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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (81122)3/11/2003 4:48:57 AM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hitchens asks a really GOOD question, LB! >>>>One wonders what it would take for the Vatican to condemn Saddam's regime.

Baathism consecrates an entire country to the worship of a single human being.

Its dictator has mosques named after himself.

I'm not the expert on piety, but isn't there something blasphemous about this from an Islamic as well as a Christian viewpoint?

I suppose if Saddam came out for partial-birth abortions or the ordination of women or the acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle he might be hit with a condemnation of some sort.

(Until recently, one might have argued that his abuse of children would get him in hot water with the Vatican, too. But even that expectation now seems vain.)

In one way, the church's "peace at any price" policy is a historical improvement.
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