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Benedict falsely exonerated Germans from their responsibility for the Holocaust by blaming only a "ring of criminals" who "used and abused" the duped and dragooned German people as an "instrument" of destruction. In truth, Germans by and large supported the Jews' persecution, and many of the hundreds of thousands of perpetrators were ordinary Germans who acted willingly. It is false to attribute culpability for the Holocaust wholly or even primarily to a "criminal ring." No German scholar or mainstream politician would today dare put forth Benedict's mythologized account of the past.
Benedict did say correctly that the "rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people." But he then turned the Holocaust into an assault most fundamentally not on Jews but on Christianity itself, by falsely asserting that the ultimate reason the Nazis wanted to kill Jews was "to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith" — meaning that their motivation to kill Jews was because Judaism was the parent religion of Christianity.
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Benedict's historical fabrication to Christianize the Holocaust is also a moral scandal because it obscures the troubling truth about the Catholic Church: Its churches across Europe tacitly and actively participated in the Jews' persecution. Pope Pius XII, the German bishops, French bishops, Polish church leaders and many others, animated by anti-Semitism, supported or called for the persecution of the Jews (though not their slaughter). Some, such as Slovakian church leaders and Croatian priests, actively endorsed or participated in the mass murder.
In this and other ways, Benedict severed and obscured all connection between the Catholic Church, Christianity and the Holocaust, which is a huge step backward from the positions that John Paul II adopted.
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Since Vatican II, the church has forcefully condemned anti-Semitism, even declaring it a sin. Yet Benedict stood in Auschwitz negligently silent.
At length Benedict wondered about where God was. A churchman's question. But he conspicuously failed to ask where the church was. Benedict's appeal to the mysteries of God's ways thus obscured even the most discussed aspects of the church's and Pius XII's conduct during the Holocaust: Why they didn't speak out. Why they didn't do more to help Jews.
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(Daniel Goldhagen no Los Angeles Times; ler na íntegra.)
Benedict falsely exonerated Germans from their responsibility for the Holocaust by blaming only a "ring of criminals" who "used and abused" the duped and dragooned German people as an "instrument" of destruction. In truth, Germans by and large supported the Jews' persecution, and many of the hundreds of thousands of perpetrators were ordinary Germans who acted willingly. It is false to attribute culpability for the Holocaust wholly or even primarily to a "criminal ring." No German scholar or mainstream politician would today dare put forth Benedict's mythologized account of the past.
Benedict did say correctly that the "rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people." But he then turned the Holocaust into an assault most fundamentally not on Jews but on Christianity itself, by falsely asserting that the ultimate reason the Nazis wanted to kill Jews was "to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith" — meaning that their motivation to kill Jews was because Judaism was the parent religion of Christianity.
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(...)
Benedict's historical fabrication to Christianize the Holocaust is also a moral scandal because it obscures the troubling truth about the Catholic Church: Its churches across Europe tacitly and actively participated in the Jews' persecution. Pope Pius XII, the German bishops, French bishops, Polish church leaders and many others, animated by anti-Semitism, supported or called for the persecution of the Jews (though not their slaughter). Some, such as Slovakian church leaders and Croatian priests, actively endorsed or participated in the mass murder.
In this and other ways, Benedict severed and obscured all connection between the Catholic Church, Christianity and the Holocaust, which is a huge step backward from the positions that John Paul II adopted.
(...)
Since Vatican II, the church has forcefully condemned anti-Semitism, even declaring it a sin. Yet Benedict stood in Auschwitz negligently silent.
At length Benedict wondered about where God was. A churchman's question. But he conspicuously failed to ask where the church was. Benedict's appeal to the mysteries of God's ways thus obscured even the most discussed aspects of the church's and Pius XII's conduct during the Holocaust: Why they didn't speak out. Why they didn't do more to help Jews.
(...)»
(Daniel Goldhagen no Los Angeles Times; ler na íntegra.)
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3 comentários :
ricardo:
esta questão fascina-me!
It is false to attribute culpability for the Holocaust wholly or even primarily to a "criminal ring"
o fulcro para mim está numa necessária distinção entre culpa e responsabilidade. A culpa é sempre individual, mesmo que envolva uma enorme massa de indivíduos. negar isto é negar a existência de livre-arbítrio.
a responsabilidade é individual e colectiva, mesmo quando os mecanismos do totalitarismo actuam no sentido de viciar a vontade. mesmo em relação àqueles que se opuseram sempre, há uma responsabilidade moral, porque o genocídio cometido pelos nazis foi feito em nome de um ideal de superioridade do povo alemão, ou seja, em nome do BEM COMUM (repare-se na ironia...)
quanto à ICAR, alinhou nisso, em parte por interesse, mas em parte por comungar de alguma forma dos ideais de superioridade, a saber, por de facto considerar os judeus inferiores.
já a manobra de Ratzinger enquadra-se num processo que está a ter o seu início, de BRANQUEAMENTO DA HISTÓRIA, agora que a última geração de sobreviventes do totalitarismo nazi está a chegar ao fim dos seus dias.
contra isto, só há uma coisa a fazer, que também está ligada com a questão da responsabilidade: Cada um de nós deve assumir individualmente como seu o dever de memória em relação Às vítimas.
cada um de nós que percebemos que estas manobras são reais e que temos a capacidade de perceber o perigo que elas trazem consigo, temos o DEVER de preservar a memória e impedir que o tempo deite um véu sobre a verdade.
Obrigado por uma intervenção excelente, «cãorafeiro»!
RICARDO, ESTE ASSUNTO DIZ-ME MUITO.
o mais triste é que começo a ver o mesmo processo a sewr desencadeado em Portugal.
aproveita-se o facto de que o país está em crise e de que já passaram 32 sobre o 25 de Abril, para branquear a natureza opressiva do regime FASCISTA salazarista, e ao mesmo tempo, para lançar lama sobre a primeira de muitas revoluções deste os anos 70 até à queda do muro de Berlim .
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