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$\"bald$ <\/a>There is a curious range of reactions to my blog posts that \u201cattack\u201d people.<\/p>\n

Some progressives\u00a0accuse me of being an angry, white, male reactionary, arch traditionalist who longs for a pre Vatican 2 church.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile some conservatives accuse me of being a spineless shill, a \u201cneo con\u201d sell out, member of the Patheeos Francis Church club of pseudo conservatives.<\/p>\n

Ho hum.<\/p>\n

Fact of the matter is, (apart from Donald Trump) I try not to attack people, and I try not to attack groups of people, and I try to avoid putting people into big groups about who I can generalize. I don\u2019t always succeed and sometimes fall into the trap of attacking individuals and generalizing about groups.<\/p>\n

What I do attempt, however, is to attack lies, hypocrisy, idiocy, ignorance and arrogance, pride, self righteousness, cupidity and stupidity and sin.<\/p>\n

To\u00a0take aim at these things you have to take aim at where they appear in society and the church. Since there are a lot of these vices in the extreme fundamentalist side of the Catholic Church they sometimes get a few pot shots in their direction. Likewise, as there are a lot of these vices in the extreme progressive side of the Church and society they also get some of the pot shots.<\/p>\n

I know, I know. It\u2019s the pot calling the kettle black,<\/p>\n

I\u2019m the first to admit\u2013like any preacher ought\u2013that the first person I\u2019m preaching to is myself.<\/p>\n

Hypocritical, arrogant, ignorant, self righteous, stupid, greedy, proud person?<\/p>\n

C\u2019est moi.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a work in progress too. Do all my pot shots hit the target? I don\u2019t know, and quite frankly I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Will what I write make any difference? Maybe. It\u2019s not for me to say.<\/p>\n

In many ways I regard my blogging as the dog barking at the train.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t bark at the train because he thinks it will stop. He barks at the train because he\u2019s a dog.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"