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DLW
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Posted 10/20/2003 9:10 AM (GMT -6)

by Costa-Gavras, who also directed Z and Missing.

is about the attempts of a Christian German SS Officer and a RCatholic priest to get the Pope to take a public stand against the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews during WWII.

It is quite sad, but disturbing since it poses the question of what would we do if we were in such a situation.

Can you imagine what the implications would have been if the RCatholic Pope had accepted martyrdom on behalf of the Jews?
dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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