By Oliver Kamm
The Times
May 22, 2009
http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2009/05/the-greatest-of-evils.html
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It's almost incredible. My colleague Ruth Gledhill, Religious Affairs correspondent for The Times, writes:
"The outgoing Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, made a contribution at the end of Archbishop Vincent Nichols' installation that was at once touching, funny, serious and extreme. He said, rather controversially perhaps, that a lack of faith is 'the greatest of evils.' He blamed atheism for war and destruction, and implied it was a greater evil even than sin itself."
Extreme is the word.
I don't believe in God; but I've never raped children. If my lack of faith is the greatest of evils, what words do you have left, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, to describe the priest who gained sexual gratification from attacking altar boys, who raped a boy in a wheelchair, and whom you allowed to work as a chaplain though you knew of his proclivities?
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