Now there's charitable response for you...but it's hardly Catholic bashing to state the truth. The Pope and the Catholic Church would be better served if the Holy See directed this much energy and concern towards solving its internal problems.
"Now there's charitable response for you...but it's hardly Catholic bashing to state the truth." ~ O6ret
It's a quite common game that the emotion-driven shallow ?thinkers? in both politics and religion play.
Certain political/religious "beliefs" are held by various sides. The sides which aren't able to logically defend their beliefs in the face of legitimate questioning, will always resort to accusing the other side of "bashing" their beliefs, rather than just giving them up in the face of irresistible facts. For instance:
Quote:
"The game being played now in the media, if you're in a minority group, is that if you can't win the debate, you demonize the person reporting the story by calling them anti-whatever. I'm not playing that game." ~ Bill O'Reilly
Excerpted from here:
Tangled Terror Tale (Two Liberal Reporters BACKPEDALING On USF Professor Al-Arian)
Washington Post ^ | March 3, 2003 | Howard Kurtz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/855657/posts