Mixed up madness

If I hear one more person say that Pope Benedict XVI is responsible for the Islamic hoopla centered around his comments I truly will have cow. Or maybe a pig. I like pork. Anyway, the Pope made academic statements to an academic crowd about the dangers of a Godless society, equating the fruit of such a society to that of the violent extremists of Islam who believe that God would tell them to blow up innocent men, women and children in His name. If God can be known through reason and rationality, gifts He has bestowed on His children, then we must know that violence of the Jihad type are irrational and not of God. Likewise, a society that denies God allows irrationality in that the values and morals of society become subjective and driven by opinion rather than objective truth. He was kinda giving it to the European academics. But, in predictable fashion, the Islamic extremists, in complete horror that anyone would accuse them of being irrationally violent, shot a nun three times. In the back. Oh, and they rioted, burned things, and threw whatever handy stones happened to be in reach. Zenit reports that Romans are angry with the Pope, fearing Muslim backlash. Please, get a backbone, Rome! Check out the article (Thursday, Sept. 21st, 2006, www.zenit.org). Oh, and thanks, our extremist friends, for putting the exclamation point on the Pope's comments. You have proven yourselves again.