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FIRST, THEY CAME FOR THE TRUTH (Fr. Martin Niemoeller was a phony)
Best Writers ^ | 17 June 2004 | Michael Shaw

Posted on 06/18/2004 12:59:32 PM PDT by mrustow

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If this guy is right, another craven image was just smashed. (Granted, the writer is a Catholic, so he is generally fond of craven images ...)
1 posted on 06/18/2004 12:59:33 PM PDT by mrustow
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Incoming!


2 posted on 06/18/2004 1:04:02 PM PDT by mrustow
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Heads up!


3 posted on 06/18/2004 1:05:10 PM PDT by mrustow
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Quote flagged for bigotry:

(Granted, the writer is a Catholic, so he is generally fond of craven images ...)

4 posted on 06/18/2004 1:05:15 PM PDT by Petronski (Ronald Reagan: 1015 electoral votes.)
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Did you mean to say "graven", or are you bashing catholics with your clever little word play?

I'm not catholic myself, mind you, and as a Bapstist I know they are all going to burn in Hell, but still, we can still be nice and not bash 'em, ya know?


5 posted on 06/18/2004 1:08:37 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.)
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Oh, please. Petronski, of all people! Take your irony supplement!


6 posted on 06/18/2004 1:09:46 PM PDT by mrustow
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I'm not catholic myself, mind you, and as a Bapstist I know they are all going to burn in Hell, but still, we can still be nice and not bash 'em, ya know?

Man, I just love an ecumenical Baptist...you got me all teary eyed by your standing up for us Papists there ;-)

7 posted on 06/18/2004 1:11:19 PM PDT by Polycarp IV (PRO-LIFE orthodox Catholic--without exception, without compromise, without apology. Any questions?)
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To: mrustow

While I don't remember exactly where I heard the purported quotation, I am quite sure I heard it in the later '60s or early '70s.


8 posted on 06/18/2004 1:11:33 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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Oh, Lord, not another one of those "Niemöller wasn't really perfect" stories.

Look, nobody is perfect.

9 posted on 06/18/2004 1:12:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus!


10 posted on 06/18/2004 1:13:00 PM PDT by vanmorrison
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????


11 posted on 06/18/2004 1:13:03 PM PDT by dennisw ("Allah FUBAR!")
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Checked my gear: my sarcasmeter jammed. Irony supplements forthcoming.


12 posted on 06/18/2004 1:13:06 PM PDT by Petronski (Ronald Reagan: 1015 electoral votes.)
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Well, ya know, I figure I better speak up for the catholics now (even if ya all are heathens - just kidding) because if I don't, then someday...


... there may be no one to speak up for me...

;0)


13 posted on 06/18/2004 1:13:16 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.)
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Uh oh.. here we go LOL


14 posted on 06/18/2004 1:15:08 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.)
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Did you mean to say "graven", or are you bashing catholics with your clever little word play?

I'm not catholic myself, mind you, and as a Bapstist I know they are all going to burn in Hell, but still, we can still be nice and not bash 'em, ya know?

Graven?! I'm more clever than I even knew. Someone must've been talking on the side of my bad ear. Now you see what kind of Christian I am! (As in, not.)

15 posted on 06/18/2004 1:15:37 PM PDT by mrustow
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Hey, that's "graven". Insult us correctly, please.


16 posted on 06/18/2004 1:15:57 PM PDT by T Minus Four
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"First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist."

Actually, that isn't a bad idea, seeing how communists were the biggest butchers in human history. I propose a revision!

"First they came for the mass murderers, and I did not speak out because I was not a mass murderer."

17 posted on 06/18/2004 1:16:47 PM PDT by Reactionary
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Zing!


18 posted on 06/18/2004 1:18:04 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: Chad Fairbanks

So many heretics, so little firewood.


19 posted on 06/18/2004 1:19:03 PM PDT by nina0113
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this author is so far off base he's not even on the ball diamond. So Niemoeller volunteered to serve in the German Army in 39. That's interesting as he was thrown in prison on July 1, 1937 (the sixth time he had been arrested for preaching fiery sermons against the Nazis) where he remained for the next 7 years. He was finally transferred to a concentration camp and later to northern Italy where he was to be executed within 3 days of the Allies liberation.

Niemoeller publicly confronted Hitler before his arrest and by the time of his liberation was tubercular and nearly dead. And the above mentioned quote was written by his wife and delivered by Niemoeller before Congress in 1967.

This author is simply attempting to smear a brave German pastor.


20 posted on 06/18/2004 1:20:39 PM PDT by bereanway
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