Antonin Scalia goes completely over the edge of sanity at nation's oldest synagogue

[docwebster]

Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part in government. Scalia then went so far as to suggest that the reason Hitler was able to initiate the Holocaust was because of German separation of church and state.

"Did it turn out that," Scalia asked rhetorically, "by reason of the separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they were in the United States of America?" He then answered himself, saying, "I don't think so."

Scalia has an extraordinary way of not letting facts confound his arguments, but this time he's gone completely over the top by suggesting that a separation of church and state facilitated the Holocaust.

(cut/pasted from the above article)

Comments

[midnightmadness.livejournal.com]

Forget the fact that the Nazi's did everything they did in the name of God - Hitler was a "devout" Christian (self described) himself, and truly believed that what he was doing in the name of religion was what God wanted (clearly, joining God and Government is the solution to a country’s problems). It wasn't the Separation of Church and State that brought Hitler to power and the Holocaust about, it was because Germany was a country in a serious recession/depression where a fanatical religious sect played on people's hopes and fears to gain political power in the name of righteousness and a demented "morality" and then practiced their own brand of censorship and hate (blaming much of their problems on a minority group within their borders)... now, WHERE have I heard that story playing out again in recent years...

[qatobo.livejournal.com]

I think Clarence Thomas is more likely to get the spot that Scalia. Easier to get confirmed, and far more conservative.

[stypica.livejournal.com]

um, wow.

between that and the Kerik stuff, It's turning out to be a strange news day.

[beanrua.livejournal.com]

*jaw drops*

And they didn't bodily carry that f*head out of there?

Somebody needs to tell me that some one in this congregation said SOMETHING to him. They should know this history better than any other people in the world. They were charged to "never forget."

I guess they forgot.

[lazysun.livejournal.com]

you know what's really funny?

these people that Scalia is accusing of having Christian beliefs? Like, oh, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and his kid, John Q.), John Hancock, Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, James Madison, Alaexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette? You know, all those really key figures in the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and stuff...

They were deists. They didn't fucking believe in Jesus Christ as Messiah.

(So were an awful lot of subsequent Presidents, is this site is to be believed...)

People are fuckheads. Scalia should be burned at the stake or something, just for being stupid.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Lots of modern fundamentalists have no idea what Deism was/is.

[ex-flexible.livejournal.com]

Why does this remind me of ol' Norm Podhoretz?