgroup does something wrong it is not then justified to blame the whole group, and the group's decendents. I hope you are correct but if so your statement wa poorly phrase. I would point out that there is a different scale of action here as well. If in fact some Jews killed Jesus or conspired with the Romans to do it or did not try to stop it that is different. I do not want to offend anyone but to the Jews of the time Jesus was one man. If some jews did have culpability in his death they did not think they were killing god. The holocaust is another matter. The germans who did this (and there can be no doubt that the germans did this) methodically carried out genecide. This was done within the context of german romantic anti-semitism and european anti-semitism in general. In other words there was a lot more guilt spread over a lot more people. However, I will say that I believe it is unhealthy for a society to remember and celebrate when somehting bad happens. If we were for instance to mark the day of 9-11 as a solum holiday, make movies about it for 70 years, and teach our children how we were wronged at that time, we might breed a nation of anti-Arab, anti-Islamics who were stuck in a cycle of their own victimization. It is unhealty for a society to bury and ignore the bad things. One does not have to take the lesson from 9/11 that arabs or muslims are bad. Only that terrorism is bad and circumstances and creeds that breed terrorism are bad. Sometimes forgeting (and forgiving) IS the choice with wisdom Forgive yes, forget no . _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
