File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 59


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






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