The Pope's speech (link)

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http://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.)

Comments

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I don't mind telling you that I was slightly surprised too. Although a man who seriously thought that the Pope should have apologized to mobs of unappeasable haters who just wait for the next lie for which to swarm and murder, because they accepted lies about what he had said, deserves correction. But his reaction was astounding. However, I think I taught him one lesson: that when it comes to invective, I am the 1000-pound gorilla. It has been a while since I seriously stretched my capacity to insult people - not that I am proud of it, but he started with the insults.

And I did go after him to begin with. Seek the battle, don't complain of the wounds, says a wise man.