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Entry: Pope Benedict XVI and Islam: Allah the Irrational Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/pope_benedict_xvi_and_islam_allah_the_irrational#1841 Post contents: This Scott Richert article is a gem. As I was reading it, I was thinking of former students and various contacts to whom I need to send the link because Richert here says wonderfully many things I have emphasized more clumsily. Pope Benedict's emphasis on the right translation of 'Logos,' and what that means for the Faith, is something that all Christians need to take to heart and mind. That is not something that the horde of quickie commentators on the Regensburg Address tend to examine. Perhaps foremost, I am pleased that Richert makes the connection between Belloc's declaration that the Faith is Europe and Europe the Faith and Benedict's emphasis on Greek philosophy. Absolutely, "Greek philosophy is intrinsic to Christianity." Pull out Greek philosophy, specifically those of Plato and Aristotle, and you end up with all kinds of heresies run amuck and that tend to be defended irrationally. Where I would like to see Richert, or others, go with this is to compare the capriciousness of the Mohammedan god with the capriciousness of Talmudic god and then compare the pair to the Fertility Cult gods of the child sacrifice Semites. Is the matter one basically of Greek-led intellectual and moral European culture versus Semitic culture, the former being necessary to non-heretical Christianity and its healthy culture, the latter standing against Christianity and its healthy culture in sundry forms, demanding to Semitize both? Is that the reason that even mild Judaizing produces poisonous fruit that kills orthodox Christianity and healthy Christian culture? Sent at: 2008 11 21