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That's different than formally choosing sides.

Then you assume a moral equivalence between the sides. Which is morally obtuse.

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What would be more effective than public statements which may be viewed as "political," the Vatican would be better serve the Church by establishing cordial relations and assistance to the Coptic Church(es).

Establishing aid headquarters would build effective Christian lay leadership which can become a political partner in the (hopefully) new coalition government.

Encouraging Christians through media, such as radio and satellite television will increase hope and morale. Is there a better time than now to broadcast pericopes from Revelation...scripture about hope in time of persecution?


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Then you assume a moral equivalence between the sides. Which is morally obtuse.

I detailed, clearly I thought, why "choosing sides" by the Church is a bad policy. Nowhere in that, implicit or explicit, was a claim that either hypothetical side was morally equivalent to the other. It's simply not a role that Christ charged with the Church, and His life demonstrated that it was not His interest. Not to mention all of the negative consequences I outlined.

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Not choosing sides is the same as saying both sides are the same. Are you saying that the Allies, for all their faults, were morally indistinguishable from the Nazis? Are you saying that the capitalist West, for all its faults, was interchangeable with the communist East? That is the corner into which your logic will paint you.

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No, I'm not saying that at all.

Why didn't Christ call for the overthrow of the Roman Empire and the establishment of a just and righteous Earthly kingdom? My logic is the same as His, unless you can distinguish the two somehow.

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