/2018/04/04/holocaustianity-essay-by-simon-g-sheppard-dated-1998-01-01/ Exegesis Hermeneutics Flux Capacitor of Truthiness Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:26:30 +0000 hourly 1 /2018/04/04/holocaustianity-essay-by-simon-g-sheppard-dated-1998-01-01/comment-page-1/#comment-5562 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:26:30 +0000 /2018/04/04/holocaustianity-essay-by-simon-g-sheppard-dated-1998-01-01#comment-5562 […] https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/holocaustianity-essay-by-simon-g-sheppard-dated-1… The new term is Holocaustianity [8] and perhaps a quintessential example of what Jacobs describes is the following (Justman, 1995: 73): The story is told that after his escape from the Warsaw ghetto a famous rabbi was invited to see Winston Churchill and advise him on how to bring about Germany’s defeat. The rabbi (the story goes) replied as follows: ‘There are two possible ways, one involving natural means, the other supernatural. The natural means would be if a million angels with flaming swords were to descend on Germany and destroy it. The supernatural would be if a million Englishmen parachuted down on Germany and destroyed it.’ Churchill, being a realist, chose the natural method, angels with flaming swords. TEDx talk under review […]

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