(August 14, 2016 at 7:48 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(August 14, 2016 at 7:41 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: No, that's ridiculous. I applaud his efforts.
It's not about changing the minds of the jihadists(abhorrent people by the way, why are they so grumpy?), it's about inter-faith diplomacy which, some people think, goes a long way.
K, I'll try and catch up with the thread now, 'cause I spotted a catfight at the end there and I'm terribly interested!
I don't applaud his efforts. Francis wants political power; that's what he stands for. He wants to create some quasi-world religion with him at its "head" (the kind of "first among equals") to take on secularism, and with it, the rise of atheism. Frankly, I don't give a shit, however, his rewrite of the historical record must not go unchallenged. Of course, I am not at all qualified to carry the banner on this one, but given some of the leftist crap that is coming out of the Academy, I think that the National Review is "dead on" for this issue. Hopefully, the true scholars will rise to the occasion on this one.
P.S. At least one cat-fight had been resolved. I feel only slightly scathed.
Why can't we all just get along?
