Links for 11/11/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Peggy is a class act, although somewhat smug. Sad she wasted her talents on the Reagan era, which created many of the messes we are still cleaning up after. As for Berkowitz's screed, denouncing democracy using Plato's Republic gets no points from me, considering how he modeled his philosopher kings after Sparta. Robert Heinlein did thought experiment about giving only veterans the vote. It was not well received, even though it was logical.
Politico found Trump was OK on Ike - meeting both facts and Truthiness (as Stephen Colbert would say). Still, Ike's foreign policy could never be run today and probably should not have been run then. Dulles would be considered a war criminal now.
As I said yesterday, I like that Pope is officially endorsing Christian Humanism. We in the Illuminati may make him an honorary member (the Illuminati was no fan of Pelagianism or clericalism). Silk also makes the talk interesting. It is amazing that denial of original sin leads to rigidity - as if acceptance of the concept does not sometimes do the same thing, especially the anti-sexual overtones of it. The challenge is to develop a healthy and modern sexuality that still holds fast to the point that fornication is a sin against the self. Maybe that quote from Paul should be the starting point - that it is not God that is harmed by such sin but the self in all its complexity (also that some things, like a gay marriage, harms no one).
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