Brad Sallows said:I'm not sure why the beliefs and attitudes and acts of people dead for hundreds of years should be a stick to beat the churches and their followers of today, but perhaps that's a special sort of understanding that requires a special sort of brain chemistry.
I think one of the reasons for that is that, largely, the Vatican owes it's wealth and power to hundreds of years of the acts of those people. While I agree that the Church of today is not the same as the church of yesteryear some people will not view it that way.
Can anyone honestly say they didn't see this coming? Pope says (quotes) something about Mohammed, fanatics start retaliating. His advisors should have known better. Unfortunately world politics requires measured language because people are just looking for excuses.