rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) (08/16/85)
This discussion is getting dazed and confused
so let's recap from where I got in:
1) Mr Martillo suggested a cause and effect relation
between Martin Luther's anti-Semitism and the later
Nazi Genocide against European Jewry.
2) Dubuc and B. Brown made counter arguments that Nazi
thinking was specifically anti-Christian with anti
religious and anti-Christian quotes from the wormy
little corporal himself.
3) Nietzsche's name came up as one of the philosophical
fathers of Nazism.
4) Rosen and Peter argued that Schickelgruber just borrowed
and twisted those good philosophers' ideas...and besides
Nietzsche was perhaps a secret admirer of the Jewish people.
"What we have here is a failure to communicate". - The Work
Camp Warden in Cool Hand Luke.
What Dubuc and Brown were attempting was to break the tie
that Jews seem to make (in my personal experience) between
Nazism and Christianity - i.e. Hitler was a Christian.
By his own words Hitler was not a Christian and he despised
Christianity as weakness and unfit for Germans.
Nietzsche's trancendent superman was the archetype for the
Austrian Addlebrain. Nothing WAS STATED OR IMPLIED that
Nietzsche was an anti-semite or that he taught anti-semitism.
In fact Mr N was a hostile atheist of the kind that we have
seen some of on the net....
Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}