The great Jewish physicist, Albert Einstein, who
himself barely escaped annihilation at Nazi hands, made the point well in
1944 when he said, "Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution
came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the
universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors
of the newspapers, but they, like the universities were silenced in a few
short weeks. Then I looked to individual writers . . . . they too were
mute. Only the Church," Einstein concluded, "stood squarely
across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth. . . . I
never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great
affection and admiration . . . . and am forced thus to confess that what I
once despised, I now praise unreservedly."
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