Indulgent Nonsense

Thank you Simon Cowell (and Michael Slezak for reminding me of this quote) for the giving me the perfect to phrase for today.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-pope-holocaust-04-feb04,0,5822611.story

Christianity struggles enough with attempting to remain relevant in an increasing post-modern, scientific, need for "truth" society without this type of blatent nonsense bring the entire religion down around us. Now granted, I am not Catholic--but some of my best friends, plus my boyfriend and thus future in-laws are--and when something like this happens it is utterly necessary that the entire Christian world responds. How does it look when probably the single most noticeable figure in Christianity not only embraces, but endorses this type of appointment. Do we really want to be the ones who welcome back into the fold Holocaust deniers?? When we--especially Lutherans--are still fighting to break free from a millenia of anti-Semitism supported by the Christian world. Now granted..I am especially sensitive to this issue given my background in Holocaust studies and the fact that those classes pretty much changed my life, but still shouldn't the entire world--the Pope himself--be outraged about this? On top of which can anyone explain to me how one can deny the Holocaust? I love myself a good conspiracy theory, but I'm sorry, are we really going to go so far as to say that Auschwitz exists but wasn't a concentration camp? Was Zycon-B just some German fad not used to kill thousands of people? Are all of these memoirists and survivors lying? No RATIONAL, SANE person can call this a cover up, and if they'd like to, I refer them to Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved," it just might enlighten them.