http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html en-gb 30 Wed 23 Dec 2009 23:09:50 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=17#comment7 The Vatican isn't buying it.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7915022.stmAfter the recent string of PR disasters, they can't afford to. Besides, Bishop Williamson is going to hell anyway. If there is a hell. Everyone in favor of sending Bishop Williamson to hell raise your hand......OK, then it's settled. Sat 28 Feb 2009 03:10:49 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=15#comment6 How sad it is that the virtue of humility appears to be so readily absent from Bishop Richard Williamson's statement. Fri 27 Feb 2009 12:18:12 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=12#comment5 I find the statement utterly outrageous. The word he uses to rank his regret for the harm and pain his remarks aroused, surtout, is stronger than William's correct but generous translation especially. He makes it clear that his regret is first and foremost, above all, for the damage to the Church - the distress of relatives and survivors is an afterthought, a very secondary consideration. In so carefully crafted a statement by a man taught, as he would have been, how to use the structure of language as well mere vocabulary to convey meaning he is clearly stating - "I had to make this statement of regret but, Jewish people, you're still the untermenschen and don't you forget it".The hybris of the man is further demonstrated by his concluding dig where his apology, only to those genuinely offended, indicates an inability even to perceive the reality and the extent of the disgust civilisation feels at his pronouncements. Fri 27 Feb 2009 10:06:54 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=10#comment4 The bishop saws he regrets the upset and hurt he has caused "especially to the church, but also to ..." the survivors of the holocaust. He's more worried about giving the Pope some bad press than about the victims themselves.And he can't bring himself to even use the word "holocaust" in his statement. It's a sham. Fri 27 Feb 2009 09:42:38 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=7#comment3 "An opinion formed 20 years ago on the basis of evidence then available"??The Pope and many other religious leaders knew of the Holocaust when it was happening. The Allies discovered the evidence when they 'liberated' some of the camps. I taught it in school from 1969 when I became a teacher.The World Encyclopedia has this entry in the 1960s:"Auschwitz In June, 1941, it became an extermination centre when four huge gas chambers were installed. Rudolf Hoess, who directed the camp for more than three years, testified at the Nuremberg trials that more than 2.5 million persons were executed at Auschwitz".In other words, much of the information was the opposite of what he is implying. It is not that only in the 20 years we have found out about the full extent of what happened but that some figures have been revised downward. Two and a half million Jews were not gassed at Auschwitz. More likely it was about one and a half million.Adolf Eichmann gave the total victims as 6 million during his trial in the early 1960s, nearly 50 years ago. More recent estimates suggest that five and a half million might be closer to the truth.So he is talking nonsense about the evidence. Fri 27 Feb 2009 09:40:40 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=5#comment2 "an opinion formed 20 years ago on the basis of evidence then available and rarely expressed in public since."But has he looked anew at the evidence? Has his opinion now changed? Is he prepared to admit that he was wrong? Fri 27 Feb 2009 07:45:45 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=2#comment1 Good thing he accepted his mistakes.Prom Dress Cheap Fri 27 Feb 2009 05:19:59 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/02/nazi_row_bishop_says_hes_sorry.html?page=0#comment0 William Crawley:Then he is accepting partial responsibility for what his comments were....~Dennis Junior~ Fri 27 Feb 2009 02:12:12 GMT+1