With one wave of the popes hand.

[Coffee99]

Bit confused about how NOW became a Nazi sympathizer. Maybe I missed the whole heil-salute-bear-the-swastika posting that he made - but I don't think so. No, pretty sure I didn't miss it.

There are many of us who might have been fearful of the Hitler machine - and cowered and not done what we could in order to keep our families safe. You know, that whole "stay under the radar" thing. I hope I would have had the courage to do the right thing. But I will never know - wasn't there.

NOW would, more likely than I, been the fellow that we worried about. The one who stuck his own neck out because it was the right thing to do. It was the thing a Christian should do. And he quite possibly would have paid dearly for that.

Why do I say that? Well, NOW seems to have no qualms about running afoul of the entire board when he feels that he must take a stand. He doesn't let a minority position dissuade him. And, I've noticed, he gains strength in that stand when he feels that he is speaking out for someone who is not here to defend themself, for someone who faces bigger obstacles in life, for the downtrodden, the unwanted, the disliked. True, it's words on a forum and there are no gun-toting SS coming from him. But, I suspect that words probably indicate rather a lot about all of us. Even on a harmless message board. And, I suspect that he would have been one of the fellows putting up a rather fierce resistance to the Nazis.

Most things that get thrown on out on this forum just make me shake my head. This one made me sad. It was a low-blow that was more than a little uncalled for.