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To: Buggman

Are you suggesting that anyone who denies the holocaust should be excommunicated? What about non-Catholics? What would happen to them?


34 posted on 01/29/2009 8:33:22 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
Are you suggesting that anyone who denies the holocaust should be excommunicated?

Yes. Quite aside from the moral issue (denying the Holocaust amounts to bearing false witness against 16 million people), a blanket excommunication of all Holocaust deniers would send a message that the Vatican will not countenance the perversion of history by its members. This would have the not-incidental benefit of sending a message to the leaders of the Middle-east as well.

What about non-Catholics? What would happen to them?

Non-Catholics are obviously out of the Pope's chain-of-command, and therefore not his responsibility.

Shalom.

38 posted on 01/29/2009 9:00:35 AM PST by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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