Comments on: Question with boldness even the existence of a God; https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/ Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Aquinas Dad https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511075 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:48:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511075 I would be more impressed if the page didn’t have such a misleading caption on page 1. Any casual research in a decent library or online would quickly reveal that;
A) the Vatican routinely signs concordats with secular governments and it usually has to do with a new or changing interaction ranging from how bishops are selected to tax status
B)Concordats have been forged since, oh, the 11th Century
C) The Concordat certainly did NOT “… effectively legitimiz[ed] Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world.” The Nazis were legitimized by two little somethings called the German Federal Election of 11/1932 and the parliamentary process where a bit more than 33% of Germans voted for the Nazi Party and a coalition government made Hitler Chancellor. This led to the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act, resulting in a change in how Germany conducted foreign relations and leading to the Concordat – as well as agreements with the dozens of ambassadors from places like the USA and UK who had already been dealing with Hitler, etc.

So, the caption gets it backwards – the Vatican needed a new Concordat because of the Nazis winning an election. Way to impress a visitor! Sure, the fact that my father writes books on German WWII history helps, but my father is also an atheist.

]]> By: Ben https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511074 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:08:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511074 The fact that it was found a Wiki site suggests it can be misread to mean whatever we want it to mean.

]]> By: Berlzebub https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511073 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:27:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511073

That would have been awesome! 🙂

And prophetic.

]]> By: Stacy https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511072 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:38:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511072 That would have been awesome! 🙂

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511071 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:02:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511071 gotcha

]]> By: kristi https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511070 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:40:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511070 OK, disregard that, I should have clicked the link first!

]]> By: kristi https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511069 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:36:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/04/question-with-boldness-even-th/#comment-511069 I think he said “homage,” not ” homepage.

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