tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post8810181731033328568..comments2024-03-10T04:29:20.044-04:00Comments on Mad Genius Club: Have you heard the one about the Priest who....Sarah A. Hoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478124095732219352noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-33244401266979069702009-02-16T10:14:00.000-05:002009-02-16T10:14:00.000-05:00I've sort of avoided this discussion, as I'm a Rom...I've sort of avoided this discussion, as I'm a Roman Catholic--and I fully understand that the Church makes a broad and widely-accepted target these days. There are lots of analogs, of course, but I think the failures and the violations of the Catholic Church are close enough to home for a lot of people that it's almost too convenient. A New York Times art critic, about ten years ago, wrote a wonderful column about how tolerant people are of attacks on the Catholic Church, when they wouldn't tolerate (it wouldn't be politically correct, in other words) to attack other faiths. I don't know, though. It seems to me that Mormonism has become fair game, and of course Islam. My own feeling, as one of the faithful, is that if it works for your story, you do it; if you're working out your demons, you find another way.Louise Marleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668748880280941869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-33323351759508304202009-02-16T03:33:00.000-05:002009-02-16T03:33:00.000-05:00Dear OriIsrael does make the Italian political sys...Dear Ori<BR/><BR/>Israel does make the Italian political system look organisd. Mind you, given the mess our own bunch of clowns have made of the economy, I am not sure we British should be pointing fingers.<BR/><BR/>I am afraid the Jews do still get blamed, look up Bishop Williamson and the Society of St Pius X - one of the madder offshoots of the Vatican.<BR/><BR/>JohnJohn Lambsheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598696442104566164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-77846892602390347712009-02-16T03:28:00.000-05:002009-02-16T03:28:00.000-05:00Dear RowenaThe Vataica has done wonders for some w...Dear Rowena<BR/>The Vataica has done wonders for some writers' careers, Philip Pullman and dan brown spring to mind.<BR/>JohnJohn Lambsheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598696442104566164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-50042104278025708302009-02-15T22:18:00.000-05:002009-02-15T22:18:00.000-05:00At least nobody is blaming us Jews anymore. I thin...At least nobody is blaming us Jews anymore. I think that was the whole point of Zionism - to build a Jewish state and show the whole world how badly it would be governed. This shows that the whole idea of a world Jewish plot ludicrous. We couldn't even agree what food to serve in the meetings, or how to pronounce the Hebrew words.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I hope you don't mind - I invited some Catholic friends to respond.Ori Pomerantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07162568025752213764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-77067623502504815342009-02-14T18:25:00.000-05:002009-02-14T18:25:00.000-05:00If you were world building for a book and came up ...If you were world building for a book and came up with something like the Vatican people would say it was too over the top to be believable!Rowena Cory Daniellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08995983965583233914noreply@blogger.com