Posted on 04/20/2005 1:38:35 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
I've read his official biography. Does that count?
People "deserted" the German army in 1945 because Gen. Patton and men like my grandfather were breathing down their throats from the West while the Russians were waiting for them on the East.
People change. That's a better line of reasoning than to deny the past outright. That's dishonest.
The town where John Paul II was born was part of Germany when he was born.
Read more history/geography books.
I wish him well. I hope he can stop the sexual abuse of children within his church.
All I can tell you was going into Hitler youth wasn't his idea or the idea of many folks back then. When you figure most had to or have their families tortured or killed, it was hell.
I wish him well to. He's going to piss tons of people off who lean towards being heathens, because he is very traditional.
When it comes to hurting children, I am in favor of the "it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea" approach.
Sad that a Pope couldn't be found among them who had not been a member of the Hitler Youth.
Yes, so true and so sad.
I spoke to several Catholic friends about the new pope's past in the Hitler Youth, and both of them were horrified at this selection. "There will be a split in the church" one said.
Then, my friend started to cry, remembering the horror her family went through in Cuba in late 60's. Her uncle and aunt murdered, her family given only 24 hours to escape with nothing, no money, no property.
Her family was very wealthy, but they lost everything with the rise of Castro's regime.
This young girl, had only one coast, and one pair of socks. Her grandmother washed those socks every night for 3 years, while they lived in their new home in America, and the father desperately tried to save money to start new.
Tragically, his hand was severed in a work accident and although he had managed to build some wealth, he went insane. The years of torture, seeing his family killed, his life ruined, never seeing other members of his family again, all tumbled upon his soul.
The EVIL of tyrants is not relieved by freedom. The hell of the abuse lives long in the minds and souls of all those who suffered.
Hitler, like Castro, like Saddam were evil, wicked men.
Accepting anything and anyone from these regimes with open arms is spitting in the faces of those who still live, those who still suffer the wounds that will never heal.
The world does not owe this new Pope a crown.
The world owes respect to all those who have suffered more than we have suffered. We owe our brothers and sisters love and protection from all memories of the past.
If we forget, then their suffering accomplished nothing good for mankind at all.
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