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laspada

Pacifist Christian, concerned world citizen.

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    • laspada June 25, 2010 at 4:23 pm with 2 replies

      To Kathleen; Actually, I don't want to open up a Holocaust can 'o' worms here, but the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis has now been revised. If you go to Auchwitz today there is a sign at the front gate telling you that that 1.1 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during WW2. The 6 million number was bumped up from 4 million, by the Russians - years after the war - but lowered to 1.1 million sometime in the '80's or '90's, as the 6 million number was found to be mathematically impossible. However, there is a terrible fear of being attacked, labeled an anti-semitic, and ruined for any attempt at doing any real discovery in this story. Regardless of whether it was just 1, or 20 million, it is one of the permanent stains on humanity as a whole, and if an event like that happening to your people cannot cause you to reach for new heights of human compassion, then the human species is doomed to self-destruction, and it becomes clearer that there are some select people who have made a business of killing, and stories like this one do little more than remind us of that fact.
      I, too have always wondered why the entire portion of the suffering at these camps has been awarded to the Jewish victims. There were an equal number of non-Jews that went through the same abuse, many of them for having spoken up on a Jewish family's behalf.
      We need to stop measuring our validity to exist by how much suffering we or our ancestors have endured. We all have an equal stake in the world's health - mental and physical - and we all have an equal right to enjoy its beauty. We need to stop acting like 3 year olds in a sandbox, and start acting like we ARE an intelligent life in this universe. Obviously, if people really wanted to achieve peace and see an end to needless death and destruction, it would be a relatively simple thing to negotiate. There's too much money to be made by behaving like a teenager with penis envy, lashing out at anyone who does not bow down and worship Wall St.

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