The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were literate, clean, technologically progressive, hard working, “modern, ” sober, “orderly, ” and so forth. Yet about human nature we get more concrete and more pertinent information from the Bible than from statistics dealing with secondary education, the frequency of bathtubs or the mileage of superhighways. Erik Von KuehneltLeddihn
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  1. If there is no personal God, everything is permissablel, and if God exists, everthing is possible.
  2. There is no such thing as a historical fatality there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.
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