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26 Jun 2005 06:18:07 PM |
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No Apologies, Senator Durbin |
No Apologies, Senator Durbin
by Sheldon Drobny
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0625-22.htm
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Senator Durbin would never accuse our soldiers of being Nazis nor would he
have ever defamed the 6,000,000 Jews that died in the Holocaust. Just as
holocaust is a generic word, it is now capitalized to reflect the World War
II phenomenon. But could we not describe the Armenian massacre as a
holocaust without disparaging the memory of the 6,000,000 Jews that died in
the Nazi genocide? Yet, Christian fundamentalists who constantly exploit
the Jewish Holocaust for their advantage soundly criticized Durbin. The
hypocrisy of Christian extreme fundamentalism is that it is the very
teachings of the Passion stories of the New Testament that created 2,000
years of Christian anti-Judaism which culminated in the Nazi version of
pseudo-Darwinian anti-Semitism. Many on the extreme Right claim that the
Third Reich was not a theocracy. The fact is that the constitution of the
Third Reich did have only one legal religion named in it. It was called The
National Reich Church and it exploited the inherent anti-Judaism of the
Passion stories. The actual word hypocrite is defined in The New Testament
in Matthew 7: “Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own
eyes.” “The man who finds fault with another for sin, while he is more
guilty, is a hypocrite.”
Seventy to eighty percent of American Jews vote Democratic. I believe that
most of that percentage had no problem with the quotes used by Senator
Durbin. I would bet that the Jews that were offended by his remarks came
from the highly political minority of Jews who stand beside these Christian
fundamentalists. They make the same mistake that the German Jews made in
the 1930s when they believed that their native country would not turn
against them. That is a lesson in history that these American Jews may have
forgotten.
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| User: "Dana" |
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| Title: Re: No Apologies, Senator Durbin |
26 Jun 2005 07:41:00 PM |
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<buckeye-ELO@nosmap.net> wrote in message
news:tastb151v0dijhte8gtki3l5476p50njag@4ax.com...
No Apologies, Senator Durbin
Senator Durbin would never accuse our soldiers of being Nazis
But he did. And was called on the carpet for it.
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| User: "Jeff Welch" |
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| Title: Re: No Apologies, Senator Durbin |
27 Jun 2005 05:44:37 AM |
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"Dana" <whoya@whoya.com> wrote in message
news:11bu12eq19in04e@corp.supernews.com...
Senator Durbin would never accuse our soldiers of being Nazis
But he did.
No he didn't you lying right-wing *****.
-Jeff
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