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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

I must apoligize for taking too much a defensive stand and assuming that you were a "dont bash cathlics, we have never done anything wrong stance" I, like you do not believe in the collective guilt stuff. I am willing to take the oppisite side in this case. I appreciate and respect your honesty and your ability to talk about a subject without it turning into a dam you and your stupid mind debate. May you and yours have a blessed day.

Michael


149 posted on 11/30/2004 10:34:57 AM PST by winodog (We need to water the liberty tree)
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To: winodog
Right. Lord Acton took the position that Catholics should acknowledge the wrongs and evils of history as a matter of historical scholarship. I agree with that. Anyone murdered in the past by evil religious fanatics or political opportunists is a victim of terrible evil.

I just think it is very wrong for people to persist in attacking the church today or contemporary Catholics for stuff that happened hundreds of years ago they had nothing to do with. A lot of people have been murdered in religious controversies going back to Jericho and the battle for Canaan or in bizarre Aztec or Druid human sacrifices. It was all evil. No one alive today is responsible for that.

Spaniards and French Catholics of the medieval period hardly hold a monopoly on religious or political homicide. It's unfortunate that bigotry pushes that myth. That's a form of political opportunism with a definite agenda.

151 posted on 11/30/2004 11:08:20 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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