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Who started the Holocaust?
There is no question that the people who started the Holocaust were the Nazis, backed by the vast majority of the German population. However, it’s important to point out…
Us vs. Them. Again.
For almost two thousand years Christianity taught the faithful that Christianity had superseded and replaced Judaism. It taught that God had abrogated his covenant with the…
Is There Anything Wrong With the Christian Tradition?
There is no question that there’s a lot of good in Christianity and that the vast majority of Christians are decent people (and those that are…
The Divided Nations: A Look at the United Nations
A cursory look at the history of the world reveals an unending stream of blood. The greed for power, intolerance and the utter disregard for the…
Going to Mass on Sunday and Killing on Monday
During the Nazi period it was common for ordinary individuals to go about their normal lives, as their Jewish neighbors were harassed, beaten, or worse,…
Why did the Holocaust start?
Quite often people ask: why did the Holocaust start? There are many reasons for the Holocaust, just like there are usually several reasons for any genocide. The…
The Truth About Pope Pius XII: Are We Getting It?
When it comes to the role of the churches and of Pope Pius XII during WWII, the world seems to be divided into three camps: those who are neutral or…
How did the Holocaust start?
The Holocaust started gradually. Centuries of ingrained theological anti-Judaism led to racial antisemitism, which resulted in the desire to eliminate the Jews from…
Pope Pius XII’s Conception of Jews and the Deportation of the Jews of Hungary
By 1944 the Germans and their helpers had already exterminated a large part of all the Jews they would eventually murder…
Aiming at the Heart of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
The basis of the antagonism in the Arab/Israeli conflict is ultimately the Arabs’ seeming inability to accept even a minuscule Jewish state among a…
Appeasement and Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
Sometimes it seems as if Nietzsche was right, and History does indeed return to the same things over and over again in an endless pattern. The variable may…
Attacking Iran: Is there an option?
It seems that a clear parallel can be drawn between the former situation with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and the situation in the 1930s with Adolf Hitler and…