tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post2096908473253598320..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Now This Is Getting Interesting Or RidiculousUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-54405437020541323992017-02-26T18:54:44.276-05:002017-02-26T18:54:44.276-05:00
Ultramontanist nutters?
You mean like this guy?...<br /><br />Ultramontanist nutters?<br /><br />You mean like this guy? What does he have to do with Catholics kidnapping a little Jewish kid?<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Daines<br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-4534159398992479202017-02-26T18:53:54.753-05:002017-02-26T18:53:54.753-05:00"Who gets to decide that? Tony Kushner? Steve..."Who gets to decide that? Tony Kushner? Steven Spielberg? Pius IX?<br />His henchmen? Anti-Catholic polemicists? Ultramontanist nutters?<br />Authors with an ideological axe to grind during Mortara's life or<br />decades after his death? Mortara's parents? His siblings? Their<br />descendants? Who has the highest standing to make that ultimate<br />determination?"<br /><br />If that's a serious question, my answer is the surviving members of The Association, Chickens for Colonel Sanders, a paramecium named Raoul, Jean Hersholt and all the winners of the Jean Hersholt humanitarian award, Dr. Ruth, whoever invented the formula that makes Orange Julius so devilishly delicious, and the June Taylor Dancers.<br /><br /><br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-47339788036484326492017-02-26T15:45:27.414-05:002017-02-26T15:45:27.414-05:00Your second update is a perfect example of creatin...Your second update is a perfect example of creating a "victim" so we can be in charge of him. What he thought was wrong, because we're the boss!<br /><br />Feh.<br /><br />And yes: hard problems are the most interesting. Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11265837684238199954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-75871264663294609492017-02-26T15:18:51.512-05:002017-02-26T15:18:51.512-05:00I should also confess, I love hard problems. Espec...I should also confess, I love hard problems. Especially when there isn't one, clear, uniform, answer. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-39358606258293342862017-02-26T15:11:00.452-05:002017-02-26T15:11:00.452-05:00What I've got problems with is for people livi...What I've got problems with is for people living now to think that they can replace their judgement for Mortara's. If it's valid for them to do that to him, why isn't it valid for other people to do it for them or people they wouldn't want it done to.<br /><br />And, as I said, if what Pius IX did with Edgardo Mortara is evil because it made a Jewish child into a Catholic, why isn't the act of making a Jewish child into an atheist equally as bad. Only, when it's atheism, "that's different". <br /><br />The fudging of fiction and history is really dangerous. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-78222169827744489392017-02-26T13:32:33.997-05:002017-02-26T13:32:33.997-05:00The kidnapping was evil, but it is neither undone ...The kidnapping was evil, but it is neither undone by damning the life Mortara lived, nor condoned by accepting Mortara's view of his life.<br /><br />This really isn't that complicated. To damn Mortara's life over again because of an act of evil is to damn Mortara, is to keep him a victim of the act in perpetuity. And then the ancient questions arises: cui bono?<br /><br />Certainly not Mortara....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com