June 2, 2006
Writing about Auschwitz reminded me of an experience I had as a young child with a Holocaust survivor and how she explained the tattoo on his forearm as something that happened ‘back in the war’. Since Gitmo has come to light I’ve often wondered how the survivors of Gitmo and the other un-named prisons [...]
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June 2, 2006
Pope Benedict recently visited the haunted grounds of Auschwitz, which has come to be the symbol of the systematic violence that caused the deaths of millions of Jews, Gypsies and others. He asked a question, “where were you God?”, in a round about way.
The obvious answer is that there was no God then and [...]
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