Most of what I remember about Wiesel was when he used to have clashes with Isaac Asimov. Asimov was sometimes criticized by Jewish community because he never wrote about the holocaust. So of course there was Wiesel for whom Asimov said: "Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust and now will talk of nothing else."
What particularity pissed Asimov was when Wiesel said that he did not trust scientists and engineers because scientists and engineers had been involved in conducting the Holocaust. To which Asimov exploded with: "What a generalization! It was precisely the sort of thing an anti-Semite says. 'I don’t trust Jews because once certain Jews crucified my Savior.'"
But of course RIP Elie Wiesel.
What particularity pissed Asimov was when Wiesel said that he did not trust scientists and engineers because scientists and engineers had been involved in conducting the Holocaust. To which Asimov exploded with: "What a generalization! It was precisely the sort of thing an anti-Semite says. 'I don’t trust Jews because once certain Jews crucified my Savior.'"
But of course RIP Elie Wiesel.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
