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Sun 16 Aug, 2015 08:23 pm
Does "the people" here refer to the people (including the Nazi but not limited to)?
Context:
But the truly sinister complicity of the church came in its willingness to open its genealogical records to the Nazis and thereby enable them to trace the extent of a person's Jewish ancestry. A historian of the Catholic Church, Guenther Lewy, has written:
The very question of whether the [Catholic] Church should lend its help to the Nazi state in sorting out people of Jewish descent was never debated. On the contrary. "We have always unselfishly-worked for the people without regard to gratitude or ingratitude," a priest wrote in Klerusblatt in September 1934- "We shall also do our best to help in this service to the people." And the cooperation of the Church in this matter continued right through the war years, when the price of being Jewish was no longer dismissal from a government job and loss of livelihood, but deportation and outright physical destruction.
-From The End of Faith by Sam Harris
@oristarA,
The ordinary civilian public, excluding government officials, etc. It would not include the Nazis who were wielding power.
@FBM,
FBM wrote:
The ordinary civilian public, excluding government officials, etc. It would not include the Nazis who were wielding power.
Despite the fact that church was "in its willingness to open its genealogical records to the Nazis"?
@oristarA,
Good point. That was hardly working "for the people," was it? Sounds like the Church apologist is just full of ****. Heh heh...
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