The Pope has blood on his hands

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 4/4/2005 | Terry Eagleton

[rmgatto]

Yawn. Another useless academic communist who plays with himself by playing with words.

[Lazamataz]

I was thinking more along the lines of a letter of censure.

If it doesn't involve boathooks and Drano, I want no part of it.

[JoJo Gunn]

By whose criteria should I accept someone is "brilliant"?

[DTogo]

It was the grotesque irony by which the Vatican condemned - as a "culture of death" - condoms, which might have saved countless Catholics in the developing world from an agonising Aids death.

Those countless "Catholics" could have saved themselves by being a good Catholic. But of course the Leftists always have to blame someone else...

[John Robertson]

"John Paul II became Pope in 1978, just as the emancipatory 60s were declining into the long political night of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher."

I stopped after that sentence. Oh, wait, that was the first sentence.

[Borges]

He made the most recondite theories and trends seem quite clear and forthright. That does take a special kind of talent since others have tried and did nothing but get tangled. He did a lot to further the idea that the more someone claims to be unbiased the more biased they probably are....consciously or not.

[TomGuy]

Wuss...

You left out the vats of alcohol and iodine.


lol

[KidGlock]

1978, just as the emancipatory 60s were declining into the long political night of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

Too bad Ronald Reagan ruined the record inflation, recession, gas rationing and military defeats of Jimmy Carter.

Those were the good ol days.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

This lunatic could not possibly be any more wrong. JPII was admirable for his ability to connect with crowds, and his example of suffering with dignity should be a model for each of us. But a "conservative"? Puh-leeez!!! He not only embraced and advanced the wacky kumbayah liberalism of Vatican II, but did them one better by his acquiescence to allowing homosexuals to proliferate in the priesthood. In practice, he was no more "conservative" theologically than Olympia Snow is politically. In the spirit of Bipolar Mike Savage, I am hereby coining the term "TRINO" (Traditionalist In Name Only) to describe JPII and those who idolize him as a "conservative" Pope.

[pa mom]

Just saying one can have brains but hold an opinion you or I don't agree with. Conservatives don't have a lock on intelligence.

[jimfree]

Terry Eagleton is a brilliant literary critic but a Marxist.

Clear from the start of the article.

..."declining into the long political night of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher..."

in the first couple of lines, no less.

[northernlightsII]

That is a waste of good paper.
Literary criticism ...is anything more useless I guess it's a tie with movie criticism.

[Borges]

Lots of misguided and simply wrong or downright evil people were brillint. Wagner, this French novelist and Hitler lover named Paul Celine.

[chimera]

John Paul II's work has resulted in freedom for hundreds of millions of people. How many people or what has Terry Eagleton ever freed in his life? I guess a few condoms here and there, maybe.

[JimRed]

If he's a Marxist, then how can he be considered "brilliant"?

One has to be brilliant to make Marxism sound even marginally palatable.

[Lazamataz]

Just saying one can have brains but hold an opinion you or I don't agree with.

Incorrect.

Conservatives don't have a lock on intelligence.

Incorrect.

[Larry Lucido]

That's just a regular Saturday night around here!

[Mark in the Old South]

Your forgot the Marxist anti-Catholic Bigot barf alert.

[Tanniker Smith]

What always gets me about this hard-right talk about the Catholic Church is that when you get right down to it, the Catholic Church is one of the most liberal organizations in the world when you look at each of its beliefs.

But that pesky abortion thing and their prudity about sex have them pigeonholed as hard-right-liners.

TS

[1066AD]

I debated the barf alert but figured the title was adequate warning :)