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| Our Age of counter-Enlightenment: Ratzinger & Falwell |
| 2007-05-18 14:18:08 |
During a recent trip to Brazil, Pope Benedict XVI delivered an address in which he reaffirmed the theological, political and imperialistic values of the Roman Catholic Church. In his address, the Pontiff recited an exegesis of ills that beset humankind; however, he demonstrated either a case of selected amnesia, total ignorance, or a laughably revisionist view of Western Civilization. The most troubling aspect of Benedict’s historiography is its similarity to the socio-economic models he condemns—capitalism and Marxism, in a rage against material concerns, noting, they “falsify the notion of reality by detaching it from the foundational and decisive reality which is God.” It is the end of such palliative pap as well as other systemic relics of the pre-Enlightenment ...
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