... - was difficult for many people to comprehend and, moreover, accept. Those who visited concentration camps after the war in Eastern Europe were confronted by things that, in the words of United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower, beggar description. 1 What so shocked those observers initially in 1945 was in fact ... other quarter. Chaos ensued throughout Italy, as German occupiers (who were many in number) were in no way determined to let any Italian territory fall into the hands of the enemy. Most Italian officers decided, in the absence of instructions and a declaration of war, that ...

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... in the overall life experience because it widened the perceived gap between other forms of life and human's seemingly special place in the scheme of things. And it was fully concordant with the accepted notion that humans resided at the center of the universe. In fact, being at the center ... if no one were listening, and the best evidence that God was listening was the fact that he had placed man at the center of things. In the 13th century A.D., Thomas Aquinas almost single handedly imported Dualism into mainstream Christianity. He attained international fame from authoring well-reason...

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