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)

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[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...