Recently, Bishop Richard Williamson of the Society of Saint Pius X, stated his beliefs on the Holocaust.
“I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against — is hugely against — 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler,” Williamson said in the interview with a Swedish television station, which also appeared on various Web sites after its broadcast. “I believe there were no gas chambers,” he added.
If you check the site below, you can even watch him speak about the subject.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7867775.stm
Besides ignoring all the obvious evidence, the bishop blames “revisionists” for creating the myth of the Holocaust. Is this a personal opinion or one his group believes? The Society of St. Pius are a group that broke away from the Vatican when new laws were passed that they felt unnecessary. Hopefully this is the belief of a single idiot and not one others share.
Even after an excommunicated religious leader within the Catholic Church stated this, Pope Benedict lifted his excommunication. Shouldn’t the pope hold a tougher stance on this issue? He said the bishop regretted his comments but didn’t actually apologize for them. He is sorry he said it out loud but only because it became an issue. The reality is that he still feels this way and was given a free pass by the Vatican. When Prince Henry made a poor choice and dressed as a Nazi for a Halloween Party, his father made him go visit a concentration camp and listen to survivors.
When a person of power makes comments like this, people seem to listen. When a religious leader, that people look up to, make a comment like this, people listen. This is a slap in the face to those who suffered and still suffer today. Thank God Dwight Eisenhowser had his men record the camps as they were liberated or men like Williamson would have more to support their uneducated claims.
Now I know that Benedict was a former member of the Nazi Youth. I don’t think this has anything to do with this current issue. Like most boys, he was forced into joining as schools were made to drop current curriculum and focus on what Joseph Goebbels thought would help build Nazi pride. For Benedict, I just think he needs to take a tougher stance on this and really make a mark for his legacy. He can never live up to what Pope John Paul II accomplished but he can try and make a difference.
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