P. Courvel
Obnubilis Contractum
The Catholic Church enjoys a privileged status in the West that I think is not deserved and anachronic. To put it bluntly I think it should be listed as a terrorist organization like Al Qaeda. It has a far worse record than Al Qaeda. The Inquisition killed hundreds of thousands of people. Al Qaeda has killed a few thousands. The Catholic Church launched its own holy war, the Crusades, that also caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. It's comparable to the Islamic jihad that has so bad press today.
I think that the Vatican should not be recognized as a sovereign state anymore. It's tantamount to recognising the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. No, it's worse since the Talibans didn't kill hundreds of thousands or caused terror among free thinkers for hundreds of years. It's one thing for believers to recognize the authority of their church, but quite another for secular governments to recognize the sovereignty and treat with respect a religious organization with a heavy past.
The Holocaust was also sponsored by the Catholic Church. Hitler was himself a Roman Catholic till his death and had the blessings of the Vatican to eliminate the infidels from Europe.
Israel is a state with religious connotation too. But contrarily to the Vatican it can be viewed as an ethnic state, for the Jews, not just the state of one religion. There is no Vatican ethnicity. It is very hypocritical to debate the right of existence of Israel and not the one of Vatican. Anybody who attacks Israel's right of existence should also attack the Vatican's. Muslims around the world will never convince anyone that Israel shouldn't be if they don't first stop recognizing the Vatican as a sovereign state.
I think that the Vatican should not be recognized as a sovereign state anymore. It's tantamount to recognising the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. No, it's worse since the Talibans didn't kill hundreds of thousands or caused terror among free thinkers for hundreds of years. It's one thing for believers to recognize the authority of their church, but quite another for secular governments to recognize the sovereignty and treat with respect a religious organization with a heavy past.
The Holocaust was also sponsored by the Catholic Church. Hitler was himself a Roman Catholic till his death and had the blessings of the Vatican to eliminate the infidels from Europe.
Israel is a state with religious connotation too. But contrarily to the Vatican it can be viewed as an ethnic state, for the Jews, not just the state of one religion. There is no Vatican ethnicity. It is very hypocritical to debate the right of existence of Israel and not the one of Vatican. Anybody who attacks Israel's right of existence should also attack the Vatican's. Muslims around the world will never convince anyone that Israel shouldn't be if they don't first stop recognizing the Vatican as a sovereign state.