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Deluded Rabbi Hier certainly hasn't a clue. Notice his attempt to claim the 'scientific' high ground, what a liar. Science is the enemy of the 'holocau$t as alleged; but then again, nothing is rational about superstitions.
Enjoy, comments invited.
- Hannover
Mel Gibson is producing a movie about what we know about the crucifixion of Christ. What we believe we know about it. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center is worried. He appears to be afraid that Gibson, a traditionalist Catholic, might portray with some accuracy the role that Jews played in the execution of Jesus. Further, Hier is worried that Gibson might imply that all Jews everywhere are responsible for the death of Jesus. Still, the rabbi exhibits a civilized restraint.
"Obviously, no one has seen The Passion and I certainly have no problem with Mel Gibson's right to believe as he sees fit or make any movie he wants to."
But then there is the matter of Mel's father, Hutton Gibson. The old man (he's 84) is a radical conspiracy theorist who argues that there is a growing tradition of “anti-popes” in the Vatican, that it could be a Masonic plot backed by "the Jews," and rejects the assertion that Al Qaeda hijackers had anything to do with the attacks on the World Trade towers.
I have nothing to say about any of that. However….
In the interview published in the New York Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magaz ... IBSON.html Hutton dismissed "historical accounts that six million Jews were exterminated. 'Go ask any undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body,' he said. 'It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?'" He went on to assert that "…there were more [Jews] after the war than before."
And "'The entire catastrophe was manufactured,' said Hutton, 'as part of an arrangement between Hitler and 'financiers' to move Jews out of Germany. Hitler 'had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs,' he said."
It's clear than that Mel Gibson has a handful with his father. I'm not saying that the old man is right or wrong about any of it, except that he is in the ballpark about the "six million" nonsense and the cremations. No cigar, but it's a start, especially when you're eighty-four.
When it comes to the old man, Rabbi Marvin Hier has a sudden change of heart about people having "the right to believe as they see fit." When asked about the remarks of Hutton Gibson in the NYT Magazine article Rabbi Hier said: "To bigots and antisemites, no amount of evidence or scientific proof is ever enough. In their world only hate matters."
Scientific evidence? There we go! That's more like the Rabbi Hier I'm familiar with. This is about the Holocaust ! The Gibson's have their true beliefs, and the rabbi has his. No more civilized chat about the elder Gibson's "right to believe as he sees fit…." If he doubts what Rabbi Hier believes is true about gas chambers and cremations, the old man is going down. He's a "hater." To hell with the right to disagree. This is the Holocaust. !
For those curious about "scientific" evidence, or lack of it, for gas chambers see: ( Crowell, Samuel: Technique and Operation of German Anti-Gas Shelters in WWII: A Refutation of J.C. Pressac's Criminal Traces, http://www.codoh.com/incon/inconpressac.html )
That's one problem with believing the sacred stories - any of them. The Holocaust story is merely the sacred story of religious and secular Jews alike, among others. That's why you can't question it - it's sacred. There's no wriggle room inside a sacred story. Inside there, there is only room for the certainty of true belief, and the pleasure that that certainty brings to the true believer. Anything that breaks into that sacred place is a danger to that pleasure. The danger is that what is believed to be certain might be exposed as doubtful, even false. That's where certainty ends, that's where pleasure ends, and where pain and anger begin.
The threat, the fear that true belief has failed him and might fail him again, is the source of the Rabbi's anguish, his anger, and his desperation. Like all modern phylo-Semites in America, he has put aside the jawbone of the ass (no pun intended) to wield slander as a destroyer of reputations, create thought criminals, and make taboo any kind of open debate on his own sacred story.
Okay. In the interests of full disclosure -- the pun was intended.
For myself, I have no problem with issues of certainty and true belief. I'm uncertain about everything, while I believe in nothing. I do have prejudices. I desire many things. Looking for pleasure in all the wrong places.
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