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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Most importantly, the Nazis were
German.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>That fact explains the lion's share of the
variance.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jencart13@yahoo.com href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">Jenifer
Cartwright</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 20, 2010 1:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Richard
Dawkins Furious At Pope For TyingGodless To Nazis</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Have at it, folks.
<DIV> --Jenifer<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 9/19/10,
fransears<I>></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Richard Dawkins Furious At Pope For Tying Godless
To Nazis<BR><BR>Posted in Liberaland by Alan • September 17,
2010,<BR><BR>Pope Benedict’s speech to Queen Elizabeth in England
praised how<BR>Britain fought “Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate
God from<BR>society,” prompting one of the world’s best known
atheists, Richard<BR>Dawkins, to proclaim it “a despicable
outrage.” What set off Dawkins<BR>is this paragraph:<BR><BR>“Even in
our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders<BR>stood
against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from
society<BR>and denied our common humanity to many, especially the
Jews, who were<BR>thought unfit to live. I also recall the regime’s
attitude to<BR>Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in
love, opposed<BR>the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their
lives. As we reflect<BR>on the sobering lessons of the atheist
extremism of the twentieth<BR>century, let us never forget how the
exclusion of God, religion and<BR>virtue from public life leads
ultimately to a truncated vision of man<BR>and of society and thus to
a “reductive vision of the person and his<BR>destiny” (Caritas in
Veritate, 29).”<BR><BR>Dawkins responds:<BR><BR>Even if Hitler had
been an atheist, his political philosophy was not<BR>based upon
atheism and had no connection with atheism. Hitler was<BR>arguably
(and by his own account) a Roman Catholic. In any case he<BR>enjoyed
the open support of many of the most senior catholic clergy
in<BR>Germany and the less demonstrative support of Pope Pius XII.
Even if<BR>Hitler had been an atheist (he certainly was not), the rank
and file<BR>Germans who carried out the attempted extermination of the
Jews were<BR>Christians, almost to a man: either Catholic or Lutheran,
primed to<BR>their anti-Semitism by centuries of Catholic propaganda
about<BR>‘Christ-killers’ and by Martin Luther’s own seething hatred
of the<BR>Jews. To mention Ratzinger’s membership of the Hitler Youth
might be<BR>thought to be fighting dirty, but my feeling is that the
gloves are<BR>off after this disgraceful paragraph by the
pope.<BR><BR>Dawkins is urging a letter-writing campaign to British
media in protest, adding:<BR><BR>I am incandescent with rage at the
sycophantic BBC coverage, and the<BR>sight of British toadies bowing
and scraping to this odious man. I<BR>thought he was bad before. This
puts the lid on
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