Comments on: Gross Internal Flab Tablets

By: John Edwards

John Edwards — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:48:52 +0000

Doug! I like your website a lot! I wish I could manage to be as creative and less technophone to make my own. Interested to hear your views on the Church in Chile. It is one of the most divisive regions, especially with liberation theology and all that. But don’t be fooled by da vinci code hype etc about Opus Dei. I think it must be the most misrepresented organisation ever. Its true that many members come from professional backgrounds, but this is not always true. For example, a Phillipino cleaner I met in Brussels was a member. Also, I cannot see why it is secretive; in Brussels they organised many open events. They certainly should not be compared to masonic traditions, and is in fact the antithesis regarding family values and communitarian philiosophies. I’m not a member of Opus but it annoys me when they are used to beat the Church in general, especially by the press.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Thu, 18 May 2006 02:31:02 +0000

I sit corrected… Thank you Dave for the information about the religious or non-religious make-up of the Chilean Cabinet. It went as follows:
“Bachelet is a self-declared atheist - not a catholic as you suggest - but through her father has some connections with the Masons.
In her cabinet there are 8 self-declared catholics, 3 self-declared jews, 8 self-declared atheist/agnostic, and one who is ’sin religion’. Don’t ask me how that’s different to being atheist/agnostic. There was an interested article a couple of months ago in el mercuiro on a sunday about the govt.
relationship with various religious groups. For my mind, the religious affairs office is away of limiting in particular the catholic church’s perceived role as a player in Chilean politics, and also to neatly provide the govt with an excuse when people claim it doesn’t work with churches.”