Tag Archives : guilt

The usual thinking about torture is that ‘pain will make the guilty confess.’ A whole new study coming out of Harvard University refutes that all the way around. These researchers are now saying that, contrary to popular belief, ‘the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.’ The research appears in the Journal of Experimental [...]

Two criminals are seen hanging on their respective crosses on either side of Jesus, dying along with him. These two have committed serious crimes and committed grave misdeeds. They are generally called thieves. In the other Gospels, they are called “robber, highwayman, bandit” as found in Matthew 27:38 and Mark 15:27, for example. These are the [...]

Josias Kumpf, now 83, did active service during the Holocaust as an armed SS guard at three Nazi concentration camps: the Sachsenhausen Camp, slave labor sites in Nazi-occupied France where prisoners built launching platforms for Germany’s V-1 and V-2 rockets that were used in attacks on Britain, and Nazi forced-labor camps for Jews in Trawniki, [...]