{"id":5990,"date":"2016-11-30T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/30\/semper-fidel\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:46:36","slug":"semper-fidel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/30\/semper-fidel\/","title":{"rendered":"Semper Fidel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Royal<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It's not hard to understand why many secular people in the West were fascinated by a figure like Fidel Castro. Where religion retreats, political faiths tend to advance to fill the absence of meaning, purpose, authority (yes, people crave that, too). Add a bold, charismatic leader willing to fight \u2013 even die \u2013 for something? It was the Iliad<\/em>, Robin Hood<\/em>, Star Wars<\/em>, in hip scraggly beards, jungle fatigues, defiantly smoking Cuban cigars.<\/span><\/p>\n

But why many religious<\/em> people over decades were taken with the now departed m\u00e1ximo lider<\/em> is harder to grasp. Vaticanist Sandro Magister has wittily observed<\/a>: Pope Francis cried at his passing, Patriarch Kirill wept, but among those close to the situation \u2013 the Cuban bishops \u2013 it\u2019s dry eyes all around.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

Read the rest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert Royal: It's not hard to understand why many secular people in the West were fascinated by a figure like Fidel Castro. Where religion retreats, political faiths tend to advance to fill