“I don't want to hear about my death.”
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.