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From: abe@reed.UUCP (sUsAn ElIzAbEtH aBe)
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Subject: Re: Luther and Antisemitism
Message-ID: <4230@reed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 23:43:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: reed.4230
Posted: Tue Oct  7 23:43:23 1986
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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In article <294@plx.UUCP> ed@plx.UUCP writes:
>>      Luther wrote a few virulently antisemitic tracts, a fact which the
>> Nazis later found convenient to exploit.  
>
>	OH GREAT!!  NOW *MARTIN LUTHER* IS A NAZI!!!!
>		.....I smell a Witch Hunt!
>		Ed Chaban

	Try again.
	The "logical" extension is:  The Nazis considered Luther a
quotable authority, therefore the Nazis were (are?) rabid
Lutherans.  No, I don't believe this; in general I think "logical"
extensions are good mostly as silly entertainment.  For that
matter, in general I think that pronouncing moral judgments on
folks long dead, viewed through the mores of a different society,
is pretty silly...

			Susan.