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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012800896.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=ahkOWWZCaAQ4&refer=europe
On January 28th, Pope Benedict XVI issued a public statement apologizing to the Jews for the comment made by British bishop, Richard Williamson. Williamson and four other bishops were excommunicated back in 1988 by Pope John Paul II, for resisting reforms of the Vatican II. Williamson had publicly said on Swedish television that the gas chambers in concentration camps did not exist along with the rest of the Holocaust. This angered both religious and non-religious groups. Many have expressed their outrage against the bishop's statement and therefor prompted the Pope to publicly apologize for the comments.
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wow, i cant believe that a bishop said that! thats horrific and infuriating on so many levels. i don't know whether to be shocked, surprised, or hateful. personally, i don't believe in religion, but i do have Jewish heritage and this comment is beyond the lowest possible level of intelligence. there is so much proof that gas chambers among other horrible things were used by the Nazis in the holocaust. it takes someone who is very closed minded and extremely uneducated to say such an absurd comment. the fact that it was a bishop and he was allowed back into the Vatican just scares me, because the current pope was a Nazi, although by force. i feel as though all of religion just contradicts itself and are hypocrites to their own rules in so many instances such as this one. its pathetic and scary.
ReplyDeleteHow are you surprised at that. The Pope wants to come off as this trusting and forgiving old man and get people to follow his Religion.
ReplyDeleteLike Adam said, he was apologizing to the public because of what Richard Williamson had said. And yes it does take a closed-minded person to say those types of things when we do in fact have the evidence that supports the atrocities.
ReplyDeleteI just find it rather disturbing that someone could deny the horrors of the Holocaust, especially when we have so much evidence that it existed. I was raised Catholic myself, and obviously the Pope made the right decision in excommunicating this man, but really, that is just horrifying to know that people are still in denial about the Holocaust.
ReplyDelete"To ignore history is to ignore the future even when it's happening to you every second and to ignore the future is to ignore your own existence." I beieve this to be true after all if you have documented evidence and eyewitness reports then this goes to show that people who ignore these things truly are fools who ignore the fact that bad things happen so that we know not to do them in the future and ignoring these very facts shows how fearful and foolish people can become of the truth.
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