Reflections of a stormy petrel

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6664060/Pupils-suspended-for-Kick-a-Jew-Day.html
For the record, I am a Jew-basher-basher. If one of those kids had been mine, he or she would not have been able to sit for a week, and would have been on bread and water for a month. That this sort of filth should be allowed to flourish almost unpunished (sent home? give me a break!) in a country with claims to civilization makes my blood boil.

A while ago, a person with whom I no longer correspond discussed with me the role of the Church in the history of Nazi Germany. Her views led me to write a whole essay, which I think contains some good things, and I have decided to publish it. The first paragraph contains my opponent's views; the rest, mine. Because of its size, I have been forced to cut it in two parts; bear in mind that the next post on this LJ contains the second part.

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