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Thread ID: 16241 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-01-08
2005-01-08 11:57 | User Profile
[url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0%2C1564%2C1452747%2C00.html]German Cardinal Compares Abortion to Holocaust[/url]
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The arch-bishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner has attracted hefty criticism following his Epiphany sermon in which he compared the practices of abortion and euthanasia to the Holocaust.
Addressing his congregation, Cardinal Meisner said "first there was Herod, who ordered the children of Bethlehem to be killed, then there was Hitler and Stalin among others, and today unborn children are being killed in their millions".
President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel fired back at the arch-bishop, slamming his statements as a insult to millions of Holocaust victims. In an interview with news agency dpa, Spiegel said that Meisner should "distance himself immediately from the unacceptable comparison." He added such statements have, in the past, forced public figures out of office.
But a spokesman for the Cologne archbishopric defended the controversial sermon. "The Cardinal made a connection between abortion and major crimes in history. He did not denigrate the Jews, but denounced the crimes of Hitler and Stalin," he said.
Inappropriate comparison
The Green party in Berlin called for Meisner to apologise for insulting victims of the Holocaust and women in difficult existential emergency situations.
Claudia Roth, co-president of the Greens environmentalist party which is in coalition with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats, demanded an apology from Meisner.
"He must apologise to those he has offended," Roth said.
Earlier the pastor of St Michaelis church in Hamburg, Christian Rüß caused outrage when he compared the children who were killed or left orphaned in the tsunami, with the victims of abortion in Germany.
"People ask how God could allow this flood," Rüß said in his sermon for the flood victims, "but maybe the Catholic church is right when it says 'what are you complaining about?', 200,000 children are aborted each year in Germany.
2005-01-09 03:00 | User Profile
Gee, what article involving the American anti-abortion movement was the gentleman reading? American writers have been using both the abolitionist movement and the holocaust as historical parallels to the abortion slaughter of the innocents for years. Why does it take so long for European theologians to catch up with their American counterparts? Catholicism should have drawn that parallel twenty years ago.
2005-01-09 16:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident] President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel fired back at the arch-bishop, slamming his statements as a insult to millions of Holocaust victims. In an interview with news agency dpa, Spiegel said that Meisner should "distance himself immediately from the unacceptable comparison." He added such statements have, in the past, forced public figures out of office...
The Green party in Berlin called for Meisner to apologise for insulting victims of the Holocaust and women in difficult existential emergency situations...
Claudia Roth, co-president of the Greens environmentalist party which is in coalition with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats, demanded an apology from Meisner.
"He must apologise to those he has offended," Roth said. The response is so hysterical because he has compared a class of non-favored victims (unborn children) to a class of favored victims (women) and especially to the mother of all favored victim classes (the Jews).
Jewish victimology depends, in large part, on maintaining the dogma that the suffering of the Jews is absolutely unparalled in history, unapproachable, unknowable, unfalsifiable, and without valid comparison of any kind.