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The last few paragraphs of this article struck me. I still remember visiting Bergen Belsen when I was five. Days later my family was held at gunpoint returning from the Pergumum in East Berlin. In that East German border guard with the submachine gun, I saw a living testimony to the evils that occurred at Bergen Belsen. Communists and Fascists have always been the same to me on an emotional level. The evils of WWII were fresh in the early 80s. My five-year-old was impressionable. Imagination ran wild for me in those days. Later in my 20s when offered a chance to visit Dachau, I went to Oktoberfest instead. I could not let loose the memories and imagination of a five-year-old again. What gets me concerning your summary of Moltmann is; I think his perspective has largely been lost. I suppose in a way my faith has been forged from those experiences since I was five. Yet, today I look in horror as anti-semitism resurfaces. A hundred years has not yet passed, but humanity seems to be fully healed from the atrocities, in that they seem more than willing to commit them again. I'm not sure those fires forge theology anymore. Your writing breathes life into the memories.

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