Sentences with phrase «used holocaust»

It used the Holocaust as an example.

Wasserstein condemns Arendt's views as little more than using the Holocaust to «blame the victim.»

They too are using the Holocaust, but for another set of purposes entirely.

«some countries use the Holocaust as an «excuse to pay ransom... to Zionists.»

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Goddard as far as I can recall (and I am a regular although skeptical reader of his blog) when using Holocaust imagery is making certain general or philosophical points.

Not exact matches

After the conference, Spicer offered additional clarification, telling an NBC reporter, «In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust, however, I was trying to draw a contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on innocent people.»

The «canonical» example he uses is Schindler's List, an excellent - but - extremely - serious Best Picture winner about the Holocaust.

«I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the Holocaust, for which, frankly, there is no comparison,» Spicer said in an interview with CNN host Wolf Blitzer.

Census data doesn't lead to the Holocaust, but it was certainly used by the Nazies in perpetrating it.

He angered Jews by allowing wider use of the old, Tridentine liturgy, which includes a Good Friday plea that they be «delivered from their darkness» and also by lifing the excommunication of Holocaust - denying Bishop Richard Williamson.

Using the Nazi; s and their Holocaust does not change the facts.

That history, coupled with the generous use of interview narrative from rescuers, the rescued, and non-rescuers throughout the book, more than offsets any fear that the Oliners» project, by focusing on rescue activities, might diminish the horror of the Holocaust.

Using this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people.»

There are believers on here (see Theo) who use their religion to justify slavery and the Holocaust.

The danse macabre in the Middle East, the Israel - Palestinian conflict, the torrent of diabolic weapons showered by the U. S. for the use of Afghan rebels who first hung noble President Najibullah on a street pole and then indulged in mutual massacre flooding with blood the snow - white mountains (the sombre slaughter, even amidst natural calamities, is still unabated) and other holocausts baffle description.

Please tell me why, say, the Holocaust, is OBJECTIVELY morally evil using Kant's view and we will see if it stands up to what you claim.

The Holocaust is simply the biggest club available for liberal Catholics to use against traditional Catholic teaching — especially on issues relating to sexuality, including abortion, contraception, celibacy, and the role of women in the Church».

While modernity, the Holocaust, the American Jewish experience, and threats to Israel's existence have forced us to confront serious demographic concerns, oftentimes we use such issues as a veil to cover our ignorance of our own tradition.

People can't stand personal insults in this country, let alone praising Hitler, mocking the holocaust, using U.S. flag to wipe your behind, calling our heroes baby killers and insulting them, posing nude in public and a ton of other stuff.

Same rules apply here that have been used by the zionist owned media to portray all muslims as terrorists or supporters of terrorism.Just like the gays have hijacked the rainbow and word «gay» just like jews have hijacked the word «holocaust» to refer only to ww2 actions by hitler, our media has created an environment where the use of the word «terrorist» is reserved for arab / muslim.

Please note that I am here using the term «Holocaust» inclusively in order to cover the constellation of crimes against humanity that we associate with the Third Reich.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

The Bible has been used to justify slavery, genocide, apartheid, the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust.

It is true that the ancient hill of Megiddo is in modern Israel, but what possible use could a stable democracy be during «some nuclear holocaust»?

Joseph M. Scheidler, a leader in the movement to halt abortion, recommends the use of inflammatory rhetoric; thus, abortion is a «holocaust.»

For over twenty years the tracts have been used to spread such Christian messages as Catholics are going to hell and that the Holocaust was a Jesuit - led inquisition against the Jews.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

It used to be said that until the late 1960s, the Holocaust was a taboo subject for anxious American Jews.

The late Lucy Dawidowicz, distinguished historian of the Holocaust, declared that there should be a moratorium on the very use of the word «Holocaust» — that it has become a crutch and an excuse and a cheapener of memory — and what she said is undeniably right and healthy.

The bible has been used to fuel the crusades, the exile of Jews from Europe more than once, the Holocaust and slavery, perhaps its not the best guide.

And considering that this was the same philosophy that Nazi Germany used to justify the Holocaust, it's a chapter that we'd rather distance ourselves from or forget all together.

«Anyone who used the symbols of the Holocaust last night for the sake of a demonstration trampled the dignity of the hundreds of thousands of survivors who still live in our midst and the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust.»

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a U.S. - based Jewish group, called on religious authorities to declare the demonstrators» use of Holocaust symbols a desecration of God's name.

«Cynically using the characteristics of what was the attempt to exterminate our nation is one thing we simply can not accept,» said Cabinet member and Holocaust survivor Yossi Peled.

The portrayal of Messiah as victim threatens to sever the basic continuity we have wanted to maintain between suffering and redemption (or to use Christian imagery, between cross and resurrection) To have redemptive meaning, the cross must answer the victims who whirl here in torment, for, in the Holocaust, the world becomes Golgotha turned on itself, «one great mount of crucifixion, with thousands of severed Jewish heads strewn below like so many thieves» (Roskie, p. 268)

In the Fall of 2013, for instance, Pope Francis gave an interview which was interpreted — or rather, misinterpreted — as downplaying the ongoing abortion Holocaust, «We can not insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods,» he said.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

The Bible has been used to justify: — The Crusades — The Spanish Inquisition — The Holocaust — Colonialism across the world and the slaughtering of natives — Witch hunts — Slavery — Segregation — Lack of women's rights

we know what the Griff «used to think» about the holocaust, and of course these things a liable to get him in trouble.

Notice that the Holocaust denial is not widespread in Russian Neo-Nazis, they mostly support the Holocaust, or use it to prove the Jews are bad («look, everyone hates Jews, this can not be for nothing») or claim it were Russians who saved the Jews, perhaps they should not, as the Jews are not grateful enough.

Led by Reps. Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan, New York members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to use his influence to ensure that Jakiw Palij — a convicted Nazi guard — is deported, so New Yorkers and Americans are not forced to live with «a painful reminder for Americans who fought against the Nazis or lost loved ones in the Holocaust.»

It said: «It appears allegations of anti-Semitism are being used to stifle the sharing of information on some of the uncomfortable events that took place during the Shoah (Holocaust).»

They knowingly used terminology such as the Holocaust which they knew would frighten rather than inform.

This was actually, originally, in Canada's criminal code and was used to prosecute a Holocaust denier, Ernst Zündel, in the early 1980s, but the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that it was too much of an infringement on free expression rights.

(Note, the reason I referenced the above link is because it contained the passage where they describe the previous law and use against the Holocaust denier).

It also called on Labour members to «resist the use of Hitler, Nazi and Holocaust metaphors, distortions and comparisons in debates about Israel - Palestine in particular».

The study used comprehensive population - based data on 113,932 European Jews from nations where the Holocaust occurred.

He is also working on an 800 - page book, The Golden Holocaust, which describes, Proctor claims, the shaky scientific rhetoric and bogus clinical studies that tobacco companies used to sell their products.

Then he asked Holdren to disavow previous comments in which he labeled such critics as «deniers,» saying that the word is commonly used only to describe those who deny that the Holocaust occurred.