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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
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Subject: Re: Hypocrisy
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 18:06:48 EDT
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	Just one disagreement with Tom?s statement that Hitler was
    persecuting Jews because of their religion, not their race: wrong-o.
    Jews were persecuted on both counts.  It was easier to find Jews
    who were actively practicing Judaism, but there were a LOT of Jewish
    Christians, agnostics, etc. killed in WWII simply because of their
    ancestry (There are at least some mentioned in "The Hiding Place", if
    you want a source).  Furthermore, Hitler's stated reasons for his
    dealings with the Jewish people had nothing to do with their beliefs.
	Also, to defend my statement about "The president most responsible
    for the Indian genocide..." being Jackson -- I misstated that.  It
    should have been "the president responsible for the most deaths" --
    and not in the Indian Wars, but the "Trail of Tears".
	I know that the original discussion was on relgion/war, but
    it seems to have migrated to a discussion of "Is the USA morally
    superior to other countries".  My opinion on that is that I don't
    believe 'moral' makes much sense applied to countries, at least
    not applied evenly throughout their history.  Certain policies of
    the government of country X could be moral or immoral, but
    "The USA" is too ephemeral a beast to pin morals on.  The policies
    of the United States have been, I believe, more immoral than moral,
    but also no worse than most countries.

						-Glenn