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To: freedumb2003; Skooz
Why do I get the feeling someone pitched a slow one across your hit zone? ;)

I'm confident you'd never find an evolutionist here excusing or minimizing, say, Haeckel's antisemitism or racism, just because he was also an important evolutionary zoologist. And if they did I'd be all over them, and wouldn't expect to be alone. I see no need to pull any punches with someone who excuses or minimizes the antisemitism of a figure just because they also happen to have been an important theologian and activist in church history.

268 posted on 08/20/2006 2:42:54 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
I see no need to pull any punches with someone who excuses or minimizes the antisemitism of a figure just because they also happen to have been an important theologian and activist in church history.

I neither excused nor minimized anything. Luther's antisemitism is as sickening as it is puzzling. It has baffled his biographers for centuries. But, it was nonetheless quite real.

That you got any other impression from my post must have been an oversight on your part or an incompletely written post on my part.

282 posted on 08/20/2006 2:59:04 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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