tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post1017543523919856670..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Fidei defensorAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-30116581105086293662010-05-02T11:30:44.390-07:002010-05-02T11:30:44.390-07:00An attack on abuse is one thing, Jimmy; an attack ...An attack on abuse is one thing, Jimmy; an attack on a whole faith is quite another.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-57897469371257733302010-04-30T06:58:25.220-07:002010-04-30T06:58:25.220-07:00"The recent attacks on the Catholic Church, t..."<i>The recent attacks on the Catholic Church, the disgraceful insult that the apparatchiks in the Foreign Office offered to the Pope</i>"<br /><br />I have to say, it's hard to sympathise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-14636875767443425402010-04-29T15:29:37.643-07:002010-04-29T15:29:37.643-07:00Thanks, guys. :-)Thanks, guys. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77112362838048957762010-04-29T09:13:59.516-07:002010-04-29T09:13:59.516-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Old- okay fine young- Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098961110262289454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-5492742316031030192010-04-29T03:55:12.702-07:002010-04-29T03:55:12.702-07:00Sums up very effectively concerns which a lot of p...Sums up very effectively concerns which a lot of people have but which don't usually gain much expression in the blogosphere.<br /><br />For such loudly self proclaimed 'rationalists', they fall prey to a lot of extremely weak and confused thinking.Invictus_88https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446202385252763436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-79436315810038090982010-04-29T03:39:49.690-07:002010-04-29T03:39:49.690-07:00Unfortunately (and how depressing the situation is...Unfortunately (and how depressing the situation is) I agree wholehearedly with you and Peter Hitchens regarding the comparison between bien pensant liberal Britain of today and Soviet Russia in this matter.<br /><br />(specifically: the period between the October revolution and 1927, before the Russian Church structures effectively became fully compliant with their new atheist masters, when the state was trying, as a preliminiary to that crushing, to set up its own "progressive", "Renovationist", Church bodies to promote militantly secularist ideas under the guise of "relevant and contemporary versions of Christianity" (and to a lesser extent, Islam too, then, among the Tatars). <br /><br />To those people, as to New Labour (and the Lib Dems, and I regret to add, to an increasing section of the Tories too), religion is acceptable only as far as it is concerned (to borrow and inexactly translate an expression from, Leninist, Russian) with "the service of the cult" where one can go to mass, observe religious feasts (and fasts, perhaps), light some candles, etc, but heaven forbid that religious belief should have any impact on public life or ethics or anything else that is not purely decorative or superficial. <br /><br />Granted the current lot of totalitarians in the making enforce their will with "human rights lawyers" rather than with shotguns but their utter intolerance (and, unlike the case with at least some of the early Soviet leaders, complete incomprehension) of any Weltanschaaung that does not fit their narrow, dull, grey, managerial, technocratic, worldview is essentially the same. "Gay rights" today in England (and, pace Rocco Buttligioni, the EU) serves the same function as ostensible concern about the famine brought on by the civil war did in early 1920s Russia: an excuse to silence and repress an alternative source of authority (and morality) that cannot be controlled by the state. And (as per the FCO/Pope issue) it is mixed with with vulgar crudities more reminiscient of the Khrushchev era.Dominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00145734042272196687noreply@blogger.com