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To: Cronos

Did you read the article? The “baby killer” was not stated in the article as a quote - it was, indeed headline hyperbole - and is a fair complaint on it’s face

BUT

The point in the article made was this quote: “I think of the ‘massacre of the innocents’. Children are dying in Gaza, their mothers’ shouts is a perennial cry, a universal cry”

This a fair complaint as well. It is not a far extrapolation (in the historical context) to get to the headline, but it is an extrapolation.

Are you stating that the quote listed in the article attributed to the Cardinal is manufactured?

If not, saying “It never happened” is not an entirely fair or honest point, and is a denial of Clintonian proportions. You are saying “the literal headline isn’t true, so nothing in the article is true”


133 posted on 11/22/2012 10:50:38 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer
Are you stating that the quote listed in the article attributed to the Cardinal is manufactured? -- yes, as Natural law points out, this article a militantly anti-Catholic article misquoting the Cardinal's introduction to Pope Benedict's third volume on Jesus of Nazareth.

In his remarks the Cardinal mentioned a cycle of violence in the middle east dating back thousands of years and cited Herrod's killing of the innocent among several examples

What is incredible is the number of people who have jumped on it an ignored the statments like

“The recent barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza into Southern Israel represents a continuing pattern of morally unjustifiable uses of indiscriminate force against civilians,” - Bishop Richard Pates, Chairman of the USCCB Justice-and-Peace Committee

136 posted on 11/22/2012 10:55:38 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: RFEngineer
You are saying “the literal headline isn’t true, so nothing in the article is true”

yes, the rest of the article is just like the title. If they can distort things so wildly, what more can you believe? It's just like the New York Times on Obama

remember the next time you read an anti-Catholic article posted like this, it's just the pro-Obama prss hitting Christianity

137 posted on 11/22/2012 10:58:30 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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