Declaration for today

I am tired and I want a cuddle.

Never More

Well, my rant button's been pressed again. Oh, I'm not in a bad mood - all those hugs and smiles and cuddles and cocoa, how could I be? Thank you:-) but I should stop watching the news, reading the internet...in fact, I should run off to middle-earth or Narnia or be anywhere except here, because every single week something happens to set the raven in my head off. Here's a lovely little gem for the pagans among us:

( Benny blames the pagans )

We cannot be sure of the influence of whatever it is Ratzinger means by 'neo-paganism' on Hitler, but we know where the Catholic Church stood on the matter.


[NB: I have not extensively checked the article sources pertaining to the below; these are just copies, so do not take them as in depth analyses without further research]


( Hitler's Concordat with the Catholic Church (1933) - abridged because I'm lazy, but still too long )

Below are two articles; the first detailing the depth of Pope Pius XII's collusion, potential anti-semitism and anti-bolshevism (he seems to have linked the two) or at least, non-hostility towards Hitler. It makes disturbing reading.

http://emperors-clothes.com/vatican/hitlers.htm

Below is the counter argument, mentioning the denunciations the Church did make, the good work that was done, the work that should not be forgotten:

http://www.chivalricorders.org/vatican/piusXII.htm

Whether or not we agree that Pope Pius XII was making the best of an impossible situation, it is clear that 'Neo-Paganism' was not the enemy here. It wasn't Gerald Gardner or Alex Saunders who felt that they had to extend friendship, seeming or otherwise, to Hitler. It wasn't the Wickedest Man in the World, Mr 'cognac, cunt and cocaine' Crowley himself, who accepted a large financial gift from Mussolini.

What lesson has been learnt? The Vatican has kept quiet on this matter for decades, and is this their answer? To find a more acceptable outsider to unify the faithful in hatred?

I trust those who know me will know I mean no disrespect to the words of Christ or Moses. And of course there are some who will read this and think, 'Who cares what the old fart says?'

But the truth is, clever little propaganda tricks like this have been manipulating us into hating each other for centuries. We can't afford these games any more. If there is any such thing as spiritual or social evolution, the cult of the scapegoat has to die. And in trying to revive and reshape it, Ratzinger has shown who his real spiritual forefathers are.