VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1361360245|CONTENT|I like how he said “Counter-Reformation” as the historical reason for the authoritarian approach, not “Roman Inquisition”, which was what followed as a direct consequence and is how the authoritarian approach actually worked. Maybe he thought that “Counter-Reformation” sounded a bit more philosophical and intellectual than “Inquisition”. Maybe he felt that associating Authoritarian Catholicism with the murder of over a thousand dissenters would have prejudiced the discussion a bit. Maybe he’d have struggled to convince a normal, reasonable person that this side of the debate had any moral underpinning. Perhaps he even thought that the listeners would have drawn unreasonable conclusions about Benedict and JPII from the fact that this was their preferred option.

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