A Weak Spot

Silly Bill didn’t like too much cold; the block of ice he stood on gave him a chill; neither did a kettle of boiling water give him comfort. In fact it scalded his feet till the knees. Later he had his one foot in the kettle and the other on a block of ice. He thought of a middle ground and exclaimed, “Law of averages ought to work.”
But it didn’t.
European Union has to consider Turkey’s admission into their Parliament at Brussels. Turkey reminds me of Silly Bill’s attempt to find a comfort zone. The country by a Constitution embraces a secular concept but many evidences we have been having lately ought to warn us how fragile it is. The country has become a testing ground for the Islamic fundamentalists to gain a foothold into Europe. Scandinavian countries, Germany, The Netherlands and Spain have sufficient radicals and may prove, if Turkey chooses the way of the Mullahs, to be troublemakers.
A domino effect is not to be laughed off.
Pope Benedictus XVI is due for a visit to Turkey. He hopes thereby to make peace and also strengthen his sagging authority in the way the West has distanced itself from the Church. Almost two millenniuum the Church had time to clean up her act. She didn’t. Naively She is trying to drum up support from the unlikeliest quarters for Religion, to be the lynchpin for solving all the evils present today. Both Caliphate and Papacy are as dead as Dodo. Let us leave fools from meddling in our struggle for solving some real issues that we face today.
( We wrestle with the giant Pharmaceutical conglomorates to provide affordable antiretroviral drugs for fighting AIDS and other deadly diseases. What does the See of Vatican says? Something as follows,“ The Church forbids the use of condoms: for it is devil’s practice.” How much more out of touch with reality can ever the Church get?)
benny