Word: anti-jewish
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...come to rank Luther in importance with Augustine and Aquinas. "No one who came after Luther could match him," says Father Peter Manns, a Catholic theologian in Mainz. "On the question of truth, Luther is a lifesaver for Christians." While Western Protestants still express embarrassment over Luther's anti-Jewish rantings or his skepticism about political clergy, Communist East Germany has turned him into a secular saint because of his influence on German culture. Party Boss Erich Honecker, head of the regime's Luther-jahr committee, is willing to downplay Luther's antirevolutionary ideas, using the giant...
...father of free thought, conveniently omitting his belief in a sovereign God who inspired an authoritative Bible. During the era of Otto von Bismarck a century ago, Luther was fashioned into a nationalistic symbol; 70 years later, Nazi propagandists claimed him as one of their own by citing his anti-Jewish polemics...
Whatever the impact of Luther's anti-Jewish tracts, there is no doubt that his political philosophy, which tended to make church people submit to state authority, was crucial in weakening opposition by German Lutherans to the Nazis. Probably no aspect of Luther's teaching is the subject of more agonizing Protestant scrutiny in West Germany today...
...that he wished to say, and some of his outrageous "facts" included the aforementioned "Jewish-Nazi collaboration" and, as Mr. Kurzman does point out, "that it was the Israelis who blew up the American Embassy in Beirut." Why did not Mr. Kurzman include some more of Rahman's anti-Jewish statements and outright falsehoods to give a truer sense of the content of the speech...
...mention of the fact that Rahman never responded directly to any of the questions asked him? Indeed, if the sponsors really cared about educating the audience, perhaps they would have directed him to answer the questions, rather than allowing him to engage in verbal gymnastics and anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda, thus avoiding the issue each time...