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Reuters: Significant numbers of non-Christians are coming to Marian shrines to venerate the BVM. Since [WARNING: Protestant bias ahead] the Catholic cult of saints arose in the first place as a syncretistic compromise between Greco-Roman paganism and Christianity, this turnabout seems only fair. Speaking of bias, for those of you who doubt that the mainstream media has a liberal slant, check out these quotes from the article:
"They have sinned against God and given scandal to the faithful," thundered the U.S. monthly Catholic Family News.
Challenging that view earned the respected theologian a secretive three-year investigation by the Vatican's stern doctrinal chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
posted by Carlos @ 10:27 AM
2 Comments:
Carlos, I didn't see a liberal slant here. The article presented this religious syncretism as new and newsworthy. In my mind, a liberal slant would make it sound normal and point out things like Pope JP2 stating that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all worship the same God. Pablo
The story isn't terribly biased, I'll grant, but a couple of words the journalist used to describe conservatives ("thundered," "stern") have negative connotations.
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