The Pope revokes the sentence of excommunication upon the Lefebvrists

[fpb]

I am horrified. Of all the unwelcome, untimely, ill-conceived, unnecessary, insulting and disastrous measures Pope Benedict could have taken, this is the worst. On the very week that the most anti-Catholic and pro-abortion President has taken office in Washington DC, the Pope seems to indicate that open flirtations with Le Pen and Pinochet,

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[fpb]

There is a difference here. I am strictly neutral about Opus Dei; the worst I can say about them is that I never could manage to get into St. Josemaria Escriva's writings, and they do not inspire me. I am strictly not neutral about the Church of St.Petain and St.Pinochet, because by their fruit ye shall know them. Their racism, their Jew-bashing, their conspiracy theories, their anti-democracy, their support for bloodstained tyrants, have been public acts, and I suggest you look them up. A few half-hours with messrs. Google and co. ought to be enough.

Let me add something for you. I am familiar with that claim: "Such and such are not a monolithic group... you cannot condemn everyone in it... I am not saying they are nice people, but..." I heard it before, both in the case of Communism, and in the case of Islam. It is the classic defensive strategy of someone who does not want to condemn something that really deserves to be condemned. In the case of Communism, it was actually quite false - Communism was monolithic; in the case of Islam, it is irrelevant, because the many decent and peaceful Muslims in the world are so in despite and not because of the aggressive and supremacist nature of Islamic teaching. Either way, it set off all my defensive reflexes.

And if you have any problems with being condescended to, don't call others "superficial" or insinuate that they are condemning other Christians lightly. I would not do this if I were not convinced twenty times over that I have to do it. At least take for granted that I do not dance my way to condemning others.

[filialucis]

Now you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel. But since you consistently refuse to engage my point, I'm going to stop wasting my time in this conversation.

[fpb]

How, exactly, am I not "engaging your point"?