British cardinal: Atheism fosters violence

The country’s most senior Roman Catholic warned yesterday that secular atheists mean to wipe out Christianity in Britain.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said supporters of secular values do not tolerate dissent and warned their ambition to eliminate religious belief was ‘very, very dangerous’.

He warned that secular values had fostered the violence of totalitarian states and the purges and wars that killed millions in the 20th century.