Summery: Erich Priebke, a 100 year old Nazi solider who died last week, is to be buried with a christian burial. Many people are angry. The church said, "A Christian who has been baptized and who has received the sacraments of the Confession and the Eucharist, regardless of what have been his crimes and sins, as he dies reconciling with God and with the Church has the right to have a Holy Mass celebrated at his funeral "
Analysis: This story is... Troubling. I need help trying to decide my feelings on this. Killing people is wrong. There is no doubt about that. Anyone who decides in there head that they need to kill themselves or others, is wrong. But, what would you do? This is what he honestly believed. He believed that doing this would save him, and the rest of his homeland. (Which is stupid, but hey what are you gonna do?) Heck, thousands of groups have done this. Back in the day, Christians killed everyone for not believing, for being different. American hate groups have killed other american races because, just like the germans, the other people weren't white. ( Or, "the master race") In fact, this same thing is happening now, with other hate groups killing people for not believing in they're religion. The "True" religion. And it'll keep on happening for all of time. Perhaps not as terrible as the holcohoust, and maybe even worse. Thats just how the multiverse works. Nothing we can believe do, or say, will change a bigots mind. Only Time can do that. But, with time, other problems come.
And other bigots return.
Oh well.
Here's the link
Bleh
Be cool.
Don't kill anyone. (that includes yourself)
I thin, while what he did was wrong, there was so much propaganda and lies being fed to the the German people that it was probably a lot easier than what we might think to get caught up in Hitler's philosophy. I think that if after the fact relized how wrong he was and turned his life around he deserves both the right to a proper burial and the forgivness of others.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Sam on how easy it was for the germans to be brainwashed. Also, put into consideration that his funeral and burial wasn't just for him, it was for his family also.
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