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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (214005)	1/2/2002 1:13:25 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We were talking about the relationship between Nazi anti- semitism, involving the systematic extermination of European Jewry (defined by the Nazis as anyone with one grandparent who was a Jew), and the occasional outbreaks of violence due to Christian anti- Judaism. My original comment was that the former was much more virulent than the latter, which I still maintain. By the way,the program of extermination itself was rather secretive, and many Nazis did not even make the pretense of being Christian. Their was no confidence about widespread support. Certainly, many people found what they knew of the Nazi treatment of Jews reprehensible. I could point to the actions of the Danish in defying the use of the Star of David to identify Jews, or, for that matter, the attitudes of the American servicemen who liberated that camps. In a couple of incidents, the commanding officers could not restrain them from the summary execution of Nazis, so furious and horrified were they at what had been done. This is not to say that World War II was a crusade to save the Jews, but rather that millions of Christians shared the outrage of those soldiers. Christianity was not responsible for the Nazis, though it had something to answer for in its own anti- Judaic pronouncements. As for the Southern Baptists, they were formed in response to anti- slavery sentiment on the part of the Baptist Convention. This has nothing to do with the substantive point, that slavery was not a "Christian thing", or even a "religious thing", but a barbaric practice that was made at least somewhat less onerous in the Scriptures......