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  • From: Steve Black <sblack AT axionet.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: E.Zuesse
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:22:50 -0700


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,
[snip]
--
Steve Black
Vancouver School of Theology
Vancouver, BC
---

Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right...

-Robert Hunter From SCARLET BEGONIAS



  • Re: E.Zuesse, Jack Kilmon, 09/04/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: E.Zuesse, Paul O. Wendland, 09/04/2002
    • Re: E.Zuesse, Steve Black, 09/04/2002
    • Re: E.Zuesse, Edgar M. Krentz, 09/06/2002

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