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Pope Compares Atheists to Nazis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11332515

Cheeky Fucker.

I call Godwin. The discussion is over. Bring me the head of Benedict XVI

Tags: Atheist, Benedict, Britain, Catholic, Extreme, God, Nazi, Pope

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Permalink Reply by Zero_6ix on September 16, 2010 at 12:03pm

No no no, this is a case of it taking one to know one. Who better to single out nazis than a nazi? I don't think Godwin has much sway in locating the pope's old war buddies. His spokesman said it the best!

"I think the Pope knows rather well what the Nazi ideology is".

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Permalink Reply by Richard Healy on September 16, 2010 at 1:43pm

Truer words were never spoken.

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Permalink Reply by Goz on September 21, 2010 at 11:37pm

i agree. he is just hoping none of the sheep bother to ask Google if he's being honest.
He had to know people like Dawkins would have a response though.

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Permalink Reply by chaotic_interference_processor on September 16, 2010 at 12:17pm

Just read this on BBC myself. His bloody church was complicit in many Nazi crimes, if not by direct involvement, then by turning its many heads the other way. The British Humanist Association's reply was very succinct. So now the Catholic church has basically resorted to namecalling to call on it's peurile masses to equate atheism with Nazism. This really, really, pisses me off.

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Permalink Reply by chaotic_interference_processor on September 16, 2010 at 12:40pm

'The Popemobile: Because nothing says "I have faith in God" like 3 inches of bulletproof glass.'

Bill Hicks

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Permalink Reply by ryan cameron on September 16, 2010 at 12:57pm

Like!

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Permalink Reply by Richard Healy on September 16, 2010 at 1:46pm

I can't really bring myself to anger. More incandescent amusement. Is that the best insult he has?

Apart from being factually and historically inaccurate, it's the kind of extreme comment we've come to expect from this lot.

And in that sense looses some of it's 'punch'

Hear that lads? The conspiratorial kiddy fucker is calling us Nazis. Bring it on Blondy.

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Permalink Reply by Lindsey S. on September 16, 2010 at 12:40pm

What else would you expect from the Catholic church? The truth? Please. If catholics cared about reality, there wouldn't be any catholics.

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Permalink Reply by Fabio on September 16, 2010 at 1:13pm

When a picture says more than a thousand words.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Healy on September 16, 2010 at 1:49pm

or just 99...

"We can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews.

"I also recall the regime's attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives.

"As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the 20th century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society," he added.

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Permalink Reply by Zero_6ix on September 16, 2010 at 2:20pm

In 1941, according to the diary of Nazi General Gerhart Engel, Hitler stated "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." (wiki)

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