04-20-2005, 06:24 PM
eppie,Apr 20 2005, 11:59 AM Wrote:I pointed at the popes views on women and gays (and probably a handful of other groups (I don't know how to use one word for this).
He has a view which to me is not very nice, so yes we don't even have to consider his past...just look at today.
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eppie
I understand and share your frustration/confusion with modern English usage (abusage??) and the careless thinking that informs the commonly used term "minority" in much discussion. (Not your careless thinking, but the intellectual dishonesty it has taken over the decades to establish the common usage.)
Why not just say "gays and women" if that is all you know about his opinions, and leave out assumptions about "other groups" that you appear to be unsure about?
As to the man himself, I am puzzled at why a man 78 years old has been chosen. Does this smack of "interim Pope" to you the way it does to me?
PS: Having an open and inquiring mind is not the sole provice of the Left. :D
PPS: I would love to see the Netherlands again, it has been 8 years since my last visit.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete