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Juan Cole: Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes [View all]
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/295-164/16730-dear-rightwing-catholic-islamophobesAn example is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. Rep. Peter King of New York also comes to mind. Robert Spencer has made a career of defaming Islam and Muslims. Then there is professional bully Sean Hannity of Faux News. Paul Ryan uses the insulting language of "Islamic fascism" (fascism is a Western invention; most fascists in history have been of Christian heritage; and it has nothing to do with the Muslim faith). Ryan, far from serving the poor, wants to cut social services to them by savaging the government budget, and openly boasts of following prophet of selfishness Ayn Rand.
These purveyors of hate speech against Muslims claim to be Catholics, and some of them are annoyingly Ultramontane, insisting on papal infallibility and trying to impose their values on all Americans.
Yet the person they hold to be the vicar of Christ has just given humankind a different charge, of humility and of service to the least in society, many of whom are Muslims.
So when will we see Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity and the others go to a prison to comfort inmates, and serve the Muslims among them? When will we see them kiss a Muslim's feet? Or are they cafeteria Catholics, parading only the values that accord with their Ayn Rand heresy?
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"Cafeteria Catholic" means Catholics who pick and choose among Catholic teachings
Fortinbras Armstrong
Apr 2013
#4
I would say that you have a basic misunderstanding of Hell and how one goes there
Fortinbras Armstrong
Apr 2013
#7
No, my answer to your question is that you don't really understand
Fortinbras Armstrong
Apr 2013
#14
Another person who wants to do whatever he wants without consequences
Fortinbras Armstrong
Apr 2013
#29
That is very true that parts of the bible would not be considered moral by todays standard.
hrmjustin
Apr 2013
#41
I think he makes the distinction very eloquently and it is an important one to make.
cbayer
Apr 2013
#12
Should liberal Catholics have their behavior contrasted with that of the new pope as well?
trotsky
Apr 2013
#13