On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:44:17 EDT, Bemmzim wrote > In a message dated 8/18/2005 3:20:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> For you protestants in the audience; ever take a look at what Luther > said about the jews? I'm not just Protestant, I'm Lutheran... and his attitude was reprehensible. Although he was fighting against corruption in the Vatican, he was also a defender of the church's ideas about authority. His ideas about submitting to authority was used by many German Lutherans to justify obeying the Nazis. But in the Lutheran church, we don't worship Luther, thank goodness. > Do not get me wrong. I am not claiming that protestant groups and > the catholic church are anti-semitic. They certainly are not. I am > not saying that christians today are anti-semitic in the way that > people were in the past. I am saying that to deny history is to > repeat it. My father is best know as Santayana's biographer, so this is a well-loved idea in our family. It seems very hard for Americans to face the reality of the brutality that our country has employed against various ethnic groups. We love our noble principles so much that we seem to focus on them to the exclusion of the actual effects of our policies. The highest principles evaporate when we demonizing any individual or group. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voicemail: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
