[Dean's World] Dean: An Astounding Set Of Assumptions

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Posted by Dean:
An Astounding Set Of Assumptions
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1149036168.shtml


   When I read [1]this Eric Muller critique of Benedict XVI's recent
   speech at Auschwitz, I was simply stunned by both its ferocity and by
   the number of assertions he made about what the Pope was "really
   saying" versus what the man actually said.

   I am not in the least bit Jewish that I'm aware of. But I've
   volunteered to help the ZOA, and am a supporter of the Holocaust
   Remembrance Project and generally of Israel.

   Nor do I have any German ancestors that I'm aware of... hmm, no, wait,
   I think my maternal great grandfather came over to the US from Germany
   in the early 1900s. I think. So you know, maybe I've got a profound
   pro-German streak that I'm not aware of. But I don't think so,
   especially since both my paternal grandparents were veterans of World
   War II and were part of the fight against Germany.

   Blah blah, who cares, right? Well after reading Mullers piece, all I
   could say is:

   Eric, there are too serious scholars who say the German people were
   bullied and terrified into following Hitler's gang of criminals. A
   gang of criminals who were never legitimately elected. I can point you
   to academic sources that debunk the "Hitler was elected" nonsense.

   I would also note that Hitler's false promises of prosperity and
   greatness were based on lies that turne out to be murderous,
   totalitarian, and horrific. Some are of the philosophical bent that an
   economic and social system based on lies will wind up making false
   promises it cannot possibly sustain--like the vision of the great,
   glorious, perfect third reich united in socialism and corporatism
   under the all-beneficent state that would cleanse all ugliness and
   badness (read: Jews and other undesirables) from our midsts.

   And I would note that for the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church to
   assert that an attack on the Jewish people is as an attack on
   Christianity itself is a simply extraordinary statement for any
   Christian to make, let alone the patriarch of a church that not so
   long ago (only a few centuries, which is the blink of an eye in Jewish
   history) was hellbent on persecuting Jews or converting them by force.
   Now he says an assault on the Jews is a direct assault on his own
   church, effectively throwing Jews under their direct protection--and
   you're mad about that?

   And how could you ever expect the patron of a church not to take
   special notice of members of his own flock, a Roman Catholic who was
   made a saint because she sacrificed her life to save Jews? He's not to
   take special notice of her memorial thats there? You're going to get
   mad at him for this?

   I'm not Catholic, but oy vey Mr. Muller, get a grip!

   (Via [2]Instapundit.)

References

   1. http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2006/05/the_popes_disas.html
   2. http://instapundit.com/archives/030638.php