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To: steve-b

Thank you for posting. I was disappointed that this important and pertinent to our times encyclical received so little reaction, despite being deeply countercultural today.

I think everyone can agree that ideas are more powerful than guns. No one could say that with greater authority than Stalin, who once dismissed one pope with “how many divisions does he have?”, and whose oppression of Poland was stopped by a pope a few decades later.

I think, the almost uninterrupted leftward march of any democracy in history, including the US, as well as the desacralization and now collapse of decency standards in the public square all point to a need to rethink the knee-jerk reaction against censorship that most Americans have.

Error has no rights.


9 posted on 02/23/2009 11:24:16 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

So, you’re on the side of Stalin, then. That tells me all I need to know.


10 posted on 02/23/2009 11:41:07 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: annalex
a need to rethink the knee-jerk reaction against censorship that most Americans have

I wouldn't have thought it possible for your depravity to be worse than what was clear on the surface, but it turns out that it is.

You are publicly urging everyone who ever swore to uphold the United States Constitution to become an oath-breaker.

11 posted on 02/23/2009 11:43:05 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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