Thursday, December 12, 2013

Travis Gettys — Noam Chomsky: U.S. used to have people killed for practicing what Pope Francis preaches (via Raw Story )

Noam Chomsky: U.S. used to have people killed for practicing what Pope Francis preaches (via Raw Story )
The United States waged a decades-long war against Catholics who practiced the teachings that got Pope Francis named as Time magazine’s person of the year, said political philosopher Noam Chomsky. He said that the 1962 Vatican II conference had restored…


1 comment:

David said...

Chomsky said. “If we had a free press that’s the way they’d present it.”

I've never been able to tell for certain if Chomsky is essentially humorless, or just has a really, really dry sense of humor. Of course, it's no cinch that if the press was "freer" they'd be a whole lot smarter, more compassionate, more honest, competent, etc.