Posted on 03/15/2008 10:17:55 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper
More than once during these talks I referred to Luther and what always occurred to me as his destructive influence. I pointed out that even in such an admirable book as Rohan Butler's “The Roots of National Socialism” the spiritual origins of Nazism and Luther's influence had not been given the necessary importance. Then I was asked if I would be prepared to elaborate to them—about a dozen of the very senior boys, that is—my own views on Luther and Lutheranism. I agreed—with the proviso that they would be my own views and nothing else. Admittedly, I had read more on Luther and about Luther than on most other subjects. But I wanted to make it quite clear that I would not speak to them with the voice of a great authority, but would merely give them my own interpretation. I told them, moreover, that I should try to prove how dangerous it is to accept legends; and that the picture I had of Luther and his influence was thoroughly contradictory of the customary Luther of the legend.
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You have accounted this thread perfectly.
Yeah,
sometimes I try and apply my dissertation chairman’s exhortations about teaching a certain type of critter to sing.
Besides my keyboard keying is sofware flakey again att.
As they have admitted time and time again, they have no pretense of truthfulness. Instead, they hope to circulate the same lies from time to time, to spread “the word.”
True!
Fight the good fight, my friend.
I wondered when that perspective would rear it’s . . . again.
What language is that?
You wrote:
“sometimes I try and apply my dissertation chairman’s exhortations about teaching a certain type of critter to sing.”
My dissertation chairman’s advice was to read deeply the best works, learn the necessary languages, know the cultures involved and use common sense. He also warned against using the passive voice - in that I failed him all the time. Everything else I got right.
I don’t think I have sufficient skills to explain it to you.
Sorry.
I suspect you received a high-quality doctorate from an accredited and respectable university from a committee of sober and well-reasoned scholars.
Or anyone else.
Yeah, there are a fair number of us types hereon.
You wrote:
“I suspect you received a high-quality doctorate from an accredited and respectable university from a committee of sober and well-reasoned scholars.”
Yes...unless we’re saying state universities don’t count? :) I can even claim that my dissertation fills a need in society. It is, after all, perhaps the best cure for insomnia ever created! :)
Good night gentlemen!
Matthew 5:22
BTW, I think such courageous performance deserves the last word tonight . . . at least for a good while. I have some other priorities.
Think “Polacks.”
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