h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The exact quote appears to be: "L'argent, la soif de l'avoir, du pouvoir et même du savoir n'ont-ils pas détourné l'homme de sa Fin véritable?"

That is (please forgive my poor translating skills): "Do not money, thirst for possession, for power and even for knowledge have diverted man of his true Goal?"

Money, bad. Possession, bad. Power, bad.

Knowledge, bad.

Thanks for the translation.

Yup, knowledge is definitely bad especially when its knowledge held by the plebs rather than the church which is why the church tried it's hardest, even killing its own, to stop the Bible being translated into common English from Latin.

Also, of course, knowledge is bad if it is incorrect...but that's probably not the knowledge Ratzy is talking about.

Amusingly, it reminds me that he also urged priests to say the mass in Latin again. I wonder if this is related...

Also, if I'm not mistaken, he suggested training more exorcists And, I learned recently in the radio that in the past decade or so, in the German diocese of Paderborn, they performed like 3 exorcisms One religious official commented that it is 'rare, but not unheard of' or something like that. I didn't know whether to or to

Yes, it is quite scary that exorcisms are still being done. It's prevalent in the US still among certain branches of Christianty.

Here's the Ratzy link with photo of him doing the Nazi salute..you can take the boy out of the Hitler Youth but you can't take the...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-504969/Popes-exorcist-squads-wage-war-Satan.html

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Just what I was about to say, albeit slightly more succinct.