The Church must not effect an internal democracy, in order to qualify as an integral part of a so-called Democracy.
(kreuz.net) The socially liberal Peruvian Nobel Laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa (75) has humanly and morally gone to the dogs.
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He lives in concubinage, is Godless, defends the violence of abortion and the murderous abortifacient pill.
He knows about as much about legislating as the whale knows about ice skating.
However, there has been a brief flash of light in the darkness of his soul.
This is according to the Church-hate journalist Paul Ingendaay (50) yesterday in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung'.
Tight lipped and grumpy
Vargas Llosa had "enjoyed" the Madrid Pope Visit.
He found that so many happy, charming people singing and dancing to celebrate the Pope was beautiful.
The writer commented on the Pope's visit in his regular editorial for the Spanish Church-hate Newspaper, 'El Pais'.
He is to have "this effect on "the tight-lipped, grumpy Spanish clergy" -- said the poisonous Ingendaay with an unqualified hatred which did an injustice to Vargas Llosa.
One should rework Ingendaay's formulation on the tongue:
"He surely didn't have much effect on the tight-lipped, grumpy Spanish Rabbis." How does that sound coming from the mouth of a German?
That's what the Church is there for -- at least for Vargaas Llosa
Vargas Llosa described how hate-demonstrators and woman haters in Madrid threw condoms at some girls praying in public.
The Church has a moral panoply, said Vargas Llosa, which is even for those, who do not follow Her teachings.
She offers an ethical measuring stick in times where lust, shameless egoism and corruption dominates the public sphere.
That is exactly why the Church is there.
Science and Culture have Failed
The Catholic Church must not effect an inner Democracy, in order to qualify as an integral part of the --- so-called --- democracy, wrote the writer.
A democratic Church is in any event only "a dream".
The Church as an authoritarian, not uncongenial institution, strengthens the commonwealth whose worldly epistemic effects like Science or Culture are proven to be worthless without it.
So long as the Church grasps at no political power and the political power does not constrain the Church while maintaining its neutrality, religion is not only allowable in a Democratic society, but it's indispensable.
The Pope has convinced him to have been, "possibly the most educated and intelligent Pope, which the Church has had in a very long time."
Vargas Llosa has read a few of the Pope's books, without yawning.
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