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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part I: Race Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_i_race#15534 Post contents: @Sid Cundiff: To write, as Pius XI does, that "None but superficial minds could . . . attempt to lock . . . within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe," is, once again, not to deny race, but to acknowledge it, and then to say that God is not the God of any single race, but of all men. You're reading your own ideas back into the Holy Father's text. If the Church really taught that the standard value of race is "zero," as you claim, then you should be able to find an unequivocal statement that this is so. The quotations that you offer are not such statements. To continue to make your claim in the absence of such statements is to insist that you know better what pontiffs and council fathers meant than they did themselves. Sent at: 2008 09 07