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...campaign for secularization, Jumblatt sees the Maronite Christians as the principal enemies. He complains that "they want to dominate the country. Instead of displaying the great values of Christianity???love, charity, justice?they act like the petty old Christian sects of the Byzantine era, who quarreled about the sex of angels or whether Christ was of one or two natures and executed those who lost the argument." At the same time, he points to his home region as an example of how the country's religions can live together. In the mountainous Chouf, where in more peaceful times he ruled...
About this time, Kurt Kiesinger was also making another important decision. Politics in Germany had boiled down to a battle between the Communists and the Nazis, and many Catholic and Protestant leaders saw in the Nazis the only chance to save Germany?and Christianity??? from the Red Peril. In 1933?the year that Hitler was elected Reich Chancello ?Kurt Kiesinger became a member of the Nazi Party. It took only a year for Kiesinger to realize that he could not hope to influence developments within Hitler's increasingly brutal movement. For a time he considered emigrating to Brazil...
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