tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post115836508667994440..comments2024-03-28T23:42:23.455+08:00Comments on KTemoc Konsiders ........: Pope Benedict Shattered Glass House & GoodwillKTemochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09951253039042572381noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-1158833833852257032006-09-21T18:17:00.000+08:002006-09-21T18:17:00.000+08:00The goodwill his predecessor had built up with his...The goodwill his predecessor had built up with his open hearted and generous bridge buildingKTemochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951253039042572381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-1158815042349181622006-09-21T13:04:00.000+08:002006-09-21T13:04:00.000+08:00What 'goodwill' is there to shatter ktemoc? Please...What 'goodwill' is there to shatter ktemoc? Please expound on some of these 'goodwill' you are referring to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-1158376081146853542006-09-16T11:08:00.000+08:002006-09-16T11:08:00.000+08:00This is what I find most disagreeable: that people...This is what I find most disagreeable: that people should mistake a valid discussion on the primacy of reason in the impulse of greek thought married to the Christian faith as some wayward discussion on the nature of jihad and the nature of Islam. I find it difficult to comprehend how the Pope's quotation can be misapprehended in the larger context of his speech delivered at Regensburg. <BR/><BR/>It might do people good to read the speech in its entirety. In fact, the many theologians and scientists present at Regensburg would have got the references made by Pope Benedict. Manuel was an honorary hostage to the Ottoman empire as assurance of the good behaviour of his father John VII. His arguments with the 'Persian' at a barracks in Ankara was most probably going on during one of the sieges the Ottoman empire raised, and in which Manuel was *forced* to participate.<BR/><BR/>Isn't it hypocritical for a Byzantine and a Persian to discuss the rightness or wrongness of war perpetuated by religion? Because both fought on the pretext of religion. <BR/><BR/>The Pope's speech was more than just a mere juxtaposition. If people have actually read and understood what he was saying, they'd know that he was actually making a huge, massive attack on post-Enlightenment rationality, which prizes a certain view of human ends devoid of any considerations of religion. Also, he makes an attack on the view of the divine devoid from reason. There's just so much more that he says that make those quotes sensible in the context in which they are said.<BR/><BR/>But of course, latch on to that quote. It seems to justify Muslim anger, whatever that means.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com