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ate | aaa toe Tn - J tse, 3 : mo wet : fies, - Dear Mrs. Collin; BATE. Ne 7 3 BiseiGacre ' I have read your letter. to the editor of the er = ald and found it very boring, and that of a narrow-minded intljoerant ignoramus which are thickly- populated max nowadays, especially among the followers of the Catholic Hierarchy.: When a catholic speaks of _ “love your neighbour as yourself", and "forgive your enemies", he means the Catholic neighbour, and even at thet he is not very sincere. The feachings of Christ € unless the man himself is a myth) are,too perfect | for human practice. To me the whole Christiaft cult, but especially the Catholic cult, is the biggest historical fraud in human history, that have befuddled and darkened the minds of humanity for the past two thouspfd years. So many sins, persecutions, wars and enslavements have been perpetrated, all in the name of Christ and God. Yerhaps you have read of the Catholic Inquisition of the 15th and 16th centuries when thousqads where tortured, burned and slaughtered; The Protestant Reformation and the religious. wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came when the prances of Sermany made up their minds to keep for themselves the money that was pouring from the pockets of their people into the coffers of the Vatican; and the "Holy" Crusades were an attempt to recapture a trade routex from the "infidel" Moslems, All these, under the name of Christianity, were nothing but a shrewdly-disguised. propa- ganda from Rome, to enrich the praveleged clerical Catholic oligarchies by exploiting the ignorance and poverty and prey on the superstitions of the suffering masses, In the present times we have the Catholic blessings - of fascist #apin Spain, Portugal, Argentina and several other countries right in our own hemisphere, The Pope even made secret business with Shintoist Japan during the War. He blessed the Italian "volunteers" in. St. Peter's square before leaving for Spsin to fight theiraéssmin fellowQ—-Catholic brothers. He glossed over the news every time the Nazi and Fasigt planes murdered thougands of innocent men, women and children. He shook hands with Franco efter the victory was wo won, atl, thanks to his "holy" blessings. My main point is this: I intollerate those individuals, creeds, societies and concepts that tolerate race prejudice, pogroms, religious hetreds and bigotries, class antaconisms, the spreading netionalistic hatred in a people of one country against another and suppression of freedom of speech end essem- Dly. We are a long shot yet from those principles that were preached by the preat humanitarians of kisukeoax history of many lands. Christianity and especially .Catholicism ,)from your point of view, does hot have the monopoly of right and ENCLOSURE 7 9 TITS - 6)