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Originally Posted by photon
Just like it's predictable what some people will post in response?
Someone get the memo out to the atheists, next time the Pope says something that's intolerant and historically inaccurate to spread ignorance to puff up his own viewpoint, everyone keep in mind that there are some good moral practices and teachings of the Catholic church so don't say anything about it ok?
Talk about eye-rolling...
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You're right, let's look at what was actually said:
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Even in our own lifetime, 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, who were thought unfit to live. 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 twentieth 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 and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny” (Caritas in Veritate, 29).
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What if God meant "Good?" A representation of ideal justice and the illumination of a society's values and perception of the Good Life. The Nazis were godless in the sense that they were nihilists; they destroyed merely to destroy with the false rationality that the destruction of the Jews would somehow validate the experience of the Nazis as the Aryan Master Race. Philosophically, following this argument, we can see that the Nazis weren't Christians of any kind, but were merely evil. We can also see that liberal atheism does not have the intellectual heft or moral understanding to understand this issue appropriately.
Modern atheists are essentially bourgeous ideologues. Dangerous behavior is lumped into a single category with little distinction as to why or how it functionalizes itself in human life. Thus, to atheists, religion is the cause of all irregular human behavior, Nazism was clearly irregular, and atheism is safe, generally tolerant behavior. Ergo, Nazism must have more in common with religion than it does with atheism.
The ethics of God-believing are far more important than the cheap refutation of God-believing. The predictable sneering of atheists at the mere mention of the Pope's name is ridiculous and frankly, it's not even original.