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Article: The virtue of hate.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there.... Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
--Luke 23:33-34
********** In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner, the monotony of his work detail is suddenly broken when he is brought to the bedside of a dying Nazi. The German delineates the gruesome details of his career, describing how he participated in the murder and torture of hundreds of Jews. Exhibiting, or perhaps feigning, regret and remorse, he explains that he sought a Jew--any Jew--to whom to ...