Vatican aide says Europe squeezing out God

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ROME - Freedom of religion is being threatened in Europe by an aggressive secularism which has made the mention of God “almost indecent,” a top adviser to Pope John Paul said in an interview published on Friday.

“We have gone from a Christian culture to an aggressive secularism with intolerant traits,” Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told la Repubblica daily.

“It has started to become an ideology which imposes itself through politics and does not cede public space to the Catholic and Christian vision,” said the powerful head of the Vatican department in charge of safeguarding and interpreting doctrine.

“A struggle exists and we must defend the freedom of religion against the imposition of an ideology that presents itself as the only voice of reason,” the German cardinal added.

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“In the political sphere it seems almost indecent to talk about God, almost as though it were an attack on the freedom of those who don’t believe,” Ratzinger said in the interview.

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All I could think of when I read this was how the the country where it is definitely "decent" to talk about God---the U.S.---is the one country that has aggressively pursued war against Iraq, yet Europe, for the most part, has opposed the war. When it comes to morality, which area of the world is practicing what are supposed to be "christian" values? Apparently, the secularists.