Comments on: Exhibit A: Why Benedict has lost any credibility http://blog.jmlynch.org/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/ suffering under the sun Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Friend Fruit http://blog.jmlynch.org/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:15:19 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/#comment-1352 Pope slams Old Testament

“Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul,” he said

The actual headline on that article was “Pope slams Muslim violence”, but I think mine makes just as much sense.

]]> By: JohnnieCanuck http://blog.jmlynch.org/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:55:20 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/#comment-1351 Poor Pope Benedict. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Pun intended.
Once you’ve got a job description like that, you have to find someone who is bent or can bend himself enough to fill it. Then you have an incumbent who will work to find what he is employed to find. Not likely he is going to report that the non-existence of demons means he should be reassigned.
It all started when there was no natural explanation for mental illness. Unfortunately some people with psychoses are still being tormented by their priests, instead of getting treatment by evidence-based medicine.
For the Catholics, if God is real, then so is Satan. Since Satan is a demon, then demons exist. They likely won’t be abandoning this bit of irrationality any time soon. Besides, everyone knows that demons can’t resist evil people.
There is only one reason to take seriously what he says about anything.
Power, and the wielding of it.
Those who accept him as authority may or may not ally usefully, in some way and in some times with those who support science. Their political power base is substantially more effective than any alliance of science supporters, which needs to be considered.
So what principles are we willing to sacrifice (bend, be discrete about) for politics? I wouldn’t bother. Today, the Internet allows so many individual voices to be heard that there is little point in shushing each other. Any such conspiracy will be blown by Google to any who care to search.
IMO it’s probably best to just point out each and every irrationality the forces of unreason come up with, even if it is unkind of us to laugh at them too.
Keep up the good works.

]]> By: Sean http://blog.jmlynch.org/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:43:54 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/#comment-1350 The Wikipedia article on Fr. Amorth claims his favorite movie is The Exorcist. Based on his comments, Raiders of the Lost Ark just might run a close second. :)

]]> By: Friend Fruit http://blog.jmlynch.org/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/comment-page-1/#comment-1349 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:13:06 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/#comment-1349 They did bad things, so they were possessed. This is proof of the existence of demons.

My own mind is unable to achieve such clarity.

]]> By: John Wilkins http://blog.jmlynch.org/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:10:46 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/exhibit_a_why_benedict_has_los/#comment-1348 Hey, at least he doesn’t blame Darwin. Or maybe he thinks Darwin was a demon?

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