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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Luther and Antisemitism
Message-ID: <5954@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 10:31:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.5954
Posted: Wed Oct  8 10:31:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 00:33:20 EDT
References: <2170@mtgzz.UUCP> <15901@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <755@ihlpf.UUCP> <4230@reed.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: twit

In article <4230@reed.UUCP>, abe@reed.UUCP writes:
> 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.

Please, Susan, remember where you are.  This is *USENET*.  Anything as
sensible as the paragraph above has no place here.

Try to be more careful.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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