Jumping the Gun

Lest We Forget

Some folk are just far too ready to pull the trigger, it seems.  We have heard that a copy of Mein Kampf, personally signed by the author, Adolf Hitler is coming up for sale at auction.  Apparently,  if one had spare change of around NZ$24k one might succeed in purchasing it.

Some doughty warriors are winding themselves up into a hissy fit.

What sort of person buys a signed copy of Mein Kampf?

March 1st, 2014 at 2:00 pm by David Farrar Whale Oil blogs:

Two rare early editions of Mein Kampf, signed by Adolf Hitler could sell for more than US$20,000 (NZ$24k) at an online auction, officials say.

Whale comments:

Check the back of the couch and see if you have a spare $24k.
But seriously what sort of sicko wants to own a book by Adolf Hitler. Only a nazi sympathiser could possibly want such a thing.
I think you have to be either genuinely unaware of what happened to millions of people during WWII under the rule of Nazi Germany, or you have to have a very specific personality fault to think that stuff is cool.

I agree. It is one thing to want to read Mein Kampf. It gives an insight into the mentality of the Nazis. But to want a copy personally signed by Hitler – that is rather sick.

Mmmm.  As the judge says in A Few Good Men, "Not so fast."  Maybe the holocaust memorials through which hundreds of thousands of people trek every year should be regarded as equally "rather sick", along with their patrons?  You know, people looking at those lampshades made from human skin.Apparently its only Nazi sympathizers making the trek.

Come on, guys.  There are all sorts of reasons, some of them noble and sanctified, and some just plain commercial,  why someone would want to own such a rarity.  There are all sorts of reasons why museums recording the holocaust are holy, just, and good.  The evil is not in the immaterial thing.  It is in the human heart, soul, mind, and motives, as well as its actions.  Holocaust paraphernalia usually serves as a vivid testimony to the depravity of the human race.  To jump on a holier-than-thou soapbox and presume to know what is going on in another human being, imputing the worst motives and intentions to their desiring to own an autographed version of Mein Kampf is beneath civilised and educated folk. 

Amongst other defects, it is gets close to an age-old heresy which believes evil intrinsically resides in matter--as if a Hitler-personally-autographed rare edition of Mein Kampf were intrinsically wicked.  That's the kind of ignorance usually displayed by animists and other purveyors of deformed religions, such as Gaia worshipping Greens.  Matter is amoral; its what people do with it that--er--matters.

Let's think now.  We are fearful and reverent Christian folks at this blog.  But if someone offered us, at an affordable price, an authentic death warrant co-signed by Pontius Pilate and King Herod for the execution of one Jesus of Nazareth (which we believe will be revealed in the Last Day as one of the worst miscarriages of human justice ever perpetrated in history) we would purchase it in a heartbeat.  And we would mount it in a cabinet to secure its perpetuation, with the following appellation at its head: "Lest We Forget". 

Maybe, just maybe, someone would want to purchase the rare edition of Mein Kampf for a similar reason.  Does that make him or her sick?  If so, then you had better start a campaign to eradicate all those Holocaust memorials and museums.