NP my anti-Catholicism

[Monica Belevan]

I do believe the papacy runs a political agenda, as it has openly done 
through history, but this is the only pertinent course of action to sustain 
the legitimacy of it as an insititution--in a way, it explicitates the need 
for a papacy in a global, trans-Christian context. And as we all know, it is 
more often than not that justifications used are merely excuses, excuses, 
and more excuses for the inexcusable...

On the other hand, whoever said political PC maneuvers, such as affirmative 
action today, are any prettier? It seems everyone is quid pro quoing, and 
that as a result, a lot of people are capable of sleeping soundly, as if 
real or convincing amendments had been made.

What´s done is done.

--Monica


>From: JBFRAME at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: NP my anti-Catholicism
>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:50:31 EDT
>
>The two Indios beatified by the Pope reported to Spanish colonial 
>authorities
>that the people in their village had reverted to worshiping some of the old
>gods.  When the Spaniards got this information they sent in troops who
>massacred the inhabitants.  A group of survivors "martyred" the two in
>retaliation for their treason.
>This celebration of genocide is in the grand tradition of most of
>post-crucifixion Christianity.
>
>jbf




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