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The visionary explained that history witnessed "the outbreak of an atheist war against the faith, against God and against the People of God. A war that sought to exterminate Judaism from which Jesus Christ, the Virgin and the Apostles came, who transmitted to us the Word of God and the gift of faith, hope and charity, a people chosen by God, chosen from the beginning: 'salvation comes from the Jews.'"

The similarities between this statement and the Holy Father's statements at Auchswitz are quite remarkable.

Some inscriptions are pointed reminders. There is one in Hebrew. The rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from the register of the peoples of the earth. Thus the words of the Psalm: "We are being killed, accounted as sheep for the slaughter" were fulfilled in a terrifying way. Deep down, those vicious criminals, by wiping out this people, wanted to kill the God who called Abraham, who spoke on Sinai and laid down principles to serve as a guide for mankind, principles that are eternally valid. If this people, by its very existence, was a witness to the God who spoke to humanity and took us to himself, then that God finally had to die and power had to belong to man alone -- to those men, who thought that by force they had made themselves masters of the world. By destroying Israel, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful.

9 posted on 06/02/2006 8:37:35 PM PDT by bourbon (cliche' wasted & hate taste tested)
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To: bourbon
The similarities between this statement and the Holy Father's statements at Auchswitz are quite remarkable.

A bit too remarkable, wouldn't you say? The message of Fatima has been revised several times - for instance documents written in the 1930s added a great deal of anti-Communist content, as that was during the Spanish Civil War. It is interesting that post-Holocaust a Jewish interpretation appears. But nothing was said about this originally.

10 posted on 06/02/2006 11:34:48 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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