To: presidio9
Exactly!
Whether or not Hitler tried to exterminate all the Jews is not a matter of faith. It is a matter of history. The pope cannot excommunicate people for ignorance of history.
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6 posted on
01/22/2009 12:31:41 PM PST by
SJackson
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To: AbeLincoln
Whether or not Hitler tried to exterminate all the Jews is not a matter of faith. It is a matter of history. The pope cannot excommunicate people for ignorance of history. Nor will he, they were excommunicated twenty years ago, and it had nothing to do with the fact that Williamson is a Jewhater. He'll be correcting what was presumably a mistake made by Pope John Paul II.
8 posted on
01/22/2009 12:37:04 PM PST by
SJackson
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To: AbeLincoln; presidio9
The pope cannot excommunicate people for ignorance of history. I don't think these guys are "ignorant". Ignorance is the condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
No one can be unaware or uninformed of the holocaust.
These guys are Holocaust deniers.
So the real question is can the Pope excommunicate those who deny facts of history?
9 posted on
01/22/2009 12:39:29 PM PST by
Riodacat
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