>>> Your problem is with the author. <<<
Nonsense. I have no beef with BXVI as BXVI. What I do take issue with is — caveats aside — what I believe to be his embracing of a modified form of globalism is his _CiV_. You can take issue with the position a person advocates without attacking the person. Reasoned debate.
As far as I can tell, BXVI is in favor of debate. I gave a RC friend a book last Christmas in which BXVI (back when he was Joseph Ratzinger) argues with the social philosopher Jurgen Habermas. If BXVI can argue productively with someone as different from himself as an atheist neo-Marxist, perhaps there’s hope for us all. Don’t you think?
>>> A common theme in your posting history is an intense dislike and distrust for all things Catholic. <<<
Nonsense. If you look at my posting history, you’ll notice that I’ve often posted in DEFENSE of the Church of Rome against attacks made by atheists and even fellow Protestants who, I would argue, distort the history of RC in regards to matters such as the Galileo Affair, the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars, and the “Inquisition” (”la leyenda negra” and all that). You HAVE looked at my posting history, haven’t you?
I’m mostly in agreement with the encyclicals by Paul VI and JPII on abortion, and have found the RC’s massive contribution to natural law theory to be quite helpful in thinking through my position on abortion and other matters. Books on my nearby bookshelf include a collection of letters by Innocent III and vol. 2 of an English translation of the _Commentaries_ of Pius II. I honestly don’t see how you can characterize me as having an irrational dislike of all things “Catholic.”
>>> That is a completely irrational position so further attempts at a rational dialog are not possible. <<<
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I appreciate your opinions and your passionate debate. I actually enjoy the banter. I just don’t agree with your position in this respect. I too fear a global agenda if it is godless, but welcome based upon God’s law, the same law that gave us the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. I also trust my future more to a government heavily influenced by the Vatican than I do to the one influenced by Karl Marx, Mao and Fidel Castro now empowered in Washington DC.