I figured I’d weigh in on Pope Benedict’s comments about Islam. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with his decision to quote a Byzantine emperor who said, “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” Although it was qiute classy of the pope to show his sadness that Muslims are angry at his remarks, it’s great that Benedict did not apologize, as he has no need to. No disrespect intended to Muslims, but I find it impossible to sympathize with the teachings of a religion that condemns celibacy. Additionally, both Benedict and the Byzantine emperor were right on when they said that Muslims have attempted to spread their faith through violence. If conquering Spain, Portugal, and almost France and then turning them into Muslim countries isn’t spreading one’s religion through violence, I don’t know what is. Good job Benedict!
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and got everything they wanted. Yesterday President Bush telephoned nine soldiers to wish them a merry Christmas Eve. Today, Pope Benedict gave an excellent Christmas speech about the dangers of technology and materialism. He spoke in English for at least part of his speech, and he has a wonderful German accent. He seems to be a great orator.
Oops, I take back my comment that Damon and Bellhorn will be on the same team. Stupidly, I just found out that on December 23, Mark joined the San Diego Padres. Now he’ll be with Doug Mirabelli. It’ll be Belly and Belli! Hopefully Bellhorn will grow his hair longer now that the Yankees can’t force him to keep it short. I always though he looked better with long hair.
In other news, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a Christmas Eve visit to the troops in Iraq, just like he did last year! Maybe it’ll become a tradition. Additionally, our glorious pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, held his first midnight mass as pope.
Great job to Mark, Rummy, and Benedict!
This is one of the worst atrocities I have heard of in a long time. According to Fox News, students in the town of Medway, Massachusetts are forbidden from displaying any Christmas symbols at school, and their holiday pageant had no mention of Christmas – but get this – the pageant included songs about both Hanukkah and Kwanzaa!!!! If this is not discrimination, I don’t know what is! For a long time, I have predicted that political correctness would grow so powerful that Christians would be discriminated against. Well, today is the day my prediction came true. I tend to dislike political correctness and liberalism anyways, but this atrocity crosses a line that very few atrocities cross.
Yet another news bulletin I forgot to add earlier: a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that intelligent design should not be taught in public schools. This ridiculous ruling is an insult to philosophers and patriotic Americans! John E. Jones III, the judge who made this evil ruling, is helping to mess up the country. How could a reasonable person oppose intelligent design? Clearly, there are good and bad in the world, so there must be at least one extremely powerful good being that created all the good things, and one extremely powerful bad being that created the bad things. The fact that the universe exists is proof that some being willed it into existence. This is a sad landmark in history. In 1925, a court ruled in the Scopes trial that evolution could be taught in schools. Now, a court has ruled that nothing but evolution can be taught in schools! Teachers can’t even mention flaws in Darwin’s theory! Those individuals who accuse President Bush and other conservatives of suppressing freedom of speech ought to think about how athiests, agnostics, and other liberals are suppressing freedom of speech. In some places, school choruses, bands, and orchestras can’t even sing Christmas songs, towns can’t display nativity sets, people are frowned upon for saying “Merry Christmas,” and now this! The Pennsylvania ruling is another indication that athiests, not Christians, have most of the power.
