Alex
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German prosecutors act against Holocaust-denying bishop
BERLIN (AFP)---German prosecutors have filed a complaint against a British bishop, Richard Williamson, for inciting racial hatred after he said that "not one Jew" was killed in Nazi gas chambers.
The competent court in Regensburg, southern Germany, must now decide whether to accept the charges, its president Johann Ploed said, adding that the decision would come in around one week.
Any punishment would likely be a fine, he said. If Williamson accepted the fine, there would be no need for a public trial.
Williamson sparked controversy in January when he gave a television interview in the vicinity of Regensburg in which he said: "There was not one Jew killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies."
The bishop said he believed "200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none of them by gas chambers."
The outburst prompted a very rare comment on religious matters by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called on Pope Benedict XVI to "clarify unambiguously that there can be no denial" the Nazis killed six million Jews.
The scandal carried particular resonance as it was Nazi Germany that masterminded and carried out the murders during World War II, and because the 82-year-old pope is German.
Denying that the Holocaust took place is illegal in Germany and Austria.
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Jehanne
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I do not care what other people on this board say. There is absolutely, positively no doubt whatsoever that the Holocaust occurred, and that at least six million Jews and another six million gypsies, homosexuals (the Nazis had conservative moral values, by the way), mentally ill persons, and other "undesirables" perished in Nazi death camps. In total, 12 million individuals were murdered by the Nazis. In addition, the Nazis also made extensive use of the guillotine, executing more individuals than were killed during all of the French Revolution. The Nazis were unspeakably hideous and cruel, forcing the condemned to face the blade of the guillotine looking up, their eyes forced open.
By the way, I am not opposed to the death penalty, but I think that it should be administered as humanly as possible, and with compassion, not cruelty.
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“Not one of the elect and predestined perishes, regardless of his age at death. Never be it said that a man predestined to life would be permitted to end his life without the sacrament of the Mediator. Because, of these men, Our Lord says: ‘This is the will of the Father, that I should lose nothing of what he has given me.’” (St. Augustine, Against Julian 5, 4)
“For in this respect they are in the same condition as the greatest sinners; regenerated in baptism they are alike in sanctity; take away baptism, and they perish all together. It is a fact then, that grace seeks its adopted sons even among the worse sinners in their very last moments, and that many who looked less wicked are denied this gift. But who could say that these facts escape God’s ruling or that He decrees them without a profound justice? …It is obvious that all who die without baptism are lost.” (St. Prosper of Aquitaine, The Call of All Nations 1, 17; 2, 24)
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