Since most of us are frequent readers, it seems silly in this blog to link to the WSJ. But since there has been so much fascinating talk about this speech of Benny16's elsewhere in posts and comments, I thought it worthwhile to provide a synopsis. It seems that WSJ handled this for me this morning and so I include it here. AI asked for a ten-minute version of those discussions. Here's a five-minute one.
Addendum: Now that I have broken a protocol of mine, I should also point out that Taranto is especially interesting today.
Pepe: Addendum is not the same as pudendum.
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Some fun here.
Applebaum's views aren't something we should take for granted, I repeat. Look what her colleague at the Post has to say: The many Muslims who reject the idea that their faith should be "spread by the sword'' will not see their cause advanced by Westerners who take us back to arguments rooted in an era when Christianity and Islam were literally at sword's point.
What an ass Dionne is.
In Christianity, God is inseparable from reason. "In the beginning was the Word," the pope quotes from the Gospel according to John. "God acts with logos. Logos means both reason and word," he explained. "The inner rapprochement between Biblical faith and Greek philosophical inquiry was an event of decisive importance not only from the standpoint of history of religions, but also from that of world history. . . . This convergence, with the subsequent addition of the Roman heritage, created Europe."
Well said. Amen to that.
What an ass Dionne is.
Amen to that, too. EJ is a perfect caricature of the pinko-Lefty Alan Alda type gone gaga. I don;t think he uses logos anymore, just auto-pilot.
I just looked at Taranto's column. He just stole my line -- after quoting Applebuam, he says: "Amen to that"! You think I should sue, or did he beat me to the punch?
Suing Dow Jones Corp could be tough, but go for it.
JJ: Going back to post #1: yes, that's a classic Ann Coulter column. Betcha Pepe will have vapors (like that returning astronaut) if he reads it!
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