[Buddha-l] Jesus is Buddha?

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Dante Rosati schreef:

>well its one thing to poke fun at his "gospels are translations from
>Sanskrit" theory, but this is a little more ominous:
>
>from the page:
>
>http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw98-9/denmark.html
>
>Holocaust Denial
>The most serious cases of anti-Semitism in 1998 were connected with
>Holocaust denial. In late 1997 right extremists including Christian
>Lindtner,
>Ole Kreiberg and the lawyer Kund Bjeld Eriksen formed the Society for Free
>Historical Research. In May members of the group interrupted a lecture given
>at the University of Copenhagen by the distinguished German historian
>Professor Eberhard Jackel, by asking questions from the infamous "66
>Questions and Answers about the Holocaust," and in November, they invited
>the Swiss Holocaust denier Jürgen Graf (a convert to Islam) to Denmark for
>the second time (the first was in November 1997). Further, in January and
>February Lindtner published revisionist articles in the center-right
>newspaper
>Berlingske Tidende. The first was translated into German, probably by Jürgen
>Graf, and disseminated on the website of Nationalzeitung. The second
>article was an attack on the entry on Auschwitz in the Danish Encyclopedia.
>In it he claimed that it would have been impossible to kill so many people.
>Both can be found on Denmark's First Patriotic Homepage, the website of
>Ole Kreiberg. Lindtner, a former senior lecturer in Old Indian philology at
>Copenhagen University who was fired in 1992 for tax fraud, is the first Dane
>to have become successful in promoting Holocaust denial views.
>
>  
>
Well, obviously, when someone has lost his wits, he or she's no longer responsable and there are very little limits as to where his or her minds wanders off. I personally don't find anything wrong with having a good laugh now and then, if it's about the absurdies of life and if it's not at the cost of someone. 
This doesn't take away anything of the deep tragedies that happen to us and our fellow human beings now and then (just let's hope Lindtner doesn't go into politics). 
As an example from my personal life I remember how my brothers and I used to laugh when my mother slowly lost her mental faculties. But we also were deeply concerned and sad.

Erik


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