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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Yet Another Golfer Joke \(YAGY\)
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Date: Sun, 13-Nov-83 00:04:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 13 00:04:36 1983
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This is not exactly a flame response, but please take it as
an attempt at consciousness raising.  You forgot to apologize to
a very important group of readers -- those for whom the word
"holocaust" still has some meaning.

Elie Wiesel coined the word "holocaust" in English to refer to the
Nazi massacre those not belonging to their master race in world war II.
The word literally means "burnt offering".  Try to understand the word
from the viewpoint of traditional Judiasm, in which:

 - we believe there is a just G-d in heaven

 - we make continual offerings of prayers, and also recite in our
   prayers, the offerings (some by fire) which were made in biblical
   times.

The word "holocaust" takes on staggeringly powerful echoes of meaning,
rolls around in the mind and leads you to examine all you know
of life afresh, in horror.

The word has been spectacularly cheapened, and Wiesel is now on
record as wishing he had never thought of it.


The word still has meaning to many of us.  It is not appropriate for
any sentient being (e.g., a talking ant) to equate the accidental
destruction of his home town with the holocaust.

				- Tobias D. Robison
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