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The Bernard Street cygnets are still going strong! Quick snap taken on the run, as the father saw off a rival.

In other news:

Benedict was more explicit in his condemnation of militant atheism, noting that Britain had fought the atheistic evil embodied by Adolf Hitler.

"Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live," he said

Pope Benedict XVI, in Edinburgh yesterday


"I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work."

Aggressive Atheist Adolf Hitler, Speech, Reichstag, 1936

'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!'

Shrill secularist Adolf Hitler's prayer, "Mein Kampf", Vol. 2 Chapter 13

Luther was the most widely read author of his generation, and he acquired the status of a prophet within Germany.[204] According to the prevailing view among historians,[205] his anti-Jewish rhetoric contributed significantly to the development of antisemitism in Germany,[206] and in the 1930s and 1940s provided an "ideal underpinning" for the National Socialists' attacks on Jews.[207] Reinhold Lewin writes that "whoever wrote against the Jews for whatever reason believed he had the right to justify himself by triumphantly referring to Luther." According to Michael, just about every anti-Jewish book printed in the Third Reich contained references to and quotations from Luther... On 17 December 1941, seven Protestant regional church confederations issued a statement agreeing with the policy of forcing Jews to wear the yellow badge, "since after his bitter experience Luther had already suggested preventive measures against the Jews and their expulsion from German territory." According to Daniel Goldhagen, Bishop Martin Sasse, a leading Protestant churchman, published a compendium of Luther's writings shortly after Kristallnacht, for which Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church in the University of Oxford argued that Luther's writing was a "blueprint."[211] Sasse applauded the burning of the synagogues and the coincidence of the day, writing in the introduction, "On 10 November 1938, on Luther's birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany." The German people, he urged, ought to heed these words "of the greatest antisemite of his time, the warner of his people against the Jews."[212]
from Wikipedia article on notorious atheist Martin Luther

Gott mit uns
Typical secular/atheist motto, found on German Army belt buckles during WW2

Thou shalt not bear false witness
Source unknown, but probably safe to ignore if you want to score cheap and self-serving rhetorical points in a speech

We have always been at war with EastAsia
Fact!

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