Faith-Based Reality: Absolutism Goes Relative
As Faith-Based Realists go, the former Cardinal Ratzinger is my hero. Intelligent, educated, he's written widely and learnedly. I know people are inclined to say nasty things about theology, but don't begrudge him his successes. The Pope knows his stuff. Unlike the sputtering Rush, who settles for denying reality, Benedict XVI ties it in knots.
Here's his best known quote in the MSM:
"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."
--Pope Benedict XVI
Given his education, he probably knows that he's speaking, not just with a forked tongue, but one with twisted tines: relativism, which, by definition, embraces multiple points of view, is one point of view. You know, black is white and white is black. What's wrong with the world? Benedict's answer: relativism. What's wrong with relativism? It's dictatorial, i.e it's absolutist. Derrida may be persona non grata in many of the halls of Catholic academy, but who needs him when the Pope deconstructs himself? A FBRealist to the core, it's what Benedict believes that counts, especially as Pope, the last dictator of the Western world. It takes one to know one.
As far as people whose highest goal is their own ego and desires, Fox News proves the rule. Remember all those bishops telling Bill O'Reilly he shouldn't receive communion?
Mb
Here's his best known quote in the MSM:
"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."
--Pope Benedict XVI
Given his education, he probably knows that he's speaking, not just with a forked tongue, but one with twisted tines: relativism, which, by definition, embraces multiple points of view, is one point of view. You know, black is white and white is black. What's wrong with the world? Benedict's answer: relativism. What's wrong with relativism? It's dictatorial, i.e it's absolutist. Derrida may be persona non grata in many of the halls of Catholic academy, but who needs him when the Pope deconstructs himself? A FBRealist to the core, it's what Benedict believes that counts, especially as Pope, the last dictator of the Western world. It takes one to know one.
As far as people whose highest goal is their own ego and desires, Fox News proves the rule. Remember all those bishops telling Bill O'Reilly he shouldn't receive communion?
Mb
posted by Diana I. Bail at 8/28/2005 04:46:00 AM
1 Comments:
Benedict XVI has taken on relativism. However, he has purposely (he admitted this) excluded Israel from a long list of nations suffering from terror attacks. If this is where is "lack of relativism" and "certainty" has led him I prefer to have a good dose of relativism than his "certainty."
Mike
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