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To: donmeaker

Not embarrassed by him at all. He’s a wonderful man. Put your pretend-to-be-a-psychologist act back in the box it came in.


260 posted on 10/13/2013 9:44:05 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips
I didn't say you were embarrassed by him.

I said "You have a guilty conscience, are embarrassed by being inspired by him, and took it as criticism."

Note the subtle difference between an accurate description and an attack. I don't condemn you for being inspired by him. Example: In one case, he picked up a phone, and called someone. Although Popes in the recent past tended to have people do things like that for them, he did it himself. That may be a step in the right direction, or could be a poor use of his time, but inspirational? I do it several times a day, and when I do it, it isn't thought of as inspirational, so I don't find it particularly inspirational in someone else. Running 100 meters in 10 seconds for an older gentleman may be inspirational, but picking up a phone I find less so. You are free to think differently than I, based on your different expectations and background.

On or about Columbus Day we can recall the moribund state of western Europe under the Church, how it was turning to fratricide under pressure from Islam and a few epidemics of bubonic plague, and its sudden recovery and expansion after the expeditions commissioned by Henry the Navigator of Portugal, and those of Columbus, John Cabot, and others with the influence of the Protestant Reformation.

264 posted on 10/14/2013 8:38:21 AM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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