This is why the Christian Church is worthless.

ROME – A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled Pope Benedict XVI in controversy has apologized for his remarks, a Catholic news agency said Thursday. Bishop Richard Williamson, with the conservative Society of St. Pius X, had faced worldwide criticism over a television interview in which he said no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust.

While Williamson apologized in a statement Thursday to all those who took offense and for the distress he caused, the bishop did not specifically say that his comments were erroneous, or that he no longer believed them.

"If I had known beforehand the full harm and hurt to which they would give rise, especially to the church, but also to survivors and relatives of victims of injustice under the Third Reich, I would not have made them," Williamson was quoted as saying in the statement carried by the Zenit Catholic news agency.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_holocaust_denial

Regardless of whether one agrees with my contention that blame for the event deserves proper affixing, I would expect anyone to agree that one should have the courage to defend one's own beliefs.

You don't apologize for speaking what you regard as the truth. Correcting what one honestly believes to be erroneous thought would seem to be a virtue. People were discomfited by your words. That's the point of ministering, isn't it? Else what function do you serve?

I would not defile myself by setting foot in a Christian church. I have long maintained that they should all be burned to the ground as threats to the souls of those who would be seduced into worshipping within them.

In this world, there are some truisms, two of which are these:

• In politics, nothing happens by accident.
• In politics, the dominant narrative is rarely correct.

This is because in earthly politics, the concern for money and earthly power is paramount among imperfect humans, who do not have the ready ability to perceive that other realm and its energetic riches. The Church represents itself as ministering on behalf of entities within that other realm, to bring understanding to souls within this physical realm. To contradict prevailing earthly political narratives would seem to be part and parcel of the Church's operations.

The Church was penetrated by the state long ago and is now nothing but an advocate for earthly concerns.

If Bishop Williamson will not defend what he perceives to be the truth, then what good is he?

Be gone, you instrument of satan. Serve your corrupt church.