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Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor: religious intolerance will wipe out Christianity

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

The cardinal mounted a critical attack on atheism and its attitude to those with religious beliefs, warning: “In the name of tolerance it seems to me tolerance is being abolished.”

“No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the new secular religion as if it alone were definitive and obligatory for all humankind,” he said.

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