“I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.”
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Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, ' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
