Because, of course, it is indisputable that requesting a practice which is known to be damaging the planet be stopped is directly comparable to staking a live human being under a peat bog.
Remember, boys and girls, there was a (remote) chance that this man might have been Pope!
Notice also that there is implicitely no connection between the Modern, Forward Looking Church, and some regrettable actions of the past (which must, naturally, be understood in the context in which they occurred), while there explicitely is a direct, unbroken and causative link between those peat-bog Celts, and Blood-for-Odin Vikings, and modern Neo-Pagans -- why, they could start sacrificing children at any moment!!1!
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Date: 2006-05-05 02:15 am (UTC)Remember, boys and girls, there was a (remote) chance that this man might have been Pope!
Notice also that there is implicitely no connection between the Modern, Forward Looking Church, and some regrettable actions of the past (which must, naturally, be understood in the context in which they occurred), while there explicitely is a direct, unbroken and causative link between those peat-bog Celts, and Blood-for-Odin Vikings, and modern Neo-Pagans -- why, they could start sacrificing children at any moment!!1!