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CORRESPONDENCE Iraq Commentary I regret that you saw fit to give house room to conservatives who have joined the liberal jackals in trashing Bush's foreign policy via yet another malicious attack...
...We Don't Make This Stuff Up Please use the enclosed address label to take my wife's name off your mailing list...
...And Kerry knows this...
...Therefore He could not have been God...
...America had enough of the Clintons, regardless how popular and powerful, a dubious term, the press seems to report them as being...
...A recent article about evolution and Darwinism and now "Are We Alone...
...NORMAN PODHORETZ Editor-at-Large Commentary New York, New York Courage, honesty, or a positive vision seem surprisingly absent in the character of the political leaders of today...
...FRED W. FOX Corvallis, Oregon Cheeky Archbishop In his article "Kerry Catholicism" in the April 2004 issue, writer George Neumayr notes that St...
...Best leave that to the Expert...
...When the mechanics of life are involved, it's downright arrogant...
...JOAN CHRISTENSEN Roselle Park, New Jersey Divine Indigestion As a scientist and a Christian, I find myself in agreement with the superb Tom Bethell's views on evolution ("Passionate About Evolution," TAS, April 2004), save one...
...The Vatican may scratch the prideful itch of the pseudo-sophisticates inside and out of the Church, but this is not how a good shepherd should act...
...PATRICK HYNES Annapolis, Maryland JUNE 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9...
...TIM BRADLEY Altadena, California Out of Touch R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s "The Woman in Kerry's Future" (Public Nuisances, TAS, April 2004) is dead wrong in thinking that Hillary Clinton is considered as a running mate for Kerry...
...Why would God have to eat food...
...Hillary will never see the inside of the White House as a resident...
...No way Jose...
...of A. ROBERT J. POWERS Shreveport, Louisiana It just dawned on me that Bob Tyrrell's "The Continuing Crisis" column in TAS was the world's first Blog, albeit a low-tech one...
...Why keep a redundant cause of the cosmic payroll...
...In such circumstances, some people scratch their head trying to figure out what the pope meant while others take the answer that best suits their disposition and then go off and act accordingly...
...And if we eventually learn that He laid out a plan very similar to what we now call evolution, it shouldn't lessen our faith a whit...
...Bethell asks through a surrogate, in much the same vein as my Muslim friend...
...Conservatives everywhere support his efforts, many enthusiastically...
...Louis, was merely being arch...
...Figuratively speaking, this is exactly what has happened on a broad range of issues within the Church...
...For remember, Jesus said, "But let your communication be, Yea for yea...
...Nothing more than an ephemeral burst of superfluous energy...
...We really don't want this kind of literature coming into our home...
...It says in your Bible that Jesus ate food," he patiently explained...
...His blithe dismissal of the possibility of divinely inspired 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2004 CORRESPONDENCE evolution reminds me of a Saudi who, while I was working in the kingdom, tried to convince me that Christianity was a hoax...
...Regarding the subject's first paragraph (The Continuing Crisis, TAS, May 2004), vichysoisse may sound French, and may be symbolically apposite to JFK II, but it was invented right here in the U.S...
...I feel very much like a voice in the wilderness getting the national and the state GOP to take notice of the Catholic vote in the state...
...CORRESPONDENCE Iraq Commentary I regret that you saw fit to give house room to conservatives who have joined the liberal jackals in trashing Bush's foreign policy via yet another malicious attack on neoconservatism, but I have better things to do than answer their specious arguments ("Neoconservatism Is Not Reaganism," TAS, April 2004...
...Many bishops, theologians, and other religious now feel too free to act according to their own personal set of beliefs...
...But as a Christian, I'll not presume to know the best way to create life in a Universe...
...He's probably way too busy tracking down all the virgins needed to supply the multitude of back-orders he's gotten the last fewyears...
...It's very lonely some of the time...
...PETER SKU RKI SS Chester Township, New Jersey Vichysoisse Blog ,71r...
...Nay for nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil" (Matt: 5:37...
...This came about because, for whatever reason, the pope did not formulate a consistent link between his words, traditional Church teaching, and his deeds as head of the Church...
...Hopefully, we'll still be allowed to sit in the pews in back...
...If he's really as unfamiliar with the Catholic concept of forgiveness as his remark suggests, I could send him some literature on it...
...George W. Bush is an exception...
...Perhaps the archbishop, being from St...
...And the general tone of other articles in your magazine leaves me speechless...
...The Upstate (Abbeville, Anderson, Chester, Greenville, Greenwood, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, and York counties) has the highest percentage of Catholics in the state, and we're increasing by leaps and bounds...
...It took the Vatican 400 years to acknowledge Galileo, and I wonder if it will be in the 25th century before some people finally see the light about other aspects of our cosmos...
...Nuances upon nuances...
...And here deeds include both acts of commission and omission...
...Apparently, for all his fabulous powers, Allah doesn't have the ability to manifest a gastrointestinal tract...
...I am a Catholic Republican in Upstate South Carolina...
...Instead of simply (and justifiably) calling the science into question, Bethell seems intent on establishing blind acceptance of Creationism as a litmus test to distinguish those who truly believe from the wishy-washy rest of us...
...Their popularity resides betwixt the devil, the deep blue sea, and a cynical electorate...
...For example, imagine yourself asking JPII if the Four Last Things should still be taken seriously...
...But no human endeavor is perfect, and suspending critical thought helps no one...
...At best it is a cursory consideration...
...Limbaugh, for God's sake...
...No doubt about it...
...Here is a man who wants to live up to his duty and with courage...
...The point is that placing any sort of limitations on a Supreme Being seems a bit presumptuous...
...Because it would be Hillary's presidency, not Kerry's, if he were so elected...
...Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke said he would withhold Holy Eucharist from John Kerry because of Kerry's libertine voting record...
...It turns out that a friend thought he was subscribing a progressive magazine for us and picked up the wrong card...
...He's apt to say "yes," at the same time nod hishead "no," and then walk away to end the conversation...
...Spectator.org ought to run it as a daily feature, no...
...Hence the confusion...
...I cast my vote with Sagan, Hawking, Einstein, Schweitzer, and a host of others to support the views I find rational...
...ELIZABETH WHITAKER Easley, South Carolina Reading the Pope Tom Bethell is right...
...simply blow my mind...
...It's a canard of the vilest sort that all residents of Upstate South Carolina are Fundament-alists...
...Tyrrell is out of touch with the average American's sense of decency and its acceptance thereof...
...Chirac, Schroeder, or the thankfully departed from the political scene Chretien in Canada inspire revulsion with politics rather than respect...
...HANA SCHOLZ Stirling, Ontario (Editor's Note: For more on the Halper-Clarke essay, see "Reagan, Iraq, and Neoconservatism: An Exchange," p. 30...
...Perhaps, since He's a conservative himself, God's labor union isn't constrained by strict work rules...
...Maybe you should ask George Shultz to explain to Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke why he, evidently one of their heroes, is so fervent a supporter of the invasion of Iraq...
...As a scientist, I agree with Tom: The hard evidence for evolution is lacking...
...RICH TRZUPEK Streamwood, Illinois Having recently read your very excellent April issue, I can't thank y'all enough for writing copiously about the need to get out the Catholic vote ("Winter Dreams," TAS, April 2004...
...Thank you for publishing "Neoconservatism Is Not Reaganism" in the April TAS...
...A strong case can be made that the weak stewardship of Pope John Paul II has indeed allowed confusion to grow in the Church like an untreated cancer ("Laissez Faire Pope," TAS, May 2004...
Vol. 37 • June 2004 • No. 5
