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Amidst the criticism the Catholic church recently received for proclaiming their own doctrine, which didn't include extremism or usurpation of secular governments, there were two responses from unlikely sources.  The first comes from Canada and the Edmonton Sun which lamented the miserable condition of Western Liberals:

Unless we start a nice little revolution I suppose it's pretty much inevitable that the Western world will crash down in flames and failure, splashing around in its own decadence and materialism as it does so. Our opponents have absolute faith and are willing to die. We have the Spice Girls, global warming documentaries and socialized medicine.

And while the fundamentalist foot crunches down on our fleshy necks, we will scream in polished and rehearsed tones, "We're offended, we're offended." The rallying cry of the liberal, modernist world. "I'm offended. Please feel my pain. I'm offended."

CLARIFIED

Which is precisely what various critics, some of them conservative evangelical Christians, said this week when Pope Benedict XVI merely clarified and emphasized Roman Catholic teaching concerning the truth of Catholicism and the place of non-Catholics.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church had the audacity to say that, wait for it, Roman Catholicism was right.

He did?!  How dare he!  Religion is silly (except Islam which is culture)!

Also, from the very non-Catholic Baptist Press:

I will let Bishop Hanson explain his pain. I do not see this new Vatican statement as an innovation or an insult. I see it as a clarification and a helpful demarcation of the issues at stake.

I appreciate the Roman Catholic Church's candor on this issue, and I believe that Evangelical Christians, with equal respect and clarity, should respond in kind. This is a time to be respectfully candid — not a time to be offended.

Imagine that, we were able to have a religious dispute in the West without beheading someone.  Lucky for you, Coffeespy HQ is here to remind you it could ALWAYS be worse:

I don't mean to play favorites, but whoever brought that cake made out of diamonds in the lower right hand corner is the winner in my book.