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Octavious I have read the whole article, I've also read the article in the Telegraph, on the BBC news site, and on three other news sites including Reuters.
Yes I am an athiest - so what? The point I was trying to make is that I am so utterly sick and tired of religious apologists attempting to rewrite history to make out that christians are nothing but peace-loving, non-violent saints when there are endless examples of the exact opposite. I know there are many many christians who are peace-loving and non-violent but equally there many many athiests who are the same. What the Pope is saying is no different from the tv evangelists in the US who blamed hurricane Katriana on the "non-believers".
People are people - some are good, some are not - believe in a god has nothing to do with it. What I object to is being told that because I do not believe in a god of any kind that I therefore must have no morals, not know right from wrong, have no compunction about commiting crimes and have no hope and nothing to live for.