Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:12:15 -0600 From: "Paul S. Rhodes" <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com> Subject: Re: Christians, Murderers of Jews - among others. Lambda C, well, I didn't respond to your very long hectoring on Bess because I thought it was pleonastic piffle. But under all the clever word plays and allusions (showing off your erudition) you really made no arguments, just assertions. For instance, you merely assumed that Bess did what she did to punish herself for enjoying sex, but there is no shred of evidence for this claim in this film. You merely make this claim just because you refuse even to consider Triers' explanation of his own film. You refuse to do so becase you think it is a proven fact that miracles do not happen. Well, I don't think you have proved that. Now, I'll give you the Lateran IV council and the Council of Basel (which you failed to mention). You mentioned the Inquisition, of course, didn't think you would pass that up. But, one question, if the Catholic Church as an institution was so hellbent to kill Jews, why did many Jews throughout history seek Papal protection? Were they just stupid? Okay, now, but that's beside the point. The point I have tried to make is simply this: that if we resolve to put good and evil behind us, then, well, neither the Holocaut nor the Spanish Inquiisition are evil. They are just things to be embraced and affirmed like everything else. _____________________________________________________________________________ My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. --Wilfred Owen Patriotism is the last refuge of a scroundel. --Samuel Johnson Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. --Al Franken --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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