I have no intention of debating U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with anyone. It’s not an area that I know enough about to debate and it doesn’t really bear upon the subject I was discussing.
As I said: Nixon had a Quaker background and Kennedy was Catholic but Viet Nam, for example, was neither A Quaker or Catholic war. So the truth of the below......well, views may vary. I don’t do policy analysis’s for the U.S. government.
My point being, and I shouldn’t have to explain it as obvious as it is, is that the religious background of the presidents makes little difference in U.S. foreign policy.
“It (Catholic Encyclopedia)does not have full authority - the stamp is of a local bishop which says that he can find nothing wrong with it. As I said, I find it useful but not completely authoritative. Many of the articles are a century old and the site is a private one, not a Church one”
Thank you, we are in agreement then but that really has nothing to say about whether the aforesaid is accurate in what it says reflecting Catholic belief and practice.
If it is not I’m sure you can point that out.
It is pertinent to my point.
My point being, and I shouldn’t have to explain it as obvious as it is, is that the religious background of the presidents makes little difference in U.S. foreign policy.
My contention that it is and it is directly responsible for the eradication of Christian Catholics in the Middle East. The last few Protestants perpetrated it and the current either Protestant or more like Muslim is upping the ante.
Thank you, we are in agreement then but that really has nothing to say about whether the aforesaid is accurate in what it says reflecting Catholic belief and practice. If it is not I’m sure you can point that out.
My practice is to go to the USCCB or Vatican website if I am in doubt.