The Pope's speech to the German Parliament

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http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_listening_heart
As ever, the man is worth listening to. But the responses in the comments thread just show how bloody useless it is to deliver intellectually distinguished and morally valuable speeches in a world where most people know no history but are stuffed full of out-of-context factoids and believe themselves entitled to judge.

Comments

Re: Three

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Will you please stop putting words in my mouth? And at least the so-not-benevolent governments of those barbarous tyrannical middle ages you try with every word to bring down did not butcher their children in the womb. Which our wonderful, benevolent and oh-so-moral governments, by whose moral light you would judge the past, do with gay abandon.

Re: Three

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No time period is beyond criticism, but I'd still rather live now in the West than in the past, all things considered. It's a much more civilized time.