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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 05:52 AM
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Benedict XVI's thoughts about the Nazis.
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Under Hitler, Ratzinger says he watched the Nazis twist and distort the truth. Their lies about Jews, about genetics, were more than academic exercises. People died by the millions because of them. The church’s service to society, Ratzinger concluded, is to stand for absolute truths that function as boundary markers: Move about within these limits, but outside them lies disaster.

http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/041699/041699a.htm

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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 05:59 AM
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 06:03 AM
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2. Rat is guy most responsible for covering up the pedophilia within the
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Catholic church. Do not trust what he *says* is the "truth". He's just saying that stuff because it would be unpopular to publicly say otherwise. His policies within the Catholic church have been very pro-Nazi, pro-authoritarian policies.

Part of his agenda as the new pope is to clean out the pews in America and start all over with folks who support *his* authoritarian views, instead. I suggest you help him clean out the American pews because if the bishops and cardinals are authoritarian enough to pick Rat as the pope then after Rat is done picking more bishops and cardinals you can bet that the next pope will be even more pro-totalitarian.
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glaucon Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 06:10 AM
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3. The Nazis

believed they'd found "absolute truths" not long before they exterminated millions of innocents. The belief in "absolute truths" is always the first step in "absolute solutions."
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 06:28 AM
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4. Is The "Culture Of Evil" An Absolute Truth?
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