Wednesday, November 22, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
CAMERA: Whistling in the Dark at Kansas City-based National Catholic Reporter by Dexter Van Zile - '...To those with the ears to listen, echoes of mass rallies in Munich and Nuremberg in the 1930s can be heard today in Lebanon and Iran as Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejad leading crowds chanting "Death to Israel." Another echo is a bit more difficult to discern – the echo of pacifist Christians whistling in the dark as storm clouds of anti-Semitism gather overseas. Anti-war Christians in the United States whistled in the dark in the 1930s and 40s by portraying Hitler’s rise to power as a consequence of the sins of Western civilization – an accident of history and not a manifestation of evil that needed to be confronted...'
