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I was at first as outraged as everybody else
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by the popes opening remarks as soon as he
landed in Edinburgh
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blaming atheists
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for the atrocities of Hitler and the others
of the twentieth century
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but then I took comfort from it because it
seemed to me that
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in a way it was showing we had rattled them
so much
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[Cheering]
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that he was forced to the ignominious expedient
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of attacking us
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so as to divert attention from the real crimes
that have been committed in the name of the
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catholic church
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I can just imagine
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I can just imagine the discussions
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in the corridors of Vatican power How are
we going to distract them
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from buggering boys?
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and the answer came
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why dont we attack secularists. Why dont we
attack atheists
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why dont we blame them for
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Hitlerism
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Adolf Hitler was a Roman Catholic
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[Cheering]
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He was baptised, he never renounced his baptism
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The figure of five million British Catholics
is presumably obtained
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from baptism figures
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I dont believe a word of it I dont believe
there are five or six million British Catholics
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there maybe five or six million who have been
baptized
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but if the church wants to claim them as Catholics
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then they have to claim Hitler as a Catholic.
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[Cheering]
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At the very least, Hitler believed in
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a personified providence
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he often spoke of it
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and it was presumably the same providence
which was invoked by the
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Cardinal Arch Bishop of Munich in 1939
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when Hitler escaped assassination and the
cardinal ordered a special Te Deum in Munich
Cathedral
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quote To thank Divine Providence
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in the name of the Archdiocese for the Fuhrerís
fortunate escape
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Im going to read a speech
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made in Munich the heart of a Catholic Bavaria
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in nineteen twenty two
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and Iíll leave you to guess
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whose speech it is
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My feeling as a Christian points me to my
Lord and Saviour as a fighter
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It points me to the man who once in loneliness
surrounded by a few followers
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recognized these Jews for what they were and
summoned men to fight against them and who
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Gods truth was greatest not as a sufferer
but as a fighter
3:14
In boundless love as a Christian and as a
man I read through the passage
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which tells us how the Lord at last rose in
His might
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and seized the scourge to drive out of the
Temple the brood of vipers and adders
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How terrific was his fight against the Jewish
poison
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today after two thousand years
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with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly
than ever before the fact that it
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was for this that
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He had to shed his blood
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upon the cross
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That was one of numerous speeches by Adolf
Hitler
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passages in Mein Kampf
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where Adolf Hitler invoked his own Roman Catholic
Christianity
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no wonder he received such warm support from
within the catholic hierarchy of Germany
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Even if Hitler had been an atheist as Stalin
surely was
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how dare Ratzinger suggest that atheism has
any connection whatsoever with their
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horrific deeds
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Any more than Hitler and Stalins non-belief
in leprechauns or unicorns
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Any more than their sporting of a moustache
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along with Franco and Saddam Hussein
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there is no logical pathway
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from atheism to wickedness
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unless that is
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you are steeped in the vile obscenity at the
heart of catholic theology
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I refer to the doctrine of original sin
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these people believe and they teach this to
tiny children at the same time as they teach
them
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the terrifying falsehood of hell
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that every baby is born in sin
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that would be Adams sin by the way, Adam which
they themselves now admit never actually existed
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original sin means that from the moment we
are born we are wicked, corrupt, damned
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unless we believe in their god or unless we
fall for the carrot of heaven and the stick
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of hell
5:22
That ladies and gentlemen is the disgusting
theory that leads them to presume
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that it was godlessness that made Hitler and
Stalin the monsters that they were
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We are all monster unless redeemed by Jesus
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What a revolting, depraved, inhuman theory
to base your life on
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[Cheering]
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Joseph Ratzinger is an
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enemy of humanity
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[Cheering]
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He is an enemy of children whose bodies heís
allowed to be raped
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and minds he has encouraged to be infected
with guilt
6:10
Its embarrassingly clear that the church is
less concerned with
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saving Childs bodies from rapist than saving
priestly souls from hell and most concerned
with saving the long-time reputation
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of the church itself
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[Cheering]
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He is an enemy of gay people, bestowing on
them the bigotry that the church used to reserve
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for Jews before Nineteen Sixty Two
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He is an enemy of women baring them from the
priesthood as those a penis was an essential
tool for pastoral
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duties
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[Cheering]
6:56
He is an enemy of truth, promoting bare-faced
lies about condoms
7:00
not protecting from Aids, especially in Africa
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[Cheering]
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He is an enemy of the poorest people on the
planet
7:12
condemning them to inflated families that
they cannot feed
7:15
so keeping them in the bondage of perpetual
poverty
7:22
A Poverty which sits ill beside the obscene
wealth of the Vatican
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[Cheering]
7:29
He is an enemy of science obstructing the
vital stem cell research
7:34
on grounds not of true morality but on pre-scientific
superstition
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[Cheering]
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Ratzinger is even an enemy
7:45
He is even an enemy of the Queens own church
7:49
Arrogantly dissing Anglican orders as quote
absolutely null and utterly void
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while at the same time shamelessly trying
to poach Anglican Vicars
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to shore up his own pitifully declining priesthood
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[Cheering]
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Finally
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perhaps of most personal concern to me Ratzinger
is an enemy of education
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Quite apart from
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quite apart from the lifelong psychological
damage
8:28
caused by the guilt and fear that has made
Catholic education infamous throughout the
world
8:34
He and his church
8:35
foster the educationally pernicious doctrine
that evidence
8:40
is a less reliable basis for belief than faith
8:43
tradition
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revelation and authority
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His authority
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Thank you very much Richard Dawkins
