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Entry: Mutual Assured Damnation Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mutual_assured_damnation#239 Post contents: Hello CS! You say: "I preserve the hope that the magazine will come to swallow hard and review those dissenting arguments in light of the facts. Some of them will look quite prescient and it would be well for them to understand why." An unlikely development considering the rather well developed conceit so prominently in evidence at First Things. The journal now appears to have been nothing more than a house organ for an attempt to forge a political alliance of Evangelicals and Catholics, that despite its laboring to disguise the undertaking as a kind of extra-Church, "moral ecumenism". A man of Neuhaus' effete sensibilities would be loathe publically to admit a theological miscue no matter how poorly considered his judgements may have been. The whole First Things project rests on a very thin theological reed, a now long discredited pure naturalism of J. Courtney Murray vintage, it prospects for the future a kind of exile as Catholic theology finds more and more to its liking in the critiques of Murray by David Schindler. No, Father Neuhaus will die in his reveries before acknowledging the moral responsibility he bears to the Church for his war-mongering. And that he owes a moral debt to the Church would be true no matter what course history may have for the adventure in Iraq. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 11 23