To: Pyro7480
If this guy wasn’t the Pope, and had the same history, and he stayed in the Hitler Youth for over a year, would you be suspecting him?
Granted, they shouldn’t be planning physical attacks on him; but I can understand the sentiment of having a little resentment towards him if you saw your relatives sent to the ovens - regardless if there is repentance or not.
12 posted on
05/10/2009 11:29:39 AM PDT by
Blogger
(It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. - Ben Franklin)
To: Blogger
“Granted they shouldn’t be planning physical attacks on the Pope”
Ahhh! A “non” zealot’s take.
To: Blogger
. . . I can understand the sentiment of having a little resentment towards him if you saw your relatives sent to the ovens . . .Because he was inducted into the HJ?
Crack a book.
16 posted on
05/10/2009 12:17:39 PM PDT by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: Blogger
The Pope’s own cousin was murdered by the regime for having Down’s Syndrome! Yet he was forced to join the Hitler Youth.
40 posted on
05/10/2009 6:28:42 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Blogger
The Pope’s own cousin was murdered by the regime for having Down’s Syndrome! Yet he was forced to join the Hitler Youth.
41 posted on
05/10/2009 6:28:42 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Blogger
Maybe you should start another Prayer Thread like the one’s you run praying for Obama.
...I don’t know...maybe for good relations between Jewish people and Christian people.
68 posted on
05/10/2009 8:00:10 PM PDT by
rbmillerjr
("We Are All Socialists Now"........not me, not now, not ever)
To: Blogger
If this guy wasn’t the Pope, and had the same history, and he stayed in the Hitler Youth for over a year, would you be suspecting him? Granted, they shouldn’t be planning physical attacks on him; but I can understand the sentiment of having a little resentment towards him if you saw your relatives sent to the ovens - regardless if there is repentance or not
well, the first is ignorance -- Hitler Youth was compulsory for all students. That's no more than saying that he was a boy scout. Were Hitler Youth thought Nazi slogans? Yes. Did that mean that they CHOSE that or that their parents CHOSE that? No. Did that mean that they would by default become Nazis? No. Also, he left after a year and he was conscripted into the army and deserted it.
The greatest proof that Herr Ratzinger was no Nazi was that he was close friends with Karol Wojtyla who lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland.
87 posted on
05/11/2009 3:45:51 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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