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April 08, 2005
Swallowing the political dictionary...
There is nothing that pisses me off more than students who think that just because they were reasonably successful at A Level Sociology and they have been on a couple of anti-war marches that they have the authority to use words they obviously don’t understand. According to some young girl on Question Time the other night Pope John Paul II was a ‘Right wing, Neo-Capitalist.’
Well done young girl, you had your second of fame and you blew it.
I wish I had been on the panel, I would have pulled her up on it and asked her what exactly it was that made the Pope a capitalist, or a ‘neo’ one for that matter. Perhaps he has a hugely exploitative burger chain that I don’t know about.
I vehemently disagree with the Catholic Church’s stance on contraception and abortion, and this is why I could never be Catholic. I do however get hugely irritated by people from this side of the fence who hold the Pope responsible for these archaic laws, as if he had the power to change them.
Shouldn’t we at this time concentrate on what he could and did change?
Posted by purple elephant at April 8, 2005 11:56 AM