Are Christians Responsible?

Dr. Franklin Littell, the well-known ecumenist and Temple University religion professor, is chairman of the National Institute on the Holocaust. Through the Institute, he and his colleagues are to promote research and teaching on the Nazi era. This is a laudable work, and itistobe hoped that the efforts of the Institute will produce not only increased understanding of a particularly brutal period of history, but insight into human nature and possibly even safeguards against the occurrence of such an atrocity in the future.

But for all his good intentions, Dr. Littell follows a very curious method of improving Jewish-Christian relations. He apparently thinks that by making Christianity a scapegoat, he can help bring about greater understanding, tolerance, and interfaith cooperation.