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Article: We're All Liberals Now : Even the pope.
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- Commonweal
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- November 19, 1999
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First of all, I think we might imagine today's event as a three-hour rebuttal to Governor Jesse Ventura and his claim that participants in organized religion are weak-minded. I wish he were here with us today. I think he might come to realize that his description of religion as a crutch has it exactly backwards. Faith is more challenge than crutch, an intellectual provocation.
I have been accused of being a feliciopath. I think it is meant as a compliment. But I would define it here clinically as the delusion of seeing good where it manifestly doesn't exist, or seeing concord where there's nothing but disagreement. I want to live up to that charge by arguing that ...