William Jennings Catholic

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There's much to admire in Catholicism, and I don't say this just to get in the good graces of my father-in-law. After all, he doesn't know the first thing about baldandeffective, and I'm hoping to keep it that way.

The fundamentalist Christians take a hard-line right-wing approach to all things, with a "poor people can go fuck themselves" attitude, which seems not remotely Christ-like to me. The fundamentalists should be out curing lepers, not taking away their food stamps.

Catholics tend to be a little more empathetic toward the poor, and there's a consistency in beliefs that I can admire, even if I don't necessarily agree with everything.

While the Kansas school board debates the teaching of Intelligent Design (i.e. creationism) vs. evolution (i.e. Evil-ution), Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria, a close friend and advisor to Pope Benny 16, is attempting to clear-up some of the assumptions people have about the Catholic Church's position on Darwin.

Apparently the Catholic faith is incompatible with neo-Darwinism. All you Catholic scientists? Time to choose.

It seems to me that the Catholic Church is Designing itself Intelligently after William Jennings Bryan, who in spite of his many admirable (and populist) positions, is now best known for his simple and foolish pro-creationist fight against Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Only time will tell if the Catholics face the same fate. Only time. Will. Tell.