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And yet, my contact with individuals from non-Western cultures, be them priests from Africa or Orthodox Christians from Syria, suggests our dominant acceptable narrative is about as close to reality as television\u2019s Survivor<\/i> is really about survival skills. <\/p>\n

In this excellent piece<\/a>, the National Catholic Register bothers to do some homework and look at the possibility that the liberal narrative as espoused by President Obama might not be Gospel truth. \u00a0Not that I\u2019m an expert myself. \u00a0But I\u2019ve learned to distrust much of the leftist narrative, be suspect of the leftist agenda, and based on those outside of the media narrative loop, think the CR piece might be closer to truth than what we hear on CNN <\/a>or the Huffpost<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"