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May 2, 2007
How Words Lose Their Meaning: When Criticism Equals Terrorism
No, I'm not talking about the way our current administration uses the word "terrorism" but I could be. In this case, I'm talking about an editorial in L'Osservatore Romano that says, among other crazy things,
This, too, is terrorism. It's terrorism to launch attacks on the Church. . . . It's terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love, love for life and love for man.
Ed Brayton has more at Dispatches from the Culture Wars. You can read the criticism that causes all this fuss in Reuters report.
Posted by Duane Smith at May 2, 2007 8:03 PM | Read more on Religion |
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