--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mervyn > Thanks for your appreciative comments on Hitler as a > Catholic. > It was a response particularly to Peter D'Souza. I > had previously noted his intelligent commentary and > consideration on GX even though we are on > opposite sides of the political spectrum. I should > dearly like to receive a response from him to help > continue the debate so that we are all enlightened > about an intriguing topic. > Mario observes: > In analysing Cornel's "contentions" it is important to remember the context of his closely held beliefs, which include a) a dogmatic belief that all truth, even scientific truth, is "provisional", and b) that historic facts can be defined and re-defined as convenient. > This is only to show that Cornel comes from the absolute height of moral relativism as we see here in his determined effort to "prove" that the diabolical Hitler was a practicing Catholic. This is part of his attempt to deflect attention away from the fact that while Hitler was credited with taking some 11 million innocent lives, the avowed communist atheists like Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot are credited with taking over 50 million innocent lives. > If the religion-bashers among the atheists on Goanet can define Hitler as a Catholic when he did not live by a single tenet of the rock solid Catholic moral code, then similarly the well known and avowed atheists and agnostics on Goanet could be called devout Catholics and Hindus, both of which would be equally absurd. >
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