December 31, 2010 6:07 PM
Popes, atheists and freedom
An interesting article: Why atheists should support Christian world intervention:Popes, Atheists and Freedom
Secularists should recognize that the pope's fight is their fight.
This being the season of hope, Islamic extremists of course have been engaged in their annual tradition of blowing up Christian churches.An attack by a radical Muslim sect on two churches in northern Nigeria killed six people on Christmas Eve. On the Philippines' Jolo Island, home to al Qaeda-linked terrorists, a chapel bombing during Christmas Mass injured 11.
One of the central public events during these days at year's end is the Pope's midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In his homily the pope invariably pleads for peace, but on Friday evening a viewer could not have missed the meaning when Benedict XVI twice mentioned "garments rolled in blood," from Isaiah 9:5.
The image, as befits Isaiah, is poetic and disturbing. Benedict surely intended it so: "It is true," he said, "that the 'rod of his oppressor' is not yet broken, the boots of warriors continue to tramp and the 'garment rolled in blood' still remains." He was of course referring to the sustained violence against Christian minorities by Islamic fundamentalists.
Read more at the Wall Street Journal
HT: Tripp
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