Christians, of course
"By destroying Israel, by the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful"
--Pope Ratzinger speaking at Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 28, 2006
And you know what else? After the speech, the Pope greeted 32 camp survivors, all but one of whom were Polish Catholics. One lonley Jew represented the more than one million Jews who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
With no apparent awareness of the long tradition of Christian contempt for Jews and the Jewish religion, a contempt which both fed the hatred of the perpetrators and justified the inaction of the bystanders, the pope also prayed, "Why, Lord, did you remain silent?"
What a dispicible display, and one that continues the Church's previous efforts to usurp the Holocaust.
