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To: Zoltan! who wrote (979)10/29/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 3246
 
Zoltan, I already indicated in my first post nominating Schweitzer that I knew he was not "sinless", and cited his racist attitudes (towards the very people he worked so hard to help) as proof of that. At the time he voiced them, such attitudes were hardly unusual.

I also nominated Martin Luther King. Some people would insist that his womanizing should disqualify him. Should it?

Ater thinking it over a second time, I guess I would agree that views with potentially harmful consequences (such as Schweitzer's views on blacks) undermine the claim to sainthood more than purely personal failings. But that did not prevent the Russian Orthodox Church, for example, from canonizing at least one anti-Semite (e.g., St. John of Kronstadt).
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