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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (2561)10/26/2000 4:44:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
Re: I think it is necessary to fold this Nazi chapter into the context of history. Jews had been the victims of extermination designs since shortly after the Christian Church was able to rise to the seat of power. The Nazi contribution to this aim was large and efficient...but it was not at all unique.

I'm afraid you've fallen into the usual misapprehension about the historical roots of anti-Semitism. In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church was not --and could not-- be anti-Semitic.... The Catholic Church was actually anti-Judaic, that is, it didn't attempt to exterminate the Jews, it wanted to convert them instead. The modern notion of race was not elaborated until the late XVIIIth century (Carl von Linné, Mendel,...). Remember the novel Jud Suss by Jewish German author Lion Feuchtwanger --it's about a "court Jew", Joseph Suss Oppenheimer who was the banker of a German prince in the early 1700s and whose successful brother converted to Catholicism. The radical change with Nazism is that it raised a religious antagonism to a genetic incompatibility: at least, the Catholic Church offered Jews a way out of their persecution --abjure your faith and everything'll be all right-- whereas Nazism's anti-Semitism rested on a pseudo-scientific eugenism --you can't convert to another DNA!

This trend to enclose human nature within the framework of pure sciences (such as mathematics and physics) is still at work today, especially in the US.... Your craze about IQ-tests, psychology, cybernetics, and genetics somehow exposes your tacit agenda whereby each and every human behavior/pattern comes out of an inborn defect/quality....
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