Back to home page  Back to Religious stories   False Apology by Sean October 2005       Mitner supersaturated the atom and knew it was split, yet she   was an AustrianJew and her colleague could not give her credit.   He became a German Nazi and still wrote her to solve the problem   of how uraninium fission was possible.   He stole her work and was awarded the nobel prize.   Germany lost a world war and war criminalized were exposed   Sixty years later the German government apologized.       Martin Luther in his dying years did not understand why   Jews would not   convert to his reformed Christianity.   So he turned his writing wrath on them. He did not want their death.   Instead he advocated dispossession, dispersion and public disgrace.   Five hundred years later the Synod apologizes.   They wanted in roads into the economy of Israel to spread the faith.     The Roman Church branded Jews - "Christ killers" it was an obvious lie.   Agrippa , Rome's client messiah king, put Christians to the sword.   Table manners and circumcision divided Jews   Neither James, Jesus brother, Peter or Paul branded Jews as killers.   It was a small band of Jews who kept the messiah story alive.   When the church's power was set with the Roman emperor's blessing   Then they wanted to control their rivals and forced them into hated   roles as tax collectors and could point to them in case revolts broke out.   Twenty long centuries later they apologize.   The list goes on. But the point is made.  Two linked questions we ask.   Why was the apology given?  Was the apology sincere?   If the leaders of persecution generations later took steps to undo their   crime and wanted to make it formal - then we could ask why it took so   long? If that time was bringing their contrition to fruition then fine.   If the powers to be see profits, land deals if they say oops, then dig   deep to see why the apology was timed.   If the institution apologizes because they're on their death bed then you   want to forgive them but you expect a more than a salted tear.   If the patriarchy fear exposure of deeply guarded secrets then they might   mouth some token words in order to bury the truth even deeper.   Because the time span spans millennia the apology may be a prelude to   finding out the ameliorators within so another purge could be prepared.   But the easiest motive is a deep exposure by someone they thought was   a loyal lackey turncoat like the author of Hitler's Pope. It was already   published and when the heat was on, expediency ruled the day and   the pretenders said the death, genocide, humiliation and persecution   were the result of zealots way back when so the delve into the details?   It was less sincere than that gentle voice at the train station saying   "we are sorry for the inconvenience".