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Thread #94831   Message #1838876
Posted By: Paul Burke
20-Sep-06 - 03:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy
Subject: RE: BS: Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy
Yes, I have. He's a very clever man. He had an almost infinite number of examples of the different demands of faith and reason to choose from. He chose 2006, in the middle of a war which was sold as the 'liberation' of Iraq, and has shown itself (by its supporters staements) to be a fight against a religious idea, to quote from a mediaeval monarch, no stranger to a bit of forcing consciences himself, in a fixed debate (reported only by his own supporters) with a representative of a religious and political opponent who, a hundred or so years later, overwhelmed that monarch's territory.

Couple that with the history of how the Roman end of Christianity was dealing with dissidents at the date of that quotation, and you can see it was mendacious indeed. Nazinger would be dangerous if he had much support, and it's only the fact that most Catholics seem to take the Pope with a pinch of salt these days that saves the situation.