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Sun 16 Aug, 2015 09:31 pm
Does "furrowing Pope Pius XII's censorious brow" mean "making Pope Pius XII an embarrassment"?
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All of this, despite the fact that the Catholic Church was in very real
opposition to much of the Nazi platform, which was bent upon
curtailing its power. Goldhagen also reminds us that not a single
German Catholic was excommunicated before, during, or after the
war, "after committing crimes as great as any in human history."
This is really an extraordinary fact. Throughout this period, the
church continued to excommunicate theologians and scholars in
droves for holding unorthodox views and to proscribe books by the
hundreds, and yet not a single perpetrator of genocide!af whom
there were countless examples-succeedd in furrowing Pope Pius
XII's censorious brow.
-Sam Harris: The End of Faith
@oristarA,
When someone "furrows his/her brow," that when someone has a very worried or disapproving look and wrinkles appear on their forehead.
https://www.google.co.kr/#newwindow=1&safe=off&q=furrowed+brow
And "censorious" means to be disapproving of someone or something:
https://www.google.co.kr/#newwindow=1&safe=off&q=censorious
@FBM,
Thanks.
I also failed to understand "This is really an extraordinary fact". It first says that "not a single German Catholic was excommunicated before, during, or after the war", and then it says "Throughout this period, the church continued to excommunicate theologians and scholars in droves." It is natural, however, to suppose that there must be some Catholics in the theologians to be excommunicated.
So the author says that "not a single German Catholic was excommunicated before, during, or after the war" is a lie?
I don't know the history, but the clincher is "German" Catholic. I guess every theologian who was excommunicated during that time was non-German.
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