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pinguinfeliza

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Sep 16, 2006 11:15

Ok, I'm sorry, I'm just SO sick of people comparing others to Hitler and Mussolini.

This is from, of course, an article about the Muslim reaction to the Pope's comments:

In Turkey, however, where the Pope is due to visit in November, the deputy leader of the ruling party said Benedict had "a dark mentality that comes from the darkness of the ( Read more... )

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chiming in (popsicles, s.) anonymous September 17 2006, 13:53:06 UTC

by no means attacking what you say, but as i'm studying this sort of relation as we speak, i thought i'd send on some information from my professor. this is what upsets more than the "offensive comments" is the complete disregard for historical facts ( ... )

chiming in part 2 (it was too long) anonymous September 17 2006, 13:53:51 UTC

But there have been many schools of Islamic theology and philosophy. The Mu'tazilite school maintained exactly what the Pope is saying, that God must act in accordance with reason and the good as humans know them. The Mu'tazilite approach is still popular in Zaidism and in Twelver Shiism of the Iraqi and Iranian sort. The Ash'ari school, in contrast, insisted that God was beyond human reason and therefore could not be judged rationally. (I think the Pope would find that Tertullian and perhaps also John Calvin would be more sympathetic to this view within Christianity than he is ( ... )

Re: chiming in part 2 (it was too long) pinguinfeliza September 17 2006, 16:53:50 UTC

Fine.

BUT IS THE POPE LIKE HITLER?

I don't think so.