Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Islam (long but not propaganda) Message-ID: <539@scc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 14:37:24 EDT Article-I.D.: scc.539 Posted: Sun Aug 4 14:37:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:13:28 EDT References: <297@mit-athena.UUCP> <5690@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Don Steiny Software Lines: 53 Xref: linus net.politics:9703 net.religion:6939 > > Also, I think Luther's opinion played a relatively minor part with Hitler > compared to Nietzsche, for example (either directly, or indirectly through > men like Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre). > It is generally argued that the ideas of people like Nietzsche, Camus, > Sartre and Darwin were selectively applied or twisted by Hitler. Indeed, > these men did, or probably would have, strongly opposed the Nazi way of > doing things. Nietzche wrote to his sister in 1887 . . . . . . You have committed one of the greatest stupidities--for yourself and for me! Your association with an anti-Semitic cheif expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life which fills me again and again with meloncholy. . . . It is a matter of honor with me to be absolutely clean and unequivical in relation to anti-Semitism, namely *opposed* to it, as I am in my writings. I have recently been persecuted with letters and *Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheets.* My disgust with this party (wich would like the benefit of my name only too well!) is as pronounced as possible, but the relation to Forster [Nietzche's sister's husband], as well as the afteraffects of my former publisher, the anti-Semitic Schmeitzer, always brings this disagreeable party back to the idea that I must belong to them after all . . . It arouses mistrust against my character, as if publicly I condemmed something which I favored secretly--and that I am unable to do anything against it, that the name Zarathustra is used in every *Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheet*, has almost made me sick several times. The Portable Nietzche ed. Walter Kaufman p. 456-457 The last thing Nietzche wrote was a letter to his friend Overbeck: To friend Overbeck and wife. Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I hope to yet demonstrate that I am someone who pays his debts--for example, to you, I am just having all anti-Semites shot. Dionysus -- scc!steiny Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060