How delightful

It’s good to have diversity in thinking and for people to voice their opinions. But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Ehud Barak said that. Delightful.

It might prove alembic

Remember yesterday when I was upset at the Pope? Today it’s Bill Donohue:

The pope did not go far enough. Radical atheists like the British Humanist Association should apologize for Hitler. But they should not stop there. They also need to issue an apology for the 67 million innocent men, women and children murdered under Stalin, and the 77 million innocent Chinese killed by Mao. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all driven by a radical atheism, a militant and fundamentally dogmatic brand of secular extremism. It was this anti-religious impulse that allowed them to become mass murderers. By contrast, a grand total of 1,394 were killed during the 250 years of the Inquisition, most all of whom were murdered by secular authorities.

For an atheist, I try to stay as respectful as I can towards religion. I start by capitalizing the word “Pope” when I’m talking about the fucking Pope and I lay off calling the Catholic League president a cocksucker and child molester. But that’s just me. That’s just where I draw my line.

Ratz!

From Pope Benedict's speech to England:

Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live. 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. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, 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).

Now, I'm all for denouncing the crimes of the Nazis but maybe lumping all atheists in with with them is a bit much. I mean, that's kind of like saying all Catholics are pedophiles when it's really just the priests.