Respected Member of Catholic Church in "Talking Sense" Shocker
Well, almost...
The Archbishop of Westminster has urged Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with "deep esteem".
Believers may be partly responsible for the decline in faith by losing sense of the mystery and treating God as a "fact in the world", he said in a lecture.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor called for more understanding and appreciation between believers and non-believers.
A high-up member of the church admitting that points of view diametrically opposed to his own are may also be valid? Blimey! Normally the church spends more time describing atheism as a terrible evil and making comparisons between atheists and Hitler.
He expressed concern about the increasing unpopularity of the Christian voice in public life, saying: "Our life together in Britain cannot be a God-free zone and we must not allow Britain to become a world devoid of religious faith and its powerful contribution to the common good."
Societies ruled only by reason were like those created by Hitler and Stalin, ripe for "terror and oppression", he said.
Oops. Never mind. Not sure I quite agree with the assertion that Hitler's extermination of the Jews was driven by reason. Doesn't seem particularly reasonable to me.
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