National Secular Society - Cardinal covering violence and

Posted: Friday 18 may 2012 12: 13

In a speech to the Anglican cathedral of Leicester, the former head of Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, said that "secular values" behind the violence in the totalitarian States some of the conflicts of the 20th century that killed millions.

"Our danger in Britain today is that the so-called Western reason argues that it is the only recognized what is right and he claims therefore together what is contrary to freedom", he said. "Nobody is obliged to be a Christian." But no one should be obliged to live according to the new secular religion as if it only were final and binding for all humanity. »

He said: "the propaganda of secularism and its priests want us to believe that religion is dangerous to our health." It suits them to have no objection to their vision of a brave new world, the world they see somewhat governed only by people like them. They conveniently forget that secularism itself does not guarantee freedom, rationality … or violence. Indeed, in the last century, more violence was perpetrated by secular States on their own people. »

He said that a loss of "reverence" for humanity means that some of the most vulnerable people in society are now commonly considered a "problem" or the "threat".

Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society, said: "Cardinal Murphy O'Connor is simply familiar echo of the Vatican and false line that"secularism"is the enemy of religion.". This is certainly the enemy of religion who seek power, as for the current version of the Vatican of Catholicism, but it confirms the rights of believers to practise their religion freely and without interference. His presentation of Christianity as being under attack is a familiar and yet completely little convincing. It is part of a campaign larger to reaffirm the Catholic influence. »

Mr. Sanderson continued: "Murphy O'Connor said that the high priests of secularism cannot guarantee freedom of violence or immorality."

"But we must never forget that Mr. Murphy O'Connor, himself is guilty of shamefully, covering part of the most horrific crimes of a paedophile priest when he was Archbishop of Arundel and Brighton - allowing the author to continue to abuse children in other parishes." Why Murphy O'Connor has never been justice on this remains a mystery. »

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