As I've noted, I have no dog in this fight.   I have no idea of the truth or falsehood of any religion. Neither, by the way--- despite the more-rational-than-thou stance of Mr. Shaw, Musket, and other stalwarts who attack religion and the religious--do they.   

It's however possibly of interest that the some of the same arguments they use to discredit Catholics and Catholicism, especially sexual abuse by some priests, were used by the Nazis circa 1935-36 in Germany---for exactly the same purpose.

Does that make Mr. Shaw, Musket, et al. Nazis?    Somehow I doubt it.   But the approach is, intriguingly, precisely the same.

And it is just as fair to blame all or most atheists, or atheism, for the Nazi attacks on religion (or those by Stalin and Mao) as to blame all or most Catholics, or Catholicism, for sexual abuse by some priests.


Gee, I wonder what kind of response this news will get.