Scalia To Synagogue - Jews Are Safer With Christians In Charge

[hangloose]

Our next Chief Justice????


Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part in government. Scalia then went so far as to suggest that the reason Hitler was able to initiate the Holocaust was because of German separation of church and state.

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"Did it turn out that," Scalia asked rhetorically, "by reason of the separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they were in the United States of America?" He then answered himself, saying, "I don't think so."

Scalia has an extraordinary way of not letting facts confound his arguments, but this time he's gone completely over the top by suggesting that a separation of church and state facilitated the Holocaust. If his comments had gotten wider coverage (they were only noted in one small AP article, and one in the Jerusalem Post), they may have brought America's largest religious communities - both Christian and Jewish - into the streets.

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For example, as Reverend Moon has moved more and more into the political realm - from funding activities of both George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush, to funding the money-losing but politically activist Washington Times newspaper, to financially bailing out Jerry Falwell, to setting up numerous charities that now ask for federal funding - we see an increasing and ominous participation of legislators and Moonies. Moon, for example, was crowned by several members of Congress in the Senate Dirksen Office building on March 23, 2004. As the Washington Post noted in a July 21 story by Charles Babington, Moon himself proclaimed to our elected representatives attending the ceremony, "Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

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All of this - the merging of church and state - is now being aggressively promoted by no less than Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, in no less shocking a venue than the nation's oldest Orthodox synagogue.

In some distant place, Adolf Hitler and Bishop Müller must be smiling at Scalia's encouragement of the growing conflation of church and state in America. It's exactly what they worked so hard to achieve, and what helped make their horrors possible.


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[CBHagman]

1. Somebody slept through history class.

Either that or we need to call the proctologist to dislodge Scalia's head. Obviously he's never heard the term "deutscher Christ" (basically a Nazified "Christian") and what the difference was between that and a member of the Confessing Church.

He also missed a little thing called the POGROM and the various ways it was practiced throughout continental Europe and even to some extent in the British Isles. Again, I have to say it: Didn't this guy learn anything in history class?

[Cyrano]

2. Scalia is a religious fanatic. Don't listen to what he says. Watch how he

votes on cases before the Supreme Court.

When I look at Scalia, I think of the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" in which German judges were sitting in the docket accused of war crimes.

I can't help but believe that Scalia would have felt right at home with those other justices sitting in that docket. And while we're at it, let's add Clarence Thomas to that infamous group of people.

On edit: Oh yeah, the last time Jews felt safer with Christians running everything, they ended up with places called Auschwitz, Treblenka, etc. Do you believe there's any Jew anywhere who isn't aware every day of his/her life of "Christian benevolence?"

[specter]

3. LOL

Thats not a requirement for his post u presume too much. :P