after over 15,000 tweets, 981 twitter followers (carefully screened of course), my name on 228 twitter lists, 119 facebook friends, 58 wordpress posts, 178 comments (all approved), (still) average 15 visitors a day (?) and a bloody good time i am afraid the moment has come to retire Vizhnet definitively.

In a few days i will close down my twitter account, my facebook account, my wordpress blog and my vizhnet gmail address.

Trust me, i have my reasons. And they are all good.

Thank you.

Vizhnet

Tunesia, Egypt. Time for a change.

Without going to much detail i have to say that due to various reasons i am simply unable to be as active as i used to be. At this point in time i can not say that this will change any time soon. Or at all.

So until one day.

Be good and be well.

Vizhnet

If you feel the need to reach out email me at Vizhnet@Gmail.com as i will not be checking twitter, facebook and blog that often.

When Pope Ratzo Rizzo made his idiot atheist speech in the UK a while ago i wrote a little piece about it (about 14 people actually read it) called “Hitlers boooy, pope Ratzinger! – the speech”. I used the following picture to liven up the post. In this wellknown picture the current Pope dude is giving the wellknown Nazi salut.

Now, nowhere in my piece i suggested that the Pope was a hardened fanatical Nazi when he was young. I merely mentioned that he was a member of the Hitler Youth during the war. So i’m not going to change 1 word of the original article (i don’t have to). But i do feel that it”s necessary to rectify the use of this picture. Looking at it now it does seem a bit strange that it’s suggested that the young Pappo de tutti Pappy is giving us the Nazi salut in a priest robe. And it doesn’t actually look like he’s a teenager in this picture does it?

This is what the 14 year old Ratzo looked like in his ‘Jugend’ days. (Are you getting the same, ‘damien/the omen/scary drums’ type vibe from this picture?)

So what went wrong? Well, this went wrong. Of course people with a strong dislike for Vatican (like myself) are all too eager to accept these kinds of pictures as factual. But, as i mention above, if we think a little bit harder we must come to the conclusion that there is something not entirely correct about this picture. Well, as i learned from Diego’s blog, it’s a picture from 1951 when Ratzinger was being ordained as a priest. Popeboy ‘left’ the Hitler Jugend in ’45 and 6 years later, at the ripe old age of 24 he was ordained as a Catholic priest. This is a part of a picture of the ceremony. And as is the custom during an ordaining ceremony, he was raising 2 arms. And so was his smiling brother next to him. Mystery solved.

To my opinion he’s still a fascistic, lying, manipulating and megalomaniac sack of evil, but the Nazi salut picture should not be used in relation to the Pope’s involvement with the Nazi regime anymore. The Vatican and former Pope’s however…… don’t get me started!! Just read my last post about it!!

So i agree with Diego : If we truly care about truth and facts, (we should) just drop the idea (of the whole Ratzinger-Nazi link). There’s enough terrible but FACTUAL stuff to write about the Vatican and their relationship with the Nazi regime.

V ∞

Source article : the New York Times Article about Ratzinger’s youth.

Definitaly a 1 arm Nazi salut in this picture. :-)

The entire speech is pretty boring and basically it’s all mindless vatican PR dribble. (Probably written by the pope’s under 18 writing crew)

Here’s the bit that matters.

(..) in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny (1) that wished to eradicate God from society (2) and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live (3). I also recall the regime’s attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives (4). As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century (5), let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny” (Caritas in Veritate, 29). (…)

Weeeeell,

1. Britain and her leaders stood against ‘a’ Nazi tyranny.

True. And the vatican, however, did not. The vatican and pope Pius XII were quite an active bunch during the Nazi regime. Not like the British though. The British actually fought back and took a shot at defeating the Nazis. Tally Ho. That and the current Pope was a member of the Hitler Jugend.

2. The Nazis tyranny wished to eradicate god from society.

Eehm. Nope. That’s a lie and the pope is trying to change historical facts. You do not even have to be a non-believer to know that this is a complete lie. The Nazis wanted their particular brand(s) of religion to rule over all the others. Furthermore, we all know that it is a fact that, besides being absolutely stark raving mad, Adolf Hitler was a religious person and that he stated that he was on a mission from god. Furthermore the relationship between the vatican and the Nazis is amazingly well documented and available. Even though one could probably find an atheist here in there in Nazi history, there is absolutely no evidence that an ‘atheist’ world view played ANY part in Nazi ideology.

3. (the Nazis) denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live.

First of all, i think the words “our common humanity” are pretty interesting. Obviously the papo the tuti papi means a completely different kind of ‘common humanity’ than, for instance, normal people would. ‘Common humanity’ to the pope would mean no homosexuality, attending (his) church, no sex before marriage, no birth control or condoms to prevent the spread of aids. Common humanity to me means absolutely equality for any sexual preference, no more church, a big yes to birth control and an even bigger yes to allowing condoms and education with regards to the HIV virus. We’re worlds apart on that one i think.

