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Sam Harris, of all people,
has broadcast to all his atheist friends (and fellow travelers like me) his interview with FELLOW ATHEIST Mark Riebling who has "exposed" the myth going back to "The Deputy" a half-century ago that blamed Pope Pius XII (reigned 1939-1958) for the Holocaust and pretty much all the sins of supposedly Roman Catholic Adolf Hitler and his minions including ever-so-many nominal Catholics. Riebling starts by telling us that all the recent supposedly anti-Pius books like "Hitler's Pope" really include largely ignored disclaimers about how good Pope Pius XII was in helping Jews and other persecuted victims of Naziism.
Riebling feels honor-bound (or shame-faced) as a secular liberal to "confess" that it was his intellectual kin liberal atheists in the 1930's who were the prime failures to stand up against Hitler. Not that Riebling fails to recognize and acknowledge that it was the unwashed masses who were Hitler's bread and butter of support. (As a victim of a brief flirtation with "Trumpism" I have to wonder if this could have included me back then. Not that I say Trump is another Hitler, but his fanatic fans are Hitlerites redevivus.)
His book Church of Spies is full-blown apologia for the value of conservative authoritarian structures saving the world from far worse totalitarianism. The only common element of all the plots to assassinate Hitler was Pope Pius XII directing his network of operatives, spies, priests, and even a Lesbian convert from Judaism.
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/r...g-hitlers-pope
Mark Riebling has been an architect of post-9/11 “intelligence-driven policing,” co-founding and serving as research director for the Center for Policing Terrorism. He received his degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA. His latest book is Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler
has broadcast to all his atheist friends (and fellow travelers like me) his interview with FELLOW ATHEIST Mark Riebling who has "exposed" the myth going back to "The Deputy" a half-century ago that blamed Pope Pius XII (reigned 1939-1958) for the Holocaust and pretty much all the sins of supposedly Roman Catholic Adolf Hitler and his minions including ever-so-many nominal Catholics. Riebling starts by telling us that all the recent supposedly anti-Pius books like "Hitler's Pope" really include largely ignored disclaimers about how good Pope Pius XII was in helping Jews and other persecuted victims of Naziism.
Riebling feels honor-bound (or shame-faced) as a secular liberal to "confess" that it was his intellectual kin liberal atheists in the 1930's who were the prime failures to stand up against Hitler. Not that Riebling fails to recognize and acknowledge that it was the unwashed masses who were Hitler's bread and butter of support. (As a victim of a brief flirtation with "Trumpism" I have to wonder if this could have included me back then. Not that I say Trump is another Hitler, but his fanatic fans are Hitlerites redevivus.)
His book Church of Spies is full-blown apologia for the value of conservative authoritarian structures saving the world from far worse totalitarianism. The only common element of all the plots to assassinate Hitler was Pope Pius XII directing his network of operatives, spies, priests, and even a Lesbian convert from Judaism.
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/r...g-hitlers-pope
Mark Riebling has been an architect of post-9/11 “intelligence-driven policing,” co-founding and serving as research director for the Center for Policing Terrorism. He received his degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA. His latest book is Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler
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