[Gocamino] Matajudios????

[Russ Irwin]

Hi Howard. Been a long time. I do find it interesting that I pretty much agree with you here
(miracles never cease)

I've just finished reading all of this subject and only want to add my own 2 cents worth:

Two wrongs don't make a right! Never have, never will. Learn from history so we don't have to repeat
it again. Or in the words of my favorite quote:

"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the
greatest root of all the evil that is in the world."       Max Born - Nobel Prize winner

Russ


On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:47:52 EDT, Hathor821 at aol.com wrote:

>Well said, Grant!!!!
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>Patricia de Miami
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>In a message dated 5/7/2009 7:50:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>hme347 at aol.com writes:
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>I agree  with almost everything you stated, Grant, except this part of your 
>response.  Don't you think that you are trivializing "History" by failing 
>to  acknowledge most historians' honorable intentions?  You make them sound  
>like they all have ulterior motives and deceit as their motives in writing  
>their accounts of the past.  
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>Most educated folks can  sense the difference between honest accounts of 
>events and distortions of what  happened in the past.  Don't you think you are 
>being somewhat cynical!  (Sincerely, but no phony Hugs!) Howard Mendes, NYC
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>Third. History  is all apologist. History is all revisionist. Nobody has a 
>lock 
>on “WHAT  REALLY HAPPENED”.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant  Spangler <gaspangler at hotmail.com>
>To: †GoCamino OakApple  <gocamino at oakapple.net>
>Sent: Thu, 7 May 2009 1:51 am
>Subject: Re:  [Gocamino] Matajudios????
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>My  My,
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>First, may I say, it's good to hear from Rosina, our long lost  matron 
>d'chemin.
>
>Next, it seems that whenever religion is mentioned,  the swords come out of 
>their 
>scabbards.
>
>Third. History is all  apologist. History is all revisionist. Nobody has a 
>lock 
>on “WHAT REALLY  HAPPENED”.
>
>I would, however, offer you to pay attention to what we can  currently 
>observe. 
>In realtime. Ponder today’s interaction of Muslim on  Muslim, Muslim on 
>Jew, and 
>Muslim on Christian. Not a pretty picture. No  apologies or explanations 
>required. It’s rather ugly. I would venture  nothing much has chan
>ged in the last 
>500 years. People keep being  people; cultures keep doing what they do 
>best, 
>ethnocentrically viewing  the universe from their turf. I would surmise the 
>myth 
>is that ‘Everyone  lived in peace and harmony in ancient Spain’. Don’t 
>believe 
>it, not for a  moment, thankyouverymuch. Matamoros, Mataindios, Matajudios, 
>Matafrancos,  Mataperros, Mataratos, Matarepublicos, Matayomama. Whole 
>lotta mata 
>goin'  on. Is this to say the Church was justified in it’s actions? No way. 
>Nor  
>the Crown. Nor anybody else on the playing field. The Spanish Inquisition  
>was a 
>textbook Machiavellian power struggle. I get yer stuff cuz God sez.  Top 
>that. 
>Was Isabel the perfect monarch? No, but she did a damn fine job  for the 
>cards 
>she was dealt. I’d reelect her.  
>
>The  Generalissimo Franco tried desperately to unify Spain with his 
>heavy-handed  
>techniques. That lasted until 1975. Then the demi-kingdoms once again  
>split and 
>the languages and cultures once again blossomed. Basque, Galego,  Catalá, 
>Asturianu, Extremeño, and all the others were patently illegal.  Could not 
>be 
>spoken, written, or even mentioned. Spain is, and really  always has been, 
>a 
>disparate loosely consolidated group of kingdoms and  cultures. Don’t ya 
>just 
>love it? It’s dynamic. It’s culture. It’s Spain.  It’s Humanity. It’s US.
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>Et Viola. Le diatribe d'Grant.
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>Sane  Camino,
>
>Grant
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>Grant  Spangler
>GASpangler at hotmail.com
>http://www.ElCaminoSantiago.com
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