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Imagine

September 17, 2006 |

Imagine you were a Pope with a deep interest in and knowledge of Islam.

Imagine you believed very deeply in the unity of faith and reason. That you took the Enlightenment with reservations but seriously.

Imagine that you saw what might be the terminal decline of your Church in Europe and Europe itself. And imagine that you had been at the right hand of a Pontiff whose solution had been public relations and charisma on a massive scale.

Imagine that you had long believed something rather more black and white was needed.

And imagine that you believed that the only hope for the renewal of Europe and faith in Europe was a clear and unmistakable rallying to the banner of the West.

Now, would it not occur to you that a sentence or two in an otherwise unexceptionable speech might well light the fires of just such a rebirth.

Pope Benedicct’s remarks may have been the error of an unworldly prelate unaware of the firrestorm the Danish cartoons caused, unable to comprehend the massive distortions perpetrated by MSM, unequal to the task of treading softly as any tame Pope is supposed to.

Or they may have been the first cry of a crusading, evangelical Pope trying to rose his flock to the danger it is in. A quiet call to faith and reason in stark opposition to madness and jihad.

Imagine if it is.


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