Sunday, September 17, 2006
How to Apologize...
Yeah, right. This is about the Pope. First let me say that I think Muslims are way too easy to take offense at anything they feel is an insult to their religiion. Get a real life folks. If you can't take a little ribbing from those who are usually too dumb to know any better, you really need to lighten up.
Second, in this current atmosphere of religious fervor and considering volitile Muslims specifically, what the Pope said was really stupid. Sure, I know he didn't think up those actual words (criticism of the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus) that are making offense. But he did say them. And he didn't add any caveat to them. That's like me quoting Hitler about the Jews without qualifying that statement and not expecting anyone to take offense about that statement. Add to that fact that I'm pretty much nobody and the Pope's the diety assigned leader of a major religion.
On top of all that, you really have to love the apology he made:
(yahoo.news) "... I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," he [the pope] told pilgrims at his Castelgandolfo summer residence.
Talk about not taking responsibility. I'm not sorry I acted stupid, but I sure am sorry you acted stupid. But then again, that's something to be expected of religions - irrationality.
