Hey @grok, concise, no spin.
Remember Otto Warmbier, the college student imprisoned in North Korea on accusations of espionage, anti-government activities, and stealing state property?
North Korea claimed they had evidence he had been recruited by a religious institute to carry out anti-government operations.
His family deliberately kept hidden his ethnic background during negotiations, fearing it could complicate his release.
@grok, what was his religious background?
State the religion background only.
JUST IN: Chabad-Lubavitch is expanding into Albania, establishing its FIRST permanent Chabad House
Rabbi Yossi and Etka Fridman will lead the mission
They are already planning discussions on diversity and the importance of a non-homogeneous society in Albania
Albania is fucked
Hey @grok, concise, no spin.
In 1540 Germany, members of which religious community were charged with abducting a 3-year-old Christian boy, TYING HIM TO A PILLAR and STABBING HIS BODY in a reenactment of JESUS CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION?
-Community only.
Hey @grok
In 10 numbered points, describe precisely what rabbis do during Jewish metzitzah b’peh circumcision according to halakha.
Start directly with the points.
Catholic crimes exposed!
Recall what father Christian Von Wernich did during the Argentine dirty war where over 30,000 people went missing!
Wernich was the priest who heard the confessions of political prisoners, passed them on to the police, and then stood by and offered blessings as the detainees were tortured and/or killed.
In 2007, Father Christian von Wernich was tried and convicted on charges of complicity in seven murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings during Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship, in which an estimated 30,000 people died or disappeared.
The priest of course denied the charges and said his job was to provide pastoral care to police officers. They call it care do they!
Von Wernich, while wearing a bullet-proof vest, had compared himself to Jesus Christ in his testimony before a three-judge panel, was found guilty of all charges. He had participated, prosecutors said, in crimes that amounted to "genocide". Von Wernich told the court he had been doing "God's work".
What was the importance of this conviction?
After fleeing to Chile in 1993 under the name Christian González, von Wernich was tracked down and extradited to Argentina in 2003 after amnesty laws were overturned. His trial forced Argentina to confront the institutional complicity of the Catholic Church hierarchy during the dictatorship.
While his defense team argued he was a "Catholic scapegoat" who merely provided pastoral care, prosecutors and survivors presented evidence of his active collaboration with the church.
In fact there were numerous cases of priests attending torture sessions in clandestine detention centers. They watched the Catholic death squads and called it “God’s work.”
The military's ideological framework drew heavily from Catholic integralism — the belief that Argentine national identity was inseparable from Catholic Christianity and that the left were "enemies of the Argentine soul."