Bravo, splendid, Mr. Dinh. People should know the Vietnamese kicked Genghis Khan’s ass too.

That scene in Apocalypse Now! in which the French settlers explain since they settled and created the plantation, the land is theirs, they are happy to work with whoever is in charge… Elicits sympathy. OK, but whose water did you divert to create your plantation? Not mentioned. Important point.

It will be interesting to see how the Donald works with them. I say Linh Dinh as ambassador to Vietnam. Make American Great Again.

John

Liberace?

Hey Linh,

Thanks for your kind reply… maybe we can get a local school to fork over a stipend o get you here for a talk and book-signing…etc… but to reply for now…

1. Yes. like all other people, popes can be hypocrites too… they just run bigger risks with Jesus on this rap..

2. Whether I am convinced of it or not, orthodoxy flows whence it flows… but explicitly not from the mouth of one man; it’s complicated, but orthodoxy is within very narrows bounds, difficult to establish, and only in concert with the whole church. But to answer indirectly, yes, I assent to Church orthodoxy.

3. As to Galileo, this is protestant diversion. Galileo was teaching, as the pope’s astronomer, the earth circled the sun in a perfect circle, something Bellarmine knew not not be true, and Keplar upon which surely had cautioned Galileo (not to mention Keplar was never cautioned not to teach heliocentrism, which was a well known fact at the time. The Jesuits were teaching it in China.) As others noted, Galileo got snarky, so he was sent to his room, inasmuch as he lived in the Vatican and worked for the pope. But the “anti-science catholicism” libel is the best story protestants have going for them, so it has gained currency.

BTW. Easter in Saigon in 2010 was much like you described…

Call me if you are otherwise in Tacoma and we can get in a bar fight at The Swiss some time… you can show me some gung fu moves…

John Spiers

Stand-ins for God, they can’t say or do anything wrong, one must remember.

Ahem… Mr. Linh, popes are infallible only in faith and morals, the idea they are perfect is a heresy long rejected… that popes are sinners like any other is not disputed.

On the other hand, when you coming to visit Tacoma?

John Spiers

The Navy was on maneuvers below. When pressed, the Navy stated “We launched no missile.” Remember about that time, the Kursk, the Russian submarine, “sank itself”? If we did not launch the Navy missile, who did? The super secret may be a 3rd actor telling the superpowers to play nice, your command and control systems have been hacked. That would have to be kept secret from us, or we might go all pacifist. Also, it helps explain why now we only attack the undefended, “who cares?” targets

Indeed, was he not the lead on the smearing of MLKing? And was his career on government TV at astonishing rates not the payoff? Rather hypocritical for a baptist preacher/state corporation welfare empress to be scolding the wealthy for the system he adores.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/moyers-johnson-and-king/article/824306