Posted on 01/24/2018 6:11:08 PM PST by markomalley
In an interview with Vulture, hip-hop singer Erykah Badu said something she probably should’ve just kept to herself. But leftists can’t help themselves.
“I’m a humanist. I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler,” she said without the slightest hesitation.
Badu has been accused of being anti-Semitic as a follower of noted anti-Semite and Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan.
“I’m not an anti-Semitic person,” she added. “I (didn’t) even know what anti-Semitic was before I was called it.”
But it was finding a silver lining with Nazism that really set the interviewer’s teeth on edge.
“Come again?” she was asked.
Badu further stuffed her funk boots in her mouth: “Hitler was a wonderful painter.”
The interviewer wasn’t buying that either. So, Badu picked her next argument:
“Okay, he was a terrible painter. Poor thing. He had a terrible childhood. That means that when I’m looking at my daughter, Mars, I could imagine her being in someone else’s home and being treated so poorly, and what that could spawn. I see things like that. I guess it’s just the Pisces in me… I know I don’t have the most popular opinion sometimes.”
You don’t say!
“Why can't I say what I'm saying [about Hitler]?” she added. “Because he did such terrible things?"
Um, in a word, yes!
She followed the Hitler comment by throwing some “love” to accused rapist Bill Cosby:
"I love Bill Cosby, and I love what he’s done for the world. But if he’s sick, why would I be angry with him? The people who got hurt, I feel so bad for them. I want them to feel better, too. But sick people do evil things; hurt people hurt people."
Okay, that’s enough, Badu. Head on back to obscurity now, ya hear?
I think I remember Erykah Badu from the Star Wars Cantina Scene.
A muslim would obviously see things to appreciate in Hitler, and not mind if a man molested women so long as they were Kafir.
As Christians we take for granted that others share our values when in fact they do not.
As Christians we take for granted that others share our values when in fact they do not.
“I see good in everybody.”
In a way, she’s right. Bad people are often very talented.
For example, baby-killing, child-raping, cannibals are usually extremely skilled at Democratic politics.
Be afraid, very afraid because this mind of mush and the insanity occupies millions upon millions including those in government and education.
If it weren’t for WWI Hitler probably would have led a dull, law abiding life, quite possibly in poverty.
but when Trump said that there were “good people on both sides” you would have thought the sky was falling.
Hitler was a monster who should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
I’m going to try not to open myself up to attack here, but I’m probably going to step into it. Here goes —
Jesus loves everyone. Even Hitler. We are called to be Christ-like, and that is hard. We don’t have to admire Hitler, defend Hitler, support Hitler or “understand” Hitler. But the Bible would say that no one is absolutely beyond redemption (until they die) and there is always hope that someone can be saved.
It may seem trite, but JRR Tolkien was a fine Christian and at the climax of The Lord of The Rings, the wonderful saintly Frodo is unable to destroy the One Ring. He doesn’t have it in him. He isn’t strong enough. But the evil Gollum, for selfish reasons, and quite unintentionally, takes the step which finally results in the Ring being thrown into the fire and destroyed. Tolkien did this on purpose. Gollum could have been killed earlier (he deserved it) but pity stayed Bilbo’s hand, and it stayed Frodo’s hand. The pity and sensitivity to another life allowed that life (evil as it was) to continue on, and in the end, good came out of it.
For me, this is a philosophical/theological issue and I wouldn’t want to strictly focus on Hitler because there is so much raw emotion tied up in that evil person. It blinds us. But I think the basic point is valid for all — we all have good and evil in our soul. It doesn’t help us if we pretend that this isn’t so — that there are exceptions and that “some people” are just no good at all. In fact, that is precisely the mistake Hitler made about the Jews: “Sure, why not exterminate them? There is nothing good there!” But he was wrong.
How much good does she see in Christian, White, male, heterosexual, gun owning, conservatives I wonder?
He did treat his dog nicely.
Jesus loves everyone. Even Hitler.
[1 Timothy 2:1] I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
[2] For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
[3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
[4] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
But I think the basic point is valid for all — we all have good and evil in our soul.
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I opened this thread mainly to see if Erykah Badu's reasoning would be anything like that.
child rapist/killer John wayne Gacy killed young boys and stuffed them in the crawl spaces of his house. Erica would say- “ He loved kids, and was a homeowner”
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