Anti-Catholic drivel harms case for Lisbon

IT’S easy to appreciate why anti-Lisbon sentiment continues to grow when one reads the continuing in-denial, highly offensive drivel of its home-grown advocates.

In his letter (September 4), Cllr Declan MacPartlin shows that history wasn’t his strongest subject at school. As a matter of fact, as opposed to half-baked opinion, the slaughter of the 20th century’s gulags, death camps and killing fields was a product of extremist atheist ideologies, driven by a hatred of the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

Adolf Hitler, in particular, had a virulent hatred of Catholicism to such an extent that after the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the next largest victims by far were Catholics, particularly religious.