Summary
In his May 6 column, Leonard Pitts Jr. accuses the Christian church of remaining silent about the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, AIDS and the use of torture. However, Pitts overlooked the historical facts.
Three-thousand Protestant pastors in Germany joined to form a unified Christian opposition to Hitler. One concentration camp alone, Dachau, records holding nearly 3,000 Catholic priests for their opposition to Hitler. Israeli consul Pinchas Lapide estimated that the Church rescued about 860,000 Jews from the Nazis. In 1940, Albert Einstein criticized the silence of Germany's newspapers and universities: "Only the Church," he said, "stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth."See the full content of this document
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Pitts Made a Shallow Attack On All Christians
The civil rights movement was led primarily by Christian clergy, through the Southern Christian Leaders...
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