{"id":309,"date":"2006-09-15T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=309"},"modified":"2006-09-15T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T21:01:41","slug":"the-holy-father-and-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/15\/the-holy-father-and-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Father and Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI gave the speech on Tuesday, days ago now, but it&#8217;s all just now starting to get into the news. Certainly I first year about it today. I of course do the right thing and go find a copy &#038; read it. Hard to know what to think about reactions to what the Holy Father said without actually knowing what he said, huh?<\/p>\n<p>So I read it and am not especially outraged. He quotes a fourteenth century Byzantine emperor, quoting a rather charged statement actually, but qualifying the quotation by noting that it&#8217;s a rather charged statement. And apparently I read an early translation of the orginal German into English, which translation misses even more qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>But,\u00a0okay,\u00a0I&#8217;m not a follower of Islam, so I won&#8217;t pretend that I can adequately judge their sensitivies to bias and insult. I myself am fairly sensitive to anti-Catholic sentiment, heck, was so when I didn&#8217;t particularly believe in God. So let&#8217;s just stipulate that what the Holy Father said is in fact offensive to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Does that justify fire-bombing churches? (Although neither of the two churches bombed in Nablus were actually Catholic churches. One was Anglican and the other Greek Orthodox.) And shooting and killing a Catholic nun in Mogadishu? That&#8217;s just fucking crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI gave the speech on Tuesday, days ago now, but it&#8217;s all just now starting to get into the news. Certainly I first year about it today. I of course do the right thing and go find a copy &#038; read it. Hard to know what to think about reactions to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/15\/the-holy-father-and-islam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Holy Father and Islam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}