Just can't think of it.
The Pope is exactly right.
The atheists are not satisfied that they do not have to say a prayer; they will not be satisfied until they take that right and privilege away from everybody else.
Remarkable observation. If I had read this statement and didn't know who had said it, I'd have sworn it was from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
I am not a Roman Catholic, but sometimes the Pope is right on and I vehemently agree with his comment. Secularism in the post-modern era can easily morph into some kind of oppressive regime... Unfortunately, we have already embarked on that path and this secular liberal hijack of our country can only be reversed when Jews and Christians stand up to this reverse-discrimination of the two greatest faiths and contributors to the development of western civilization, bar none.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder and secularism ultimately leads to communism inevitably, in an effort where society needs to fill the gap that accountability and faith in a higher power so adequately fulfills.
I am more and more convinced of this with each passing day.
A lot of atheists certainly do seem unhealthily obsessed with controlling others’ beliefs. But saying it’s just because they’re evil, ill-willed Nazis is like a bad writer who can’t conceive of a character having more than one dimension.
I think a lot of atheists envy religious people, and long to take part the beauty, splendor, history, ritual, etc. of religion, but they think not being dead certain of the existence of God excludes them from it—they mistakenly think faith is the absence of doubt, when it is actually making peace with one’s doubts and choosing to believe in spite of them. Nevertheless, if they can’t have all that is wonderful about religion, they don’t want anyone else to have it, either.
Good article. This pope is an impressive man.
The notion that it was the atheism of Nazis that led to their extremist and hateful views or that it somehow fuels intolerance in Britain today is a terrible libel against those who do not believe in God.
No, it is spot on.
The notion that it is non-religious people in the UK today who want to force their views on others, coming from a man whose organisation exerts itself internationally to impose its narrow and exclusive form of morality and undermine the human rights of women, children, gay people and many others, is surreal."
Again, it is spot on. Aggressive atheism, which is what he is referring to, very much wants to dominate and exclude the God they don't believe in from the public square.
The Pope is the most profound thinker in our world today. What he claims is absolutely true, and being a German, he understood the socialism and godlessness that prevailed in the corrupt Wiemar Republic—homosexuality was considered the “National Vice” of the Germans by every other Nation that had to deal with their diplomats. They were always warned. The brownshirts and leaders of the NAZI party were mostly homosexual or had other sexual perversions like Hitler and hated Christianity because it condemned them. Hitler made the State god. You have to consider a country like that as atheistic and amoral....it certainly was not Christian.
The Pope sounds exactly like our Founding fathers....the need to believe our rights come from the Creator, and for all the Founders, virtue was synonymous with happiness—you can’t have happiness without virtue—not possible.
The Catholic Church aligned their beliefs to Natural Law through the brilliance of Thomas Aquinas which is the foundation of all our laws and rights.
Things which are against Natural Law can NOT be sanctioned—it is understood that laws that go against Natural Law are unjust. Progressives lie and say that Natural Law can “evolve” just like the Constitution.
What did he say about Fundamentalist Muslims?