it hard to write off Paul as a curmudgeon. As Jacques Maritain, originator of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said after World War II, “We must have faith in man. But we cannot.… The present world of man has been for us a revelation of evil; it has shattered our confidence.… Our vision of man has been covered over by the unforgettable image of the bloody ghosts in extermination camps.”2 It would be easy (and self-serving) to single out the Nazis, some who dropped Zyklon B canisters
Page 16