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Entry: Libertarians in Heaven Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blessed_libertarian#13398 Post contents: First, I ask for Mr Purcell's indulgence while I respond to Mr Kowalski in a way which might digress from Mr Purcell's provocative article. Mr kowalski (small k) wrote: "Looking about, I see no signs that we are at “the beginning of the great renewal of Christendom.” Who will bring this about? Black Africans and Chinese?" Maybe they will. Why not? Just as (the Jew) St Paul corrected and reproached many Jewish Christians who were reluctant to believe that the Gospel belonged to Gentiles as well as to Jews, so today, Western and White Christians need to remember that the Body of Christ has no nation and no race. As Jesus said to some Jews who believed their ancestry made them special in the eyes of God: "Do not tell me you are Sons of Abraham; God can turn these STONES into Sons of Abraham!" Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return, and so will all races and all DNA and all nations, and for that matter, all civilisations too. DNA is just sophisticated dust, and all of the races and cultures and even the civilisations of Man - except for the Church - are dust as well, shadows and dust. "I understand why liberals think JP II was Great. What I don’t understand is why traditionalists do. I have a picture of the man kissing the Koran, which tells lies about Jesus and Mary." But the Koran includes many truths with which the Church agrees, especially the truth that, "La illaha illa lah", there is no god but THE God", which means (or Muhammed intended it to mean) that Islam shuns and repudiates all idols. THAT part of the Koran is unobjectionable, and Pope JP II was quite right to kiss the Koran which has brought countless people, and peoples and nations, out of the darkness of idolatry. Didn't Muhammed do SOME good - more good than ill - by leading legions of pagans out of idolatry, at a time when (perhaps?) most of them were NOT quite yet ready to understand the Gospel? Sometimes I think that maybe Muhammed WAS a true prophet of God - a prophet who had a special role to play in a particular time and place, as one step in God's revelations to many who lived in darkness before Muhammed preached to them. WHO ARE WE to say that WE know ALL of God's plans to convert the entire Human Race to faith in Christ? Maybe God DID choose Muhammed to play a special role, in a way we cannot yet understand. And you wrote: "He (JP II) traveled more than any other pope, and made a celebrity of himself." If you're equating him with publicity hounds like Paris Hilton, then go f--- yourself up the ass with a porcupine. "His World Youth Days were an orgy of idiotic celebrating of nothing." I smell the nihilist smoke of Satan in that remark. "My own prediction of the future is the following: Murder. Lots of it. Not by us, but of us." And that smells even more Satanic. Sent at: 2008 10 07