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jammies · 12-16-2007, 01:21 PM

It's not racism, but it is prejudice. Simply dismissing everything the Pope says as "irrelevant nonsense" is, as I said, attacking the person and not the message. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with what he says, but disagreeing because HE is the one who said it, is where I take issue.

I have no problem with attacking the Catholic Church as an institution, or attacking specific members for misdeeds they have perpetrated - if the criticism is warranted, which it far too often is. Dividing the world into the elect and the damned, however, is a religious trick - don't go there if you claim to be a disciple of logic and not dogma.

12-16-2007, 01:21 PM	#59
jammies Basement Chicken Choker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants. Exp:	It's not racism, but it is prejudice. Simply dismissing everything the Pope says as "irrelevant nonsense" is, as I said, attacking the person and not the message. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with what he says, but disagreeing because HE is the one who said it, is where I take issue. I have no problem with attacking the Catholic Church as an institution, or attacking specific members for misdeeds they have perpetrated - if the criticism is warranted, which it far too often is. Dividing the world into the elect and the damned, however, is a religious trick - don't go there if you claim to be a disciple of logic and not dogma. __________________ Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.