- So i bet you did not know that back in 1555 Pope Paul IV issues a law that forced Jews live in seclusion in a specified area of the rione Sant’Angelo, locked in at night in 1555. And he decreed that Jews should wear a distinctive sign. A yellow hat for men and veils or shawls for women. Jewish ghettos existed in Europe for the next 315 years). He said this :

“As it is completely absurd and improper in the utmost that the Jews, who through their own fault were condemned by God to eternal servitude, can under the pretext that pious Christians must accept them and sustain their habitation, are so ungrateful to Christians, as, instead of thanks for gracious treatment, they return contumely, and among themselves, instead of the slavery, which they deserve”… Pope Paul IV.

- I bet you also did not know about the Ratlines? At the end of the war, top Catholic officers organized these so-called ratlines that allowed Nazi war criminals to flee towards South America and other destinations via Spain. Bishop Alois Hudal and Cardinals Luigi Maglione, Eugene Tisserant and Antonio Caggiano, as well as the Roman Seminar in San Girolamo degli Illirici of Father Krunoslav Draganović were specially active in this task. Thousands of presumed European Catholic immigrants, actually Nazis in disguise, were able to escape from Europe using these networks.

4. I also recall the regime’s attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives.

I bet he recalls it. Seeing what and where he was at the time.

But it is also true. The Nazi’s must have killed 1.000′s of religious people. There must have been Catholic clergymen among them. Of course the Nazis basically killed anyone and everyone who did not agree with them or that had more power than they did.

The Nazis killed over 6 Mln Jews. A total of 56 to 72 Mln non -Jewish people were killed. And that’s not even counting the 7 to 8 Mln people on the German side that didn’t get to see 1946.

5. Reflecting on the ‘sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century’.

This line is right after all the bits about what the nazi’s did to christians, denying common human rights and the other stuff. So basically he’s thereby insinuating that the Nazis were, in fact, ‘atheist extremists’. And thereby insinuation that not the Nazis, but their ‘atheist extremism’ is responsible for one of the (or maybe the), biggest crimes against humanity of all time. And thereby he is insinuating that ‘atheists’ could be, or will be responsible for the next big crime against humanity. So he’s basically stacking insinuation upon insinuation upon insinuation based on a complete and hideous fallacy. He’s basically planting seeds within the religious community to be able to blame the problems of the world on ‘the atheist’ from now on. And since ‘the atheist’ is already responsible for WWII who knows what else ‘the atheist’ is capable of. Now where have we seen these words and methods before? How about putting all ‘the atheists’ into special camps and make them wear special cloths? Maybe sporting a fancy scarlet letter A on the chest?

“Alter Boy, future pope and Nazi youth : Ratzinger”

So it’s worse. Pope Ratbag did not compare Nazis to atheists. He didn’t say atheists are Nazis. He said that atheism and atheist extremism were responsible for WWII and gawd knows what other problems in the twentieth century. Atheists are the new Jews and not Nazis. Pope Ratzinger is a criminal Fascist with a hidden agenda and not the peace loving spiritual leader he wants us to think he is.

I’ll be closely watching this fascist, lying, manipulating and megalomaniac sack of evil very carefully. Hope you will too.

V ∞

wiki sources

Catholic Church and Nazi Germany

Pope Paul IV – the yellow hat man

Ratlines

WWII death numbers

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Dear Paul,

please read this totally original letter that i wrote exclusively for you. :-). I wrote (just for you) because of your tweets about the talking serpent.

i’m wondering. Why does having less then 100% definative proof for something like the origin of life, the universe or evolution validate accepting an alternative explanation so ridiculously unrealistic it makes the story of Snowwhite and the 7 dwarfs sound like ‘it could have happened’.

Why do you, ‘of all people’, demand proof. You should not demand proof. You are in no position to demand proof. You should be investing your time and energy in building your own case. If you think your alternative is a better option than the currently accepted explanation, go for it. Don’t claim a certain theory is wrong and offer less then nothing as a substitute.

The description of ‘the theory of evolution’ by means of natural selection by mister Darwin was not ‘invented’ to disrupt or counter the religious views on the development of life on this planet. It did, but that was not its purpose. It was noticed, investigated and described. It stands on its own. While other totally unscientific approaches like creationism/ID are merely a ridiculous attempt to explain everything towards the tiring ‘god did it’.

While science starts its quests where it should (the start) and is not afraid of not knowing where the journey takes us or answers that might destroy the ones we accepted as ‘likely to be true’, your religion basically fills in the answer (god did it) and shapes all the questions to point to this answer. Now what’s intelligent about that?

Try reading books. Good books. I suggest Bertrand Russell.

Vizhnet