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22.Aug.2008 : Signing Session - Lisbon
There will be a signing session with Diary Of
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Jul. 2008 : Without electricity
It’s difficult to write about what happened in
Poland yesterday. I’ve been searching for the right words because
you have to point out first and foremost that yesterday’s actions
were only the results of ideological excrecences of a few people and
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Yes, it might be that our work and my messages
are not always easy to understand, and I surely wouldn’t claim I
make it easy for listeners or readers but from all I’ve written up
to now, one thing should be very clear:
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I have a very critical view of the world and I am often shocked about the things happening in the world. But eventually the religious fanatics who cut the electricity for last night’s concert at Klodzko, ruining a whole festival, have only strengthened my sceptical attitude towards human intelligence. In my mind, they have only demonstrated their intolerance and inability to live in a modern world and to communicate in it. I do respect individual faith and religion.
That’s something I have always asserted. Still, I think that the
foundation for human beings living together is respect – and that it
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To say it with the words of Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Meyer, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, ZdK, on www.zdk.de:
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