Infallible and Fallible

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

What we envision becomes our reality. Let’s quit preparing for war and start preparing for peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Given the alternative of living without light, I prefer the light.
Given the alternative of living in despair, I choose to hope.
Given the alternative of living without laughter, I’ll take humor all the time.
Given the alternative of living without love, the choice is obvious.
Given the alternative of living without you… duh, that’s not possible!
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“At the end of the day, whoever has the most toys wins.”

[Many things about this one make me certain He never said it. Mainly, it’s child-ish, not child-like.]

D. Blog: Just Wondering…

1. I’m not up on the nature of infallibility, but the Pope apparently changed his mind about reinstating a Catholic official who didn’t think the Holocaust actually happened. Help me now. Isn’t that like admitting having made a mistake? (I notice Obama made such an admission related to the Daschle nomination for a cabinet position.) In my mind, a mistake equates with fallibility. But I could be mistaken…

2. I’m not clear about the recanting thing, either. It appears to me to be a matter of revising one’s opinion under pressure, having one’s arm twisted and saying “uncle” but not really believing it. Suppose we have Holocaust deniers visit the concentration camps, see the Holocaust memorials and museums, listen to/watch/read the stories of survivors. Then a little speaking tour, maybe a book, about their conversion to truth…

3. Is Dick Cheney taking unhappy pills? Maybe some anti-anti-paranoia medication? He must, as my wife suggests, have had too many briefings on possible terrorist activities. Such a gloomy Gus I have never seen. But then, suppose he’s right (nobody’s always wrong, either), and foreign (or native) terrorists strike again in the US. Let me see… we have some right to immunity from what’s happening in so many parts of the world? We have never wronged any of those folks who are that upset with the US? Our policies would never contribute to misery elsewhere in the world? We as a nation, in other words, are kind of like the Pope???

4. Perhaps a process similar to #2 is in order...