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To: TSgt
That's your source??? What, was Al the guy that works at Goodyear changing tires busy? The Klan website down? Jack Chick Publications not online? Hell, I'd have more respect for you if you got it from the Communist Party Archives.
“How the Pope of Peace Traded in Blood” by Joseph McCabe.

So who was that guy? Well, here is his bio from the same source:
“Joseph McCabe
[ 1867 - 1955 ]

One of the giants of not only English atheism, but world atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works— he wrote nearly 250 books—could constitute a library of atheism by themselves.

Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896.

Not long afterwards, he began to write—first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10,1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was: “He was a rebel to his last day.”

Yea, real good sourcing there pal! No bias there! Impeccable scholarship, no doubt.
Oh, hey, here's a quote right back at you from Jewish Virtual Library. They aren't fans of Pope Pius XII either. But, they were honest, sourced their quotes, and weren't pulling stuff out of their butts to put online. It is what he spoke to 250,000 pilgrims at Lourdes in 1935:

“They [The Nazis] are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of the social revolution, whether they are guided by a false conception of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult.”

Revisionism has to be fought no matter what the topic. I usually have to do it on the Civil War threads. I don't mind widening the range a bit. It helps keep bigots in line or at least show innocent bystanders they can, and should be opposed.

24 posted on 07/07/2010 8:40:24 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: IrishCatholic
That's your source??? What, was Al the guy that works at Goodyear changing tires busy? The Klan website down? Jack Chick Publications not online? Hell, I'd have more respect for you if you got it from the Communist Party Archives.

Let me remind you as well not to make it personal.

Throw out the quote and source if you like, the fact remains that the church signed a treaty with Hitler, Reichskonkordat, to save its neck at the expense of others.
27 posted on 07/07/2010 8:44:14 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: IrishCatholic
Have a good look at the photo shown in post #5.

It isn't even Pius XII.

31 posted on 07/07/2010 8:49:02 AM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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