Unable to demagogue religion, now the only outlet / pastime for some is to demagogue other individuals, especially from the opposite camp. One person's demagoguery is another person's satire. This depends on which end the writers or the readers are. Demagoguery a.k.a. petoita murre, is a lot easier than writing a thoughtful, factual, useful article.
I was reading the Pope's visit to his hometown Bavaria, Germany. I found the following from Fox News interesting in light of the discussions we had here on religion. "Nonetheless, I think that we all join in the hope that the coming generations may remain true to the spiritual heritage," the Pope said. "My wish is that all my countrymen in Bavaria and Germany together actively participate in the handing down of the foundational values of the Christian faith to the citizens of tomorrow." Many Catholics in Germany, as elsewhere in the West, complain about Benedict's opposition to ordination of women, gay marriage and married priests. More than 100,000 Germans officially leave the church every year, at least some of them to avoid paying a church tax levied by the government and used to finance the church. Although the number leaving was down to 101,000 in 2004 from 129,000 the year before, only about 14 percent of German Catholics attend Sunday Mass. GL adds: I guess the other 86% - "former Catholics" - may call themselves atheists / agnostics. That's more intellectual than saying, "over-slept from too much prosit and wunder brau" (beer) on Saturday night.:=)) Regards, GL _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
