[Vision2020] Victims and Perpetrators

[Gary Crabtree]

Having gone to the site in question and reading what was said in context,
it's a bit hard to see what it is that Ms. Merkle should be apologizing for.

Were some Jews complicit in the holocaust? Yes, undeniably but I read
nothing that would be misconstrued by a reasonable person as placing blame
for anti-Semitic persecution on the Jewish people as a whole or anything
that implied that any Jew was responsible or deserving of their fate be it
from the Nazi's or Christians.

What is also undeniable is that regardless of ones feelings about roe v.
wade it is not unreasonable to draw a comparison between 50,000,000 Jews
and 54,000,000 plus children. I both cases the victim's had no say over
their fate. I see nothing that is "half assed or ignorant" in the
juxtaposition.

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On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Rosemary Huskey <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
> wrote:

> Good Morning Dr. Merkle,
>
> I am writing to you, as head of your household, about the distressingly
> anti-Semitic tone of your wife’s recent contribution to *Femina*
> <http://www.feminagirls.com/2015/08/01/victims-and-perpetrators/>, the
> blog maintained by your mother-in-law, Nancy Wilson, your sister-in-law,
> Rachel Jankovic, and your wife, Rebecca Merkle.  I do not know what Mrs.
> Merkle’s background or training in Holocaust studies might be but when I
> read her statements “it was those Jewish leaders who forced their own
> people into slave labor” and “The Jews of Poland were betrayed by their
> own” I can only suppose that her education in that area is not only
> limited but deliberately biased.  For example, your wife referenced “
> Rumkowski” (the Nazi appointed manager of the Lodz ghetto) but somehow
> missed the irony that his first name was Chaim which means, as you
> certainly know, “Life” in Hebrew.
>
> I say to you in truth, nothing and I mean* n**othing* is more repellent
> than half-assed, ignorant references and comparisons to the Holocaust.
> Further, as you should also know the anti-Semitic climate of Europe
> including Great Britain was nourished and encouraged by the Christian
> leaders and church members for almost two millennia. The ugly spirit and
> actions of those miserable jackasses performed the centuries long discordant
> overture that set the stage for the National Socialism party of post
> World War I Germany.  John Calvin, amongst the foundational theologians
> of your own sect, Christ Church, offered the following comments of
> Judaism.
>
> *A Response To Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew*
>
> *Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they
> be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in
> their misery without the pity of anyone.*
>
> Excerpt from "Ad Quaelstiones et Objecta Juaei Cuiusdam Responsio," by
> John Calvin; The Jew in Christian Theology, Gerhard Falk, McFarland and
> Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC and London, 1931.
>
> Are we to believe that you share this perspective because you are an
> unabashed follower of John Calvin?  I encourage you to ask your wife to
> apologize publically for her remarks and notify readers of her family
> blog that none of the victims of Nazi or Christian,
>
>  persecution were or, are responsible, for their fate.
>
> Rosemary Huskey
>
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