O Papa em Auschwitz: “Eles quiseram matar Deus”

Neste artigo de Sandro Magister, resumem-se as palavras do Papa em Auschwitz. Magister refere que o Papa apresentou uma nova interpetação para o Holocausto. Ao tentar eliminar o povo Judeu, os nazis pretenderam matar Deus, o Deus de Abrãao e de Jesus Cristo. O Deus dos Judeus e dos Cristãos. O Deus que estabeleceu no Sinai os princípios eternos que servem de guia à humanidade. Ao destruirem Israel, os autores deste extermínio pretenderam arrancar as raízes da Fé Cristã e substitui-la por pela fé no governo dos homens, no governo dos poderosos.

São igualmente transcritas aquelas passagens das intervenções do Papa que Magister considera mais relevantes.


A passagem do discurso do Papa que Magister considera mais relevante é a seguinte:

The rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from the register of the peoples of the earth. Thus the words of the Psalm: “We are being killed, accounted as sheep for the slaughter” were fulfilled in a terrifying way. Deep down, those vicious criminals, by wiping out this people, wanted to kill the God who called Abraham, who spoke on Sinai and laid down principles to serve as a guide for mankind, principles that are eternally valid. If this people, by its very existence, was a witness to the God who spoke to humanity and took us to himself, then that God finally had to die and power had to belong to man alone - to those men, who thought that by force they had made themselves masters of the world. 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.