My Words, My Space

you really couldn’t make this up.

relevant links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

it’s also very hard to be grown up here, and ignore the fact that pope ratzinger was in the hitler youth. although in some respects, that’s possibly because he’s also guilty of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

overall, you know, i don’t particularly identify as an atheist, it’s not something i think about a great deal, and i’ve certainly got no problem with people of any belief, they’re just equal with everyone else. diversity and equality are really fundamental and important features of our society. i’m sorry if some people in the catholic church have a bit of a problem with those principles (i hope that many catholics on the ground are a bit more reasonable) but in any case, this is the way we are, and i’m basically proud of it. 

 

 

Your Majesty,

Thank you for your gracious invitation to make an official visit to the United Kingdom and for your warm words of greeting on behalf of the British people. In thanking Your Majesty, allow me to extend my own greetings to all the people of the United Kingdom and to hold out a hand of friendship to each one.

It is a great pleasure for me to start my journey by saluting the members of the Royal Family, thanking in particular His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh for his kind welcome to me at Edinburgh Airport. I express my gratitude to Your Majesty’s present and previous Governments and to all those who worked with them to make this occasion possible, including Lord Patten and former Secretary of State Murphy. I would also like to acknowledge with deep appreciation the work of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Holy See, which has contributed greatly to strengthening the friendly relations existing between the Holy See and the United Kingdom.

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This makes me so ill ;(