ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican’s official newspaper accused an Italian comedian on Wednesday of “terrorism” for criticizing the Pope and warned his rhetoric could fuel a return to 1970s-style political violence.
In an unusually strongly worded editorial, L’Osservatore Romano said a presenter of a televised May Day rock concert, which is sponsored by Italy’s labor unions, had launched “vile attacks” on Pope Benedict in front of an “excitable crowd”.
“This, too, is terrorism. It’s terrorism to launch attacks on the Church,” it said. “It’s terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love, love for life and love for man.”
And what was this “terrorism?”
“The Pope says he doesn’t believe in evolution. I agree, in fact the Church has never evolved,” he said.
He also criticized the Church for refusing to give a Catholic funeral to Piergiorgio Welby, a man who campaigned for euthanasia as he lay paralyzed with muscular dystrophy. He died in December after a doctor agreed to unplug his respirator.
“I can’t stand the fact that the Vatican refused a funeral for Welby but that wasn’t the case for (Chilean dictator Augusto) Pinochet or (Spanish dictator Francisco) Franco,” he said between musical acts at the open-air concert.
Calling someone a “terrorist” in today’s culture is a call for their destruction. The Catholic Church, in recovery from its decades long conspiracy to protect pedophiles, is now acting as a purveyor of hate speech.
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has an absolutely hilarious story of a Republican Congressional staffer who tried to hire two hackers to change hi college grades. You’ve got to go see the pictures of the squirrels!
I don’t spend a lot of time attacking other bloggers. And, given the modest readership of this blog, I don’t really expect to have others spend much time attacking me. So imagine my surprise when I accidentally discovered that Gagdad Bob, on his One Cosmos blog, found me worthy of a detailed critique. At least that’s what I think it was. Read Putting the “Psycho” in Psychoblogging and decide for yourself.
To whet your appetite, here are a few choice excerpts:
This morning I found a leftist psychoblog linked to dailykos, Psyche, Science, and Society, run by psychoanalyst Steven Soldz. It is a goldmine of leftist foolishness, cant, and cliché, and you understand in a second why this man would be linked to the breathtakingly infantile dailykos. This blogger vividly demonstrates the axiom that education has nothing to do with wisdom. More often than not, the two are inversely related….
[O]ne wonders why Dr. Soldz focuses only on our so-called projection of evil into the terrorists, but not on their projection of evil into us. After all, they started it. I promise to stop thinking they’re evil if they promise to stop trying to kill me. (By the way, you’d think Soldz might take a bit more offense at the idea that the terrorists also want to kill him merely for believing in “Jewish psychoanalysis.” After all, they’re not going to give him a pass just because he appeases evil. In fact, they probably won’t even extend the professional courtesy of killing him last.)…
Naturally, like all lying, agenda-driven leftists, Dr. Soldz willfully and misleadingly conflates torture with any number of techniques that do not deserve the term. But even then, what moral person would not waterboard a known terrorist to try to stop a massive terror plot?…
Imagine the mentality of someone who “cannot see” the 200 million souls murdered in the 20th century as a direct result of atheistic ideologies. They are “invisible” because they do not fit into the twisted template of his ignorance and bigotry. What an imbecile.
But on the positive side, I now have a ready source of inspiration when there’s nothing else to write about.
So I guess there’ll be a lot more coming. I’m glad to provide entertainment for, Gagdad Bob until he gets a life worth writing about. In the meantime, at least he spelled my name right. Oops, I take that back! He didn’t spell my name right. Oh well….
