Tuesday, May 30, 2006
In-der-Blog-sein
Is That Legal? is upset that the Pope evoked Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Martin's graduate school colleague Edith Stein) during his visit to the Nazi death camps. That's just one of the upsetting things mentioned. I think he's being too harsh on the Pope, expecially in saying that the Pope does not see what happened there as a crime against Jews. In fact he said it was a place of "unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man" and "people which, along with the Jewish people, suffered most in this place and, in general, throughout the war". Ratzinger is addressing a Catholic audience, and of course he's going to use an angle specific to that audience. That's simple rhetoric. I think his main message to his audience is that they cannot be indifferent to the suffering of others because they might always be next, so they should be on guard against injustice against anyone. ¶ 7:56 AM
Is That Legal? is upset that the Pope evoked Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Martin's graduate school colleague Edith Stein) during his visit to the Nazi death camps. That's just one of the upsetting things mentioned. I think he's being too harsh on the Pope, expecially in saying that the Pope does not see what happened there as a crime against Jews. In fact he said it was a place of "unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man" and "people which, along with the Jewish people, suffered most in this place and, in general, throughout the war". Ratzinger is addressing a Catholic audience, and of course he's going to use an angle specific to that audience. That's simple rhetoric. I think his main message to his audience is that they cannot be indifferent to the suffering of others because they might always be next, so they should be on guard against injustice against anyone. ¶ 7:56 AM
