No Seriously, You Blithering BBC Idiot, Explain to the Poor Sheltered Pope How Islam Works
We imagine that if we were as smart and devout as Pope Benedict, genuine martyrdom in the cause of truth would be unwelcome but not stupefying (this is to be distinguished between the "voluntary martyrdom" that brave Muslim terrorists achieve on oppressive Israeli busses). But what would be absolutely infuriating is watching people who have literally no idea what they're talk about be both absolutely wrong and self-importantly condescending:
There will still be concerns about whether to go ahead with the Pope's planned visit to Turkey in November, our correspondent says. The BBC's David Willey in Rome says Pope Benedict, a theologian who has led a sheltered life in the Vatican for more than two decades, may not have understood the potential implications of his remarks. He says the Cardinal Bertone, the newly-appointed top Vatican official, faces the task of serious damage control in the coming days.
What a conceited idiot.
The Pope is one of the Church's most learned men regarding Islamic theology and politics - which are topics that for historical reasons you might guess the Church takes more than a passing academic interest in. He is intimately familiar with every aspect of Muslim revelation and he can converse with the most respected Islamic scholars, doing quite more than holding his own. He was the Pope's enforcer on dogma for as long as he was because he can see heretical assumptions and block them before they become heresy because he just understands religious thought and structures and history and debate that well.
Roger Simon thinks the press can only play dumb so much longer. Pace Einstein, we have yet to see any evidence that we are reaching the horizon of their infinite potential for their stupidity. Qando gives the same article the new Helen Thomas Award, which we think means he'd be on our side of the "how longer can they pretend to be this dense to promote their political ideology" debate.
And finally, wrap your mind around this little bit of juxtaposition: liberal international journalists imply in story after story that there is nothing fundamentally violent in contemporary Islamic ideology, that "youths" coming out of nowhere are rioting, that there is no creeping Sharia in Europe, and that Iran can be negotiated with. But it's the Bishop of Rome who's naive - because in his capacity as one of the most powerful men in the world, he's "led a sheltered life". These people aren't even making sense any more - they're just throwing up random liberal catechisms about the Religion of Peace and justifying them with blunt expressions of their belief in their superior intellectual sophistication.
There will still be concerns about whether to go ahead with the Pope's planned visit to Turkey in November, our correspondent says. The BBC's David Willey in Rome says Pope Benedict, a theologian who has led a sheltered life in the Vatican for more than two decades, may not have understood the potential implications of his remarks. He says the Cardinal Bertone, the newly-appointed top Vatican official, faces the task of serious damage control in the coming days.
What a conceited idiot.
The Pope is one of the Church's most learned men regarding Islamic theology and politics - which are topics that for historical reasons you might guess the Church takes more than a passing academic interest in. He is intimately familiar with every aspect of Muslim revelation and he can converse with the most respected Islamic scholars, doing quite more than holding his own. He was the Pope's enforcer on dogma for as long as he was because he can see heretical assumptions and block them before they become heresy because he just understands religious thought and structures and history and debate that well.
Roger Simon thinks the press can only play dumb so much longer. Pace Einstein, we have yet to see any evidence that we are reaching the horizon of their infinite potential for their stupidity. Qando gives the same article the new Helen Thomas Award, which we think means he'd be on our side of the "how longer can they pretend to be this dense to promote their political ideology" debate.
And finally, wrap your mind around this little bit of juxtaposition: liberal international journalists imply in story after story that there is nothing fundamentally violent in contemporary Islamic ideology, that "youths" coming out of nowhere are rioting, that there is no creeping Sharia in Europe, and that Iran can be negotiated with. But it's the Bishop of Rome who's naive - because in his capacity as one of the most powerful men in the world, he's "led a sheltered life". These people aren't even making sense any more - they're just throwing up random liberal catechisms about the Religion of Peace and justifying them with blunt expressions of their belief in their superior intellectual sophistication.
