Tutu? Tsk-tsk
President Reagan, when asked how an unpleasant meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu had gone, replied, "Tutu? So-so."
As this Newsweek article clearly indicates, as a thinker and a moral theologian,Tutu is considerably less than so-so.
Let me see if I get this right: Presidents Bush and Reagan are bad because they saw things in terms of good and bad, whereas people like Tutu, who claim not to see things in terms of good and bad, are good, because they don't see good and bad the way the bad people who believe that things are good and bad do. And that's good, because that would be bad.
It's pretty hard to take this guy seriously, I'm afraid. His attempt to draw parallels between South Africa under apartheid and the present policies of the United States would be frightening, were it not so transparently ridiculous. And one would think that somewhere along the line, Tutu might have noticed that the people of Iraq are probably better off without Saddam Hussein than they were with him!
All in all, a fine piece of muddled thinking by a politician in a clerical collar who seems to think that the Faith is a smorgasbord of moral choices from which one can choose as one pleases. We have enough of those in this country, thank you very much. We don't have to import them from Africa.
As this Newsweek article clearly indicates, as a thinker and a moral theologian,Tutu is considerably less than so-so.
Let me see if I get this right: Presidents Bush and Reagan are bad because they saw things in terms of good and bad, whereas people like Tutu, who claim not to see things in terms of good and bad, are good, because they don't see good and bad the way the bad people who believe that things are good and bad do. And that's good, because that would be bad.
It's pretty hard to take this guy seriously, I'm afraid. His attempt to draw parallels between South Africa under apartheid and the present policies of the United States would be frightening, were it not so transparently ridiculous. And one would think that somewhere along the line, Tutu might have noticed that the people of Iraq are probably better off without Saddam Hussein than they were with him!
All in all, a fine piece of muddled thinking by a politician in a clerical collar who seems to think that the Faith is a smorgasbord of moral choices from which one can choose as one pleases. We have enough of those in this country, thank you very much. We don't have to import them from Africa.
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