I certainly did. Though as it turns out I had not read their other articles...
Legolas Send a noteboard - 21/03/2012 10:59:51 PM
some of which are more clearly anti-Christian or at least anti-Catholic, and show more of their exaggerated attempts to be PC. So okay, maybe they're not people I really want to associate with, but I'll still explain why I read that paragraph quite differently than you did.
A lot depends on how you interpret the first sentence, I read it with the "di cui" referring back to "nostro paese". Rereading it now, I suppose it makes more sense to read "di cui" as referring back to "la natura razzista e antisemita del nostro paese", as you evidently did.
The rest of the paragraph has several points where you can either give them the benefit of the doubt (i.e. assume that they merely mean Christianity was one factor among several, the biggest one at first but not so much later on and certainly not in the Shoah), or you can refuse to.
Their fundamental position is that CHRISTIANITY AND CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION ARE BY NATURE ANTI-SEMITIC, and that THE DIVINE COMEDY INSPIRED THE HOLOCAUST.
I don't know what the fuck you need to be smoking to feel a need to defend that or make apologetic remarks in defense of this NGO, or why you think calling them anti-Christian hate-mongers is an exaggeration.
A lot depends on how you interpret the first sentence, I read it with the "di cui" referring back to "nostro paese". Rereading it now, I suppose it makes more sense to read "di cui" as referring back to "la natura razzista e antisemita del nostro paese", as you evidently did.
The rest of the paragraph has several points where you can either give them the benefit of the doubt (i.e. assume that they merely mean Christianity was one factor among several, the biggest one at first but not so much later on and certainly not in the Shoah), or you can refuse to.
Divine Comedy is "offensive and discriminatory", says Italian NGO
- 20/03/2012 07:25:08 PM
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Duh?
- 20/03/2012 07:38:41 PM
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It does kind of feel like we should know more about how it's taught in Italian schools.
- 20/03/2012 07:50:36 PM
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Isn't the fundamental basis of Christanity mutually exclusive to Judaism and Islam?
- 20/03/2012 08:33:51 PM
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That's a really good point that I hadn't considered. I agree. *NM*
- 22/03/2012 09:05:00 AM
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Just because someone is in Hell doesn't mean you should discriminate against them
- 20/03/2012 08:23:22 PM
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Not having read any Dante is kind of hurting my ability to reply to that. 
- 20/03/2012 10:08:52 PM
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- 20/03/2012 10:08:52 PM
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Odd, considering you linked the "offending passages"
- 20/03/2012 11:54:34 PM
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Yes, well, I was semi-serious with the "pretending to understand Italian". 
- 21/03/2012 07:58:35 PM
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- 21/03/2012 07:58:35 PM
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I rather agree with you
- 21/03/2012 10:09:01 PM
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Taking the Divine Comedy off the curriculum would be like taking Shakespeare out in the UK.
- 21/03/2012 10:48:15 PM
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But some works of Flaubert aren't considered OK for compulsory reads...
- 22/03/2012 05:27:04 AM
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The last part of Hell is Giudecca because of Judas.
- 21/03/2012 10:30:36 PM
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And you don't see what's offensive about that?
- 21/03/2012 11:11:16 PM
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You are making an assumption that Dante named it after Jewish quarters.
- 21/03/2012 11:24:47 PM
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Wait, let's be clear just how bat-shit Rick Santorum crazy these assholes are.
- 21/03/2012 01:06:49 AM
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They also dont seem to realize just how many Muslim nations are calling for the eradication of Israe *NM*
- 21/03/2012 04:33:53 PM
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There's some things in that paragraph one can roll one's eyes at, aye - but that's as far as it goes
- 21/03/2012 08:06:32 PM
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Are you serious?! Did you read the whole paragraph?
- 21/03/2012 10:24:56 PM
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I certainly did. Though as it turns out I had not read their other articles...
- 21/03/2012 10:59:51 PM
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I saw that. Seems a little misguided
- 21/03/2012 07:04:06 AM
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That's what they're advocating. And I wouldn't know - they seem to think it is. *NM*
- 21/03/2012 08:08:53 PM
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I think that sometimes people take "politicly correct" tooooo far... *NM*
- 21/03/2012 08:20:31 AM
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Let me sum up my opinion on this as succinctly and clearly as I can:
- 21/03/2012 11:50:37 PM
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