Eagleton unhinged
Thank God for Tim Worstall. The excellent British blogger lays into Terry Eagleton, professor of cultural theory at Manchester University, who used the platform of the Guardian today to launch a childishly offensive attack on the late pontiff in an article titled "The Pope has blood on his hands". As Tim notes in his post, Eagleton "decides to violate one of the little cultural rules with which we burden our society, that one does not speak ill of the dead in that small period between their death and their burial. Not too much of a surprise that an avowed Marxist would rip into one who did so much during the downfall of that evil system of governance of course. His case would make a little more sense if he actually knew anything about the Catholic Church, rather than the knee jerk rubbish he spouts."
It's a bit rich of Eagleton to call the late Pope a killer when, as Norm noted on 26 January, the red prof used the pages of the Guardian of British liberalism to excuse the evil deeds of suicide murderers. Eagleton's condition would appear to be untreatable, but let us hope and pray that he bears his affliction with more grace than he displayed today. Pope John Paul II should serve as his model in these matters.
