I should add that the husband of a friend of mine’s dad was in the Hitler Youth as a full-fledged, meeting-attending member. He came to regret it but, at the time, taking part gave him many benefits. Had Pope Benedict XVI actually been a Nazi, I’d need more information on his words an actions since then. My guess is the lefties love to bring that up our of sheer perversity. They can be so petulant when they don’t get their way.

In a similar vein, I’m happy to hear that in his book, Senator Byrd says he regrets his involvement in the KKK. I can think of words other than the “foolish” he used to describe it, though. His membership in the Klan was purely voluntary. He chose to join.

I’m wondering if, in his book, he says that he regrets his letter protesting the integration of the military. I can’t believe the way minorities give Democrats a pass on racist comments and actions.

Use it whenever you like. I’d be honored.

Evon

Ironic thing about those “good old days” is that the liberals just ate up that bile, while the conservatives hated this so-called progressive revolution. I guess that speaks truth to the adage tha when you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

Ratzinger was automatically enrolled in the Hitler Youth. He needed to attend at least one meeting to qualify for the subsidy for his education which he needed because his family had limited funds. When a teacher pressed him about attending a meeting, he said that he would not. The teacher said that he understood and the young man was not penalized…but he could have been. He was never a Nazi.

See: I don’t want to ignore it. I want to promote that instead of takign some suicidal moral stance against hitler or nazism, our pope chose the pragmatic route.

Its really not false that the guy was in the hitler youth. It’s also quite well known that it was a pragmatic decision made at the time.

He’s just what we need: a pragmatic pope that isn’t going to take insane moral stances, and will be reasonably pragmatic given the current situation.

My original quarrel with him was the attempt to smear Pope Benedict XVI as a Nazi. Now that I’ve been watching EWTN I think I know how this came about. Some time ago a group of gay activists disrupted a meeting where then Cardinal Ratzinger was to speak by chanting something that rhymed Nazi with a disrespectful shortening of Cardinal Ratzinger’s name. Ratzi – Nazi. The police had to be called to calm things down and remove the disrupters. [The disruption was a typical example of the Left's policy of free speech is only for those who agree with them.]

Now the Lefties have always been a few yo-yos short of a toy store in the creativity department. They probably had to strain their brains for months to come up with the Ratzi – Nazi jingle and they are loathe to give it up–it would mean more months of work trying to come up with another jingle. So they have to perpetuate the falsehood that the new Pope was once involved in the Nazi party.

This is like the so-called torture of military prisoners. Truth is no defense. If the Left needs it to be true they will keep repeating it.

By the way, then Cardinal Ratzinger was reported to be a model of calmness and class during that demonstration.

just like the ones I used to justify the value of anonymous,unhindered speech.