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A NAZI WITNESS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20011028
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THANKS TO JEFF JACOBY. I REGRET, HOWEVER, HIS REFERENCE TO "THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND A TRANSCENDENT MORAL CODE." BELIEF IN A TRANSCENDENT GOD CERTAINLY STRENGTHENS OUR MORAL CODE, BUT HUMANS CAN AGREE THAT CERTAIN THINGS ARE EVIL _ MASS MURDER, FOR INSTANCE _ WITHOUT RATIFICATION FROM A TRANSCENDENT SOURCE. In 1945, responding to a different evil, Thomas Mann wrote to Hermann Hesse: "Under severe pressure, we have all undergone a kind of simplification. We have experienced evil in all its horror and through this experience - be it reluctantly confessed - discovered our love of ...

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