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I know it makes it tough to resist the temptation to enter such low level debate when I see things like this story<\/a> about a priest found murdered in Nicaragua.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the story so much as it\u2019s the comments.\u00a0 Basically they go something like this: We all know the Catholic Church is evil, all priests are rapists, so who cares?\u00a0 This guy got what he had coming to him.\u00a0 Never mind that the vast majority of Catholic Clergy, like the vast majority of most professions, was not involved in the scandal.\u00a0 This is post-modernity. We don\u2019t suffer trifles like facts.\u00a0 We just want our side to win.\u00a0 And if it means the other side should be murdered while we blow beer out our noses laughing, all the better.<\/p>\n

Remember \u2013\u00a0and I think this whenever I see such reactions \u2013 the Nazis who slaughtered and persecuted Jews were as often as not laughing it up when they were doing it.\u00a0 Just like those torturing terror suspects in US prisons.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t bemoaning the actions, they were yucking it up all the way.\u00a0 Something worth pondering. <\/p>\n

Anyway, while it\u2019s tempting to want to reduce myself to the level of such folks, I still feel torn.\u00a0 It worries me where our society is headed, and things like this don\u2019t change that.\u00a0 Still, I know it\u2019s more fun to get in and give as good as it\u2019s gotten.\u00a0 I\u2019ll see I guess.\u00a0 For now, that\u2019s my thought on seeing so many\u00a0cheering over the death of a priest that, as of now, we know nothing about. It probably says what we fear the most \u2013 that despite assurances to the contrary, the only thing we\u2019ve learned\u00a0in the last 70 years or so is nothing at all. Maybe less than was known to begin with. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"