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Take a Whiff

Religion has always gotten in the way of spirituality. I have seen very little evidence to the contrary in my 34 short years on this planet.

I find it interesting that the pope quoted a medieval text that proclaimed that the Islamic religion was rooted in violence-clearly he was setting himself up to be misunderstood. From what I understand he was quoting this to prove the point that for religion to be a changing force in our world, it had to do so with something other than violence.

Muslims the world over reacted to this by saying theirs was not a religion of violence. A point they brought home with riots and church burnings.

Smell that?

That's irony.

Comments

Tempestmir said…
I love the smell of burning irony in the morning...
1:39 PM
Todd S. said…
It smells almost as good as democracy.
9:31 PM
Kerri said…
I'm just glad that Christians have never used violence to spread their beliefs. No, sir -- never. Otherwise, the pope's comments might have seemed a little hypocritical.
9:30 AM
Todd S. said…
NO one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
1:25 PM
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