Corpus-Paul

[Steve Black <sblack AT axionet.com>]

This is all rather off topic of this list don't you think?


> Paul & Jack
>  >
> >  In "Concerning the Jews and Their Lies", 1543,  Luther says: "venomous
> >  beasts, vipers, disgusting scum, canders, devils incarnate. Their private
> >  houses must be destroyed and devastated, they could be lodged in stables.
> >  Let the magistrates burn their synagogues and let whatever escapes be
> >  covered with sand and mud. Let them force to work, and if this avails
> >  nothing, we will be compelled to expel them like dogs in order
> >  not to expose
> >  ourselves to incurring divine wrath and eternal damnation from
> >  the Jews and
> >  their lies."   This one one of the founding keystones of the
> >  Holocaust in a
> >  Lutheran nation.  Even the Lutheran church apologizes for it.  What do you
> >  wish done? Change history?  Would that we could.
>
> I do not justify this act of spleen written by a discouraged old man.
> Luther, in my view, should have known better.  The idea of it being one of
> the founding keystones of the Holocaust is,
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Steve Black
Vancouver School of Theology
Vancouver, BC
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in the strangest of places if you look at it right...

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