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Dan said:
...The "racial" notion of religion is also interesting, if not entirely original (c.f. the evolution of German federal law c. 1933-1945.)
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Dan, have you ever read <u>Nietzsche & Wagner: A Lesson In Subjugation</u> by Joachim Kohler (trans. Ronald Taylor)? In chapter 10 ("Return to the Underworld"), there are some interesting thoughts on both men making their own slightly different religions and how those two 'theologies' (both with a racial / national element) had a great impact on Hitler. By ch. 10, both men are dead and their widows, who have been sniping at each other, make temporary peace during the 3rd Reich. For me at least, any racial or national religion seems false, even if it wasn't filled with evil. I know there is a need for social justice in religion; but at it's core the temporal world seems to fade away and it's only the lover & the beloved, like St John of the Cross' <u>Dark Night of the Soul</u> or Martin Buber's <u>I and Thou</u>.
Robert Meyer
[This message has been edited by Robert Meyer (edited June 10, 2005).]
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