Baroness Warsi has been subjected to the sneering contempt and patronizing dismissal of various UK atheists for daring to speak the truth about them and their efforts to force a totalitarian secularism on our country.
The British Humanist Association chief executive Andrew Copson dismissed the Baroness’ speech as being ”outdated, unwarranted and divisive”. [Copson proves the Baroness' point about their intolerant dismissal of anyone making the case for religion in public life]
Prof Richard Dawkins, former professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University, told the BBC News Channel: “She is obviously a person who really wants to push religion. She is not Christian herself but nevertheless she sees religion as a good thing – it doesn’t matter what religion as long as there’s some religion and that’s better than no religion.’ [Actually, Baroness Warsi doesn't believe that just any religion is good for Europe, but as a Muslim she recognizes the importance of Christianity to Europe's identity]
Terry Sanderson wrote on the NSS site:
‘So, who is out of step here? If you read the newspaper commentators it is most definitely the National Secular Society. But if you listen to the people, you’ll find that it is the pious politicians who seem to be threatening us with theocracy. Baroness Warsi led a delegation of senior British Government Ministers to the Vatican to have a 20 minute chat with the Pope. [If Sanderson had bothered to read Baroness Warsi's speech he would have noticed that she goes out of her way to say that she is not advocating a theocracy, but rather an affirmation Europe's Christian heritage and identity that Sanderson is] intolerantly campaigning to destroy.
Protect the Pope comment: Before Christmas PM David Cameron was on the receiving end of Dawkins and co’s sneering contempt for saying the UK was a Christian country, and now Baroness Warsi has earned their cudgel-blunt wit. Together Dawkins, Sanderson and Copson prove the point about sin being mind-numbingly boring.
Aw these poor atheists – how dare anybody ever stand up for religious rights and against agressive secularism. These secularists need to grow up and get a life, you don’t have to be religious, that is your decision but how about you stop forcing secularism on others.
I suggest you read this ( google translated) article ( with correction by me ) by AVVENIRE
Front Pages for false accusations to the Pope, nothing for dismissal
Where’s the news?
The way the newspapers covered the results of the so-called Murphy case shows that in the media world, our world, there is something wrong. The pages speak for themselves. On March 26, 2010, in the wake of the New York Times, the charges against the lawyer Jeff Anderson Benedict XVI and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and Angelo Sodano occupied a place of absolute importance in all the front pages of Italian newspapers. In a tone that seemed to mostly good for the serious accusation against the Pope and his collaborators. “The Pope covered the pedophile priest,” “pedophilia scandal now points directly to Ratzinger”, ” Ratzinger knew, Bertone ordered silence,” “Silence of abuses,” “Secrets and Lies,” “Pedophilia, storm the Pope.” Here’s what those first pages read. And in the days following rivers of ink continued to be shed to follow the story. A story that last Friday he had his legal term.
U.S. District Court jurisdiction to the same attorney Anderson has requested TO CLOSE THE CASE, in order to avoid presenting to the judges the response to the defense raised by the Holy See to seek dismissal of the case. And this involves, as the Advocate of the Holy See Jeffrey S. Lena, “the filing of the instant case, without the need for a judgment on the subject issued by the court.” In practice, demonstrating that the heavy charges brought against Pope Ratzinger two years ago were INCONSISTENT. So much so that the same lawyer Anderson, apparently more concerned with media-spectacular aspects of the case that the substantial, having been unable to prove his rambling dissertation has GIVEN IN to the legal battle and TO a tough defeat.
Well, this news, because news of it, which found space in our national media circle? The answer is simple: the “victory” court of the Holy See has been reported by Avvenire, by La Stampa and by Il Tempo Period. In the rest of the national newspapers it has not found space for a title neither on the front page, nor in those inside. The proportion with what happened on March 26 two years ago is dramatic. And unjustified. Vatican Radio commented bitterly: “It ended in a painful silence of the media tale of abuse that he wanted to involve the Pope and the Holy See.” The Church is facing with seriousness and tenacity the terrible drama of the abuses perpetrated inside the banner of “healing” and “renewal.”
And Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal was driving by when the former Holy Office, is strongly committed to pushing the entire church body in this direction: primary care to the victims of abuse and healing of the material and spiritual wounds that have devastated their lives; renewal in the structures, norms and church personnel – even with hard canonical regulations – to prevent the evil of the past be repeated today and tomorrow. It is right that the press will follow this process with a watchful eye and, when necessary, even critical. But it’s not right when they hide the news, you might think, does not jibe with their own negative bias toward the Church and the Pope Maybe today or maybe tomorrow, these lines will be disproved by the fact that the readers of Other newspapers will finally know how it ended the story that they learned from the first pages of the March 26, 2010. We would be the first to applaud. And above all it would be a good sign for our world of paper.
Here La Stampa article on the case ( this time this is the official translation, from the Vatican insider website.
As Avvenire says, only La Stampa , Il Tempo and Avvenire itself gave the news that the Vatican is not to be held responsible over the Murphy in Italy ,while all papers had given the news that there was a sue against the Vatican on this case, back in 2010
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/news/detail/articolo/stati-uniti-estados-unidos-united-states-12534/
Amazing how intolerant these “liberals” are, isn’t it?
The British Humanist Association is probably the Catholic Church’s greatest enemy because it is an organized group of people who have the opposite view of the world…a view that looks at the Church as the enemy of mankind because we make people waste their lives on worrying about an illusory afterlife. We might also be able to say the BHA and Masonry (the head of the serpent) are our greatest enemies for the inverse reason. We do care about the afterlife. This is why Leo XIII is such an important Pope..humanum genus and libertas are excellent encylicals…
Jon, Leo XIii’s prayer to St MIchael is essential for our age. Deacon Nick