Interesting that the Pope should associate atheists with nazism. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say:
‘Hitler often associated atheism with Germany’s communist enemy. Hitler stated in a speech to the Stuttgart February 15, 1933: “Today they say that Christianity is in danger, that the Catholic faith is threatened. My reply to them is: for the time being, Christians and not international atheists are now standing at Germany’s fore. I am not merely talking about Christianity; I confess that I will never ally myself with the parties which aim to destroy Christianity. Fourteen years they have gone arm in arm with atheism. At no time was greater damage ever done to Christianity than in those years when the Christian parties ruled side by side with those who denied the very existence of God. Germany’s entire cultural life was shattered and contaminated in this period. It shall be our task to burn out these manifestations of degeneracy in literature, theater, schools, and the press—that is, in our entire culture—and to eliminate the poison which has been permeating every facet of our lives for these past fourteen years.” ‘
Now who does that remind me of? ‘Manifestations of degeneracy’, ‘poison permeating every facet…’, ‘cultural life contaminated’. Maybe I got the wrong Wikipedia page but that sounds like the ramblings of the Catholic Church!
A classic case of kettle and pope!
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