tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post4943471352313251668..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: A New Foreign Policy "Realpolitik" for America in dealing with Islamic Politics? Sounds like the position Rome has already adopted!Schützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-80738854137426335912008-11-14T10:12:00.000+11:002008-11-14T10:12:00.000+11:00Mmm. Well, that's a valid response, PE. I have cir...Mmm. Well, that's a valid response, PE. I have circulated the essay to some of my friends, including Jews and Muslims and asked for their reaction. We will see what comes of it. <BR/><BR/>I guess the question is what is this bloke trying to achieve. The answer is not "Truth" or "Interfaith Harmony", but an end to the threat of religiously motivated terrorism - specifically Islamic. In this he is quite pragmatic, and yes, you could take a cynical view of that pragmatism. <BR/><BR/>But I think from a purely pragmatic point of view, his suggested method is much more likely to succeed than the current "don't mention the religion" approach.Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-30024267491889412412008-11-14T02:04:00.000+11:002008-11-14T02:04:00.000+11:00If I believed Islam, or any religion to which this...If I believed Islam, or any religion to which this approach were taken, I would reject it as nothing more than imperialism, religious and otherwise, in its best disguise yet.<BR/><BR/>Sounds great right up to the end, and there, quashing any real effort to take religion seriously as a determinant of human behaviour, all of a sudden the religion in question is divided into those who believe and behave as we want them to and think their own texts say they should, and those who don't but we can change them.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.com