Dale Price takes a look at James Carroll article on the Pope’s Regensburg address and slice, dices, and dissects it like an army of Ginsu knives.
"Carroll, as a good Unitarian in Catholic drag"
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LOL! That is a class A fisking which I will need to look through more carefully. I did catch this nugget when Carroll worked in an off-topic dig at Bush:
Bush Derangement Syndrome in full-flower. If Carroll was assigned to write a column on continental drift, he’d manage to work in a reference to Chimpy W. McHitlerburton.
“The Enlightenment was hardly some unalloyed good–the same process also brought us the guillotine, the exaltation of the state and the guillotine’s muscular grandchildren, Zyklon B and the Gulag.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!
I’m definitely using that somewhere.
Ugh. I can barely read the religion articles in the Boston Globe anymore. They are universally terrible- even when the target is some religion other than Roman Catholicism. I read an article on Islam that was so full of holes, incorrect facts, and false statements that even I could point them out- and I know next to nothing about Islam.
The Globe writers who write on religion are so infectced with modernist/protestantized thought that they honestly don’t know they are grossly biased. Forget “Bush Derangement Syndrome”- they have Church derangement syndrome.
Maybe I should write a letter the next time I read one of those articles. Not that they’d print it. I once read a response to a story about a former IRA terrorist who turned away from violence and became a priest, in which the responder decried the fact that women aren’t allowed to be priests. It was completely irrelevant to the story, but they ran it.
My favorite part of the Caroll essay is this:
“Benedict properly affirms the rationality of faith, and the corollary that faith should be spread by reasoned argument and not by violent coercion. But he does so as a way of positing Christian superiority to other faiths.”
I mean, c’mon. Is there something wrong with thinking Christianity is superior BECAUSE it IS reasonable? Is there something wrong to think that what’s reasonable is superior to what’s not?