it was probably an easy shift of consciousness, moving from being a Hitler Youth in the 1940s to head of the Inquisition (excuse me, now renamed the "Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith") more recently.
Yep. The two have similar themes, and there is plenty to document the way the Catholic church fitted together with the Nazis during and after the war, one hand stroking the other.
That said, I recently read that the new pope did resign from the hitler youth in order to persue his religious studies. That leaves open whether it was an act of conscience or whether it was a simple scheduling issue, but it is no longer a case of him being indisputably a weasel. There is a chance he may have been against the nazi insanity from the start. I have to then say innocent till proven guilty.
But he isn't innocent of corrupting zillions of minds, young and old with the obscene catholic belief system. And being a member of the radical right wing he isn't likely to help matters in an already polarised world.
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and the Grand Inquisitor
Date: 2005-04-30 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: and the Grand Inquisitor
Date: 2005-05-01 01:36 am (UTC)Yep. The two have similar themes, and there is plenty to document the way the Catholic church fitted together with the Nazis during and after the war, one hand stroking the other.
That said, I recently read that the new pope did resign from the hitler youth in order to persue his religious studies. That leaves open whether it was an act of conscience or whether it was a simple scheduling issue, but it is no longer a case of him being indisputably a weasel. There is a chance he may have been against the nazi insanity from the start. I have to then say innocent till proven guilty.
But he isn't innocent of corrupting zillions of minds, young and old with the obscene catholic belief system. And being a member of the radical right wing he isn't likely to help matters in an already polarised world.