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Entry: Islamo-Foosball Awareness Week Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/islamo_foosball_awareness_week#10256 Post contents: It is a little disappointing to read Dr Gottfried's unfortunate remarks about the "medieval church". It is disappointing because Dr Gottfried can nearly always be relied upon to approach a subject with intellectual honesty. But I am not going to condemn him because I believe that his honesty will one day lead him to come to look at the medieval Church somewhat differently. One writer here did try to correct Dr Gottfied, and did so very well, but I wanted to add another thought or two, so I scrolled down past Mr Cundiff's usual eighty-seven paragraphs to see if anyone else brought up the point that the Catholic Church does not subjugate people. Any people. The issue of the Jewish ghettos was brought up but without the historical background that goes on to explain why such seemingly drastic action was taken. If our Jewish friends realize (as we all have had to realize) that they are not, as a people, somehow "immaculately conceived", do in fact occasionally commit terrible crimes (as, alas, have all peoples everywhere), and study honestly how and why the ghettos came into being in the first place then perhaps we can all start looking at this issue calmly and intelligently. This is not to excuse harshness or a lack of charity committed by one people against another. But there are two sides to every story. That "other side" to the story can be found in the writings of Prof James J Walsh, Hilaire Belloc and William Thomas Walsh, among others and I could do no better than to recommend to readers the works of these authors. Sent at: 2008 05 16