"The danger of a dictatorship of opinion is growing, and anyone who doesn't share the prevailing opinion is excluded, so that even good people no longer dare to stand by (such) nonconformists. Any future anti-Christian dictatorship would probably be much more subtle than anything we have known until now. It will appear to be friendly to religion, but on the condition that its own models of behavior and thinking not be called into question." - Cardinal Ratzinger, Salt of the Earth, On the State of the Church (1996)
Sunday, January 15, 2012
This grabbed my attention the other day while I was looking for something else...
"The danger of a dictatorship of opinion is growing, and anyone who doesn't share the prevailing opinion is excluded, so that even good people no longer dare to stand by (such) nonconformists. Any future anti-Christian dictatorship would probably be much more subtle than anything we have known until now. It will appear to be friendly to religion, but on the condition that its own models of behavior and thinking not be called into question." - Cardinal Ratzinger, Salt of the Earth, On the State of the Church (1996)
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"The danger of a dictatorship of opinion is growing, and anyone who doesn't share the prevailing opinion is excluded"
ReplyDeleteReminds me of some commboxes on blogger hahahahaha!!
Mindyou, as you know Terry, I'm not one for rocking the boat, if I can agree, I do.
What?
BTW Terry, have you seen this over at Fr John Abberton's blog?
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Anti-Christian dictatorship? Please. Explain how things like this still happen:
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Yup, a 16 year old girl being threatened with brutal violence by Christians for standing up for the separation of church and state.
prophetic.
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