segunda-feira, abril 11, 2005

Papistas graças a Deus
"I am not a Roman Catholic. In fact, I was raised in the old English tradition to think of the Roman Church as a sinister continental conspiracy — hatchet-faced Jesuits in purple robes, lurking in dark corridors, muttering subversion in Latin — to deprive honest Englishmen of their liberties. A few years’ acquaintance with the world showed me the absurdity of all that. Philip II of Spain has been dead for a very long time, and the great enemies of liberty in our own age have all been atheists. Hitler once declared his wish to hang the pope in full pontificals from a gibbet in St. Peter’s Square. Stalin sneered at the pontiff for not having any divisions. I don’t know what Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, and Pol Pot said about the Holy Father, but I feel sure it was not very respectful. Well, whatever side those guys are on, I want to be on the other side. Long live the papacy!"
Mais um excelente artigo do Derb, que apesar de anglicano suspeito ser, como eu (um agnóstico), um papista por falta de melhor opção.

posted by Blógico | 9:55 AM |