This post is not terribly funny

So the Pope had the nerve, the audacity, to recount a discussion held in the thirteen hundreds regarding Islamic conversion techniques. What’s more, the quote he recounted from this discussion claimed these tactics to be evil.

Oh Snap! No he didn’t!

That’s right, we’re no longer allowed to quote a discussion which might offend someone, let alone make the assertion ourselves. Certainly not if you are the Pope! The Pope isn’t allowed to reference or make assertions as to the absolute nature of something being good or evil!

Except, that very much is part of his duty within the Catholic church. So, Hurray! We get to have the same old arguments about the Papacy! Except this time, it’s not Puritans, Protestants, or Anglicans, telling the Catholic church how it needs to behave, but rather the media, and a bunch of primitive screwballs lighting things on fire in front of Al Jazeera cameras.

To the media, and the government, thanks for making it impossible to actually speak ones mind in a cogent manner. Oh, we all had some laughs about political correctness back in the day, about how someone wasn’t short, they were vertically challenged and whatnot, no doubt. But the joke stopped being funny when those speech codes got teeth.

Ratzinger was called a Nazi when he was selected to be the Pope. Without going into it for the 8000th time, those charges are slanderous at best. Ratzinger was as much a Nazi as someone who ditched the draft in the Vietnam war was a soldier. But he’s Catholic, and as such, is fair game. Catholics don’t burn embassies down when we get angry!

But no, he has the temerity to call forced conversion at pain of death for non-compliance evil. And that’s just not allowed. Because Muslims DO light things on fire, like buildings, bombs, themselves, in such places as Planes, Subways, and pizza parlors.

Does anyone really have a problem with calling mandatory conversion under pain of death anything other than evil? We’re not allowed to speak in moral absolutes though. I suppose we should say nothing harsher then to suggest it is tactless, and possibly a party-foul.

So in short, we are not allowed to condemn heinous acts perpetrated by a very specific group of people, but when they say that everyone who doesn’t believe their faith must die, we must accept that, and ponder why it is that they have these screwed beliefs.

To political correctness: Thanks for turning our language against us. Thanks a lot. And can someone please get rid of their matches?