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3.19.07 @ 12:01AM

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Concerning my remarks about the Sean Hannity vs. Fr. Euteneuer dust up, I wrote them as a satire on both Protestants and Catholics. The human heart has a deep capability to deceive itself and Christians of all stripes rationalize following their wicked desires while knowing full good and well what the Church has taught. Many of us have even convinced ourselves we acquire a superior virtue in doing so. (Given the sexual immorality rampant at a great number of seminaries, the "grown up" sex sandals of the Bakers, Swaggarts, and Ted Haggerts really shouldn't surprise us.)

One would think that if we steadfastly refused to give our assent to a major teaching of any Church we should have enough integrity and respect to either admit we are poor and rebellious disciples or that we no longer belong. Given our sinful nature, most of the time we will do neither.

Too often in writing satire one hits another nerve he did not intend. Unfortunately, some construed my letter as an attack on Roman Catholicism itself. I assure all I have too much respect for Rome to actually compare it to "show business". I would hope those such as Mr. Richard L.A. Schaefer would reread my words and conclude that I was poking fun at both Catholics and Protestants who make fundamental exceptions for themselves over the claims of the faith.
-- Mike Dooley

ALL THE FIXINGS
Re: D. Chambers's letter (under "Missing Ben") in Reader Mail's Governmental Incompetence:

It is the gun shy Republicans and RINO'S engaging in the infamous "new tone" in Washington that are the problem. You hit the nail on the head when you criticized them for higher taxes and more spending. However, you lost me completely with your "... the dems are in to do some fixing." Unless you have been living under a mountain for the last several decades, you cannot possibly believe that the dems could fix anything related to taxing, spending, or the economy in general. In reality, you must know that "the dems" couldn't fix a one horse race. They belong to the political party that in spite of several thousand years of evidence to the contrary, yet believes that a country can tax itself into prosperity. Read our recent history. Read any country's recent history. Hell, read any history at all and you will see that this is true.

John Kerry may have proven that one can marry one's way into prosperity, and John Edwards may have proven that one can channel one's way there, and for that matter, the Kennedys have proven that one can bootleg one's way into prosperity, but, in the end, free enterprise and competition are necessary for the rest of us to make the trip.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

D. Chambers letter merits only one response.... HA, ha, ha, ha, ha. You think the economy is bad? Wait till Pelosi gets done with it.
-- Pete Chagnon

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