(445)   Thu 16 Oct 97 12:08
By: Caroline Evans
To: John Jancewicz
Re: Hitler Christian?
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John,



JJ>I am not saying there were no Catholic support of Hitler, only that
JJ>any Catholic support of Hitler went against the official Catholic
JJ>position.


    A few months ago I read the biography of the commandant of
Auschwitz. He started out his career in euthanasia units when he
lost some internal squabble with someone and ended up being sent to
one of the units responsible for gassing mental defectives... this
was years before the organized death camps become common. Even he
had some reservations about this assignment and his subsequent
assignment to Auschwitz. It was a german Catholic theologian's
public paper, one that had the tacit approval of the Vatican, that
gave him and other Catholic-Nazis the okay to obey their horrible
orders.  (If you want a better defined reference, let me know and
I'll get the book back out of the library and tell you title ,
author and page references.)

     One event in his life involved his early days in a euthanasia
unit. He was sent to pick up some retarded children for gassing. He
had some small misgivings about killing children, retarded or not.
They were at a Catholic orphanage/hospital and the nurses/nuns knew
that the kids were going to their deaths. They encouraged him by
telling him that the retarded kids would be happier dead... after
all they would be with Jesus and Mother Mary... certainly that would
be better than being alive and retarded. Their counsel helped him to
accept his duties.

    The Catholic church's insistence upon obedience is well known.
It would seem that their fetish for obedience overrules morality and
honor. Their arrogant refusal to admit error (as demonstrated by the
Pope's hundreds-of-years-late admission that Galileo was right and
their half-century late admission that they tacitly aided Fascism
and Naziism) insures that they have enshrined error upon error as
correct and expect all "good" Catholics to blindly accept falsehood
and/or error so long as  the Church says so. They are a source of
darkness and superstition upon this earth. Those who proclaim
themselves Catholics are either the sad victims of childhood
conditioning or willing evil-doers who use the poor deluded victims
for their own purposes, even if that use is as "innocent" as getting
free room and board for telling quaint tales on sunday morning.

    Their insistence that you can "undo" evil by repenting after the
fact seems to allow them to do and/or allow anything however
horrible because they've invented a holy-loophole to avoid any
responsibility for anything bad that they do or fail to do.

    W.C. Fields, a lifelong agnostic/atheist, is said to have been
caught reading the Bible on his deathbed. When asked why he would be
reading a religious book his reply was, "Looking for loopholes." It
would seem that the Catholic Church beat him to it.


    Sincerely,
    Caroline
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