[net.religion] Ignoring history and Mr. Black

jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (03/23/85)

	It is truly inconceivable that there are people who are trying
to prove that the Holocaust never happened. Not only were six million
Jews exterminated in the death camps, but also millions of Catholics,
Protestants and Gypsies, among others. There are thousands of eye witnesses
to these events still living, on all sides of the tragedy, not to 
mention that the death camps themselves still stand as monuments to our
awful inhumanity to our brethren. How could anyone deny this ?
	Perhaps the good priests and nuns taught me wrong, but I believed
that Christianity stressed love, humility and mercy, toward *everyone*,
not just one's fellow believers. Mr. Black seems to believe in a much
different religion, one that promulgates bigotry, hatred, suspicion
and arrogance. I realise, along with Charles Wingate, that it is impossible
to argue with Mr. Black, but I agree with Rich Rosen that those of us
who know differently must stand up and say something. Many of the
sentiments that underly Mr. Black's messages are sick and twisted. I hope
there are not many more people like him, or we are all in sad shape.
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jcpatilla

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