Ass-hat Pontiff

Mouthy guy in funny hat still pissed off with secularists

Benedict said the West was witnessing "a new wave of Enlightenment and secularism, in which only that which can be tested and calculated is considered rationally valid, and in which individual freedom is erected as a fundamental value to which everything else is subordinated.

Yeah, how terrible it is that humanity is enlightened. Oh, the horror of knowledge! (Actually, it probably is pretty scary to a system predicated on ignorance and superstition).

So I suppose Joey Ratz would like those things which are irrational (like, say, dogmatic belief in a literal Bible?) to be considered rationally valid. Yeah, that ought to work. Let's just redefine rationality and render the concept completely meaningless.

And he, apparently, also prefers that there be no individual freedom. Given the structure of Catholicism, I guess that makes sense.

This mean Western culture "is unable to undertake a real dialogue with other cultures in which the religious dimension is strongly present.

For instance? Americans and Iraqis; both being cultures in which "the religious dimension is strongly present". Yes, we can see how famously they're getting along. Or, how about Israel and Palestine? Another good example of two cultures's steeped in religion undertaking real dialogue. Do people seriously find this guy infallible and worthy of reverence? He's a damned moron.