The Pope's speech (link)
Sep. 17th, 2006 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbhttp://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html
Scientists and philosophers appreciated it.
Howling mobs of fanatics hated what they could understand of it.
(This suggests that a lot of LJers will hate what they can understand of it.)
Scientists and philosophers appreciated it.
Howling mobs of fanatics hated what they could understand of it.
(This suggests that a lot of LJers will hate what they can understand of it.)
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Date: 2006-09-17 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-17 07:40 pm (UTC)If you are interested, please have a look.
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Date: 2006-09-17 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-17 07:40 pm (UTC)If you are interested, please have a look.
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:17 pm (UTC)I generally take an optimistic view of humanity: I believe that with some effort, pretty much everyone (in any event, a damn sight more than currently seems to be the case) would be able to follow structured arguments as seen in the Pope's lecture.
At the very least, I will cling to that optimism until they decide to beat it out of me. Not even people burning effigies of my optimism will deter me! Muahaha!
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-17 07:18 pm (UTC)I never even thought that person could react like that. Much less that he ever would. Oh man. There's a certain variety of foul language that I just expect parents to keep under wraps in public, but apparantly that person doesn't have the same scruples. I hope his daughters are my age, because until I was turned 20 the worst curse I heard come out of my father was "Hell's teeth".
I regret telling you about it now. I don't mind the comment you made - you're much braver than I would have been, although I was thinking along similar lines - I just don't like being the source of that filthy language. All I really wanted was to share it with someone - you - whom I knew would understand the frustration I was feeling.
Oh well. Thinking that everyone's different, sundry and logically opposing religions can happily live side by side is a nice (in the nightmareish sense of the word) idea, but it's not going to happen, and I suppose the sooner we all get used to that idea, the better.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:32 pm (UTC)And I did go after him to begin with. Seek the battle, don't complain of the wounds, says a wise man.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:40 pm (UTC)If you are interested, please have a look.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-17 07:17 pm (UTC)No, I'm just kidding.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-17 07:41 pm (UTC)If you are interested, please have a look.
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Date: 2006-09-17 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 04:05 am (UTC)Keep in mind that I am not a self-loathing, thirsting for death or revenge or both against an enemy I cannot and have never seen, brainwashed masogynist who has been purposefully kept uninformed, undereducated and vociferously propogandized by a theofascist regime bent on regaining 'past glories', avenging 'past wrongs' and achieving regional/world domination through the skillful exploitation of the weaknesses of another culture.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud?
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Date: 2006-09-18 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 06:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-22 01:32 am (UTC)But perhaps I simply have an overly Machiavellian mind. :-)
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Date: 2006-09-18 06:58 am (UTC)Whoops...
Date: 2006-09-18 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 04:02 pm (UTC)