by Karen on April 13, 2009
The bishop of Augsburg had a special message to share with his flock this past Sunday. It was atheists who were behind the killing machine known to the world as Nazi Germany.
From Spiegel Online:
A Catholic German bishop has come under fire for his remarks condemning atheists. In a sermon given on Easter Sunday, the bishop of Augsburg, Walter Mixa, warned of rising atheism in Germany. “Wherever God is denied or fought against, there people and their dignity will soon be denied and held in disregard,” he said in the sermon. He also said that “a society without God is hell on earth” and quoted the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
Most controversially, he linked the Nazi and Communist crimes to atheism. “In the last century, the godless regimes of Nazism and Communism, with their penal camps, their secret police and their mass murder, proved in a terrible way the inhumanity of atheism in practice.” Christians and the Church were always the subject of “special persecution” under these systems, he said.
This isn’t the first time the bishop has caused a ruckus. He’s went after the Jews (ironic, yes?) by comparing what Nazi Germany did to them to abortion and Palestine. He also appears to like calling anyone who criticizes him Nazis.
by Karen on February 4, 2008
The German Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth is upset about a atheistic book for kids, charging that the book ridicules the religions of Yahweh (like any of them need help in that department).
Of course, there’s no record of the slightest bit of outrage over the thousands of pro-Yahweh books, movies and toys aimed at children.
I’ve yet to come across a list of ‘books your kid shouldn’t read’ that contains the insanely violent books we call the Bible despite it’s description of a gang rape that killed the woman and whose body was butchered and shipped around the holy kingdom. But a book in which a hedgehog says “I think that God doesn’t even exist.” should be on such a list?
