Nazi Romance?

[Mendalla]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/weeke...-the-romance-novel-community-apart/ar-BBlzTNh

I have mixed feelings about this. Mixing serious historical atrocities with romance novels, esp. Christian ones, is a path fraught with perils. It risks promoting acceptance of suffering or belittling the suffering. At the same time, freedom of speech and the right of a writer to explore the themes that they find important is something I support.

The final quote of the articles caught my eye, though:

I don't actually want this book to be censored," Wendell says. "I wish that someone had the judgment to say before it was published [that] redeeming Nazis through the power of Christian salvation sounds like a bad idea.

Isn't redemption kind of the point of Christianity? So what make redeeming Nazis a bad idea, as long as that redemption comes with a rejection of Nazism or at least is redemption of the individual rather than the ideology? I have not read the book and likely will not (romance ain't my thing usually) but I wonder if the opponents of the book are on the money or missing the point?

 

[BetteTheRed]

The problem, as I see it, is that the Holocaust happened in the context of Germany being a "Christian nation", complete with ideas endorsed by Martin Luther.

Bad judgment, in my view, as well. Not that I'm going to read it, but a general disapproval of the principle.

 

[Pinga]

Not my genre.

I would say...romance novels regularly have the bad guy being influenced to be a good person....that doesn't mean that vampires are good people, or that the bank robber turned good guy isn't a bank robber....the novels aren't at all..umm...real.

 

[Luce NDs]

All good books have a protagonist and an antagonist ... something to stir the somnolent soul ... or unconscious portion of the psyche if you wish to describe it that way.

Many can't expand enough to see it ... tis a gross stretch in that perspective of limited ...