{"id":1676,"date":"2006-09-22T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T13:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2006\/09\/22\/which-is-what-he-wanted\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T13:54:19","slug":"which-is-what-he-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2006\/09\/22\/which-is-what-he-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is what he wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1340'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Times hasn&#8217;t come yet this morning, so I read the Crimson (which I&#8217;ve done more this week than in the previous four years).  For once the ed page had something insightful and intelligent.<\/p>\n<p><img><\/p>\n<p>I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/baptizedpagan.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/of-benedict-islam-and-regrets.html\">Baptized Pagan was right<\/a>.  Benedict was up to something here, and although he may have not considered the implications of his words, he&#8217;s highlighted a problem at the heart of another religion.<\/p>\n<p>As a letter to the Times put it earlier this week,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Media coverage of Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s speech has underreported two facts: The Roman Catholic Church openly opposed the American-led war in Iraq, and the church has generally opposed the Israeli presence in the occupied territories.<br \/>Muslim leaders, take note: On the two most inflammatory issues in the world today, the Catholic Church is on your side. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/benedict xvi\" rel=\"tag\">benedict xvi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/catholic\" rel=\"tag\">catholic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/queer\" rel=\"tag\">queer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/religion\" rel=\"tag\">religion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times hasn&#8217;t come yet this morning, so I read the Crimson (which I&#8217;ve done more this week than in the previous four years). For once the ed page had something insightful and intelligent. I think the Baptized Pagan was right. Benedict was up to something here, and although he may have not considered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-r2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}