From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: Communism, Grundrisse, was Germanism
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 14:58:23 -0700



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Subject: Re: Communism, Grundrisse, was Germanism


>
> In a message dated 5/4/03 3:36:47 PM, borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com writes:
>
> >The RC has not excommunicated Hitler because Hitler was not an RC. Have
> >to be an RC to be excommunicated.
>
> Constantine's Sword, p44:  "We knew enough to contrast Pius XII's silence
in
> relation to Nazism with his forthright condemnations of Communism,
including
> his 1949 excommunication, "at a stroke," of Communist Party members
> everywhere in the world.18  [18. Kung, Hans, Judaism: Between Yesterday
and
> Tomorrow, p256.]

I suspected as much. Being baptized RC nor walking around in a church mean
anything. Now if A. Hitler was a practicing RC, then I would be shocked.

> Yet not even Hitler was ever excommunicated, and it shamed
> us to realize only now that the German dictator died still on the rolls of
> the Roman Catholic Church into which he had been baptized as an infant.19
> [19. One way to account for Hitler's not having been excommunicated is
that
> the Church takes such drastic action to combat "wrong thinking" more than
> "wrong acting." The theologian Bernard J. Lee,S.M., comments, "To some
> extent, it is a function of the western deep story that Arius, Martin
Luther,
> George Tyrrell, and Leonard Feeney were excommunicated, and Hitler was
not."
> But such a distinction assumes that Hitler's actions were not rooted in
> "wrong thinking," and the Church saw no such dichotomy when it came to
> communism. Lee, Jesus and the metaphors of God, p89.]

May RC's were Nazi's to boot.
>
> ...and one wonders, to take Lee's "deep story" functionality, why our man
> heidegger wasn't excommunicated, as all he ever did was think...
> hen
>
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