One Man’s Religion as Another Man’s Belly Laugh

There are narrow minded or visionary leaders in any walk of life. Also in the area of religion, as history clearly demonstrates time and again. This Pope seems to be unable to see beyond his own little frog-in-a-well like world. Politics must have got him to where he is, and balanced minds may not have been the winners during his election to office. After all, however exalted and godly the higher-ups in any religion may call themselves, they are human and are not God and can fall victim to all the human failings. Only thing is, they ought to be ashamed that despite choosing ``to give their lives to God `` and getting the special advantages of a religious education and training, they still indulge in power plays and politics.

#1,

Benedict is not likely to ever be ashamed of what he has said. Indeed, he must be grinning privately that he managed to insult the billion plus followers of a rival faith. I doubt his now dead lackey, Alain de Lastic went to his death anything but convinced that he ahd done the right thing. Yes, the world will outlast Benedict and his current band of bigots, but the problem is that he is likely to make bigotry a staple in the lives of the followers of the faith that he presides over.

The best response to this, and a peaceful and intelligent way it certainly, is satire and ridicule - fortunately, the world didn`t have to wait too long for this. Muhammad Gaddafi`s instructions to the pope were just the right response to this bigoted old man. The rest of the world can sit back and laugh at the fact that both these men were serious in their own, silly ways, like actors in a 1920s black and white farce.

Mehul Kamdar

You are right; it is a battle of dimwits. But we can`t laugh as they have suicide bombers on one side and the daisy-cutters on the other just to make people believe that they are pursuing their respective businesses quite peacefully.

Re: # 3

Teshah,

Benedict`s stupidity and arrogant condescension has been matched with exemplary restraint by Muslim organisations. I do not believe that these deliberately provocative remarks would be matched with violence. On the whole, I think the world has shown this bigot the lack of attention that he richly deserves. If he persists in his mission, I doubt it would be difficult for the Muslim community to send a peaceful, economic message - if Arabs stopped buying German and Italian cars and luxury goods, Argentinian beef etc, the Catholic community would, itself, tell it`s chief bigot to shut the hell up. Nothing hurts more than a punch to the bank balance.

I generally agree with your comments...

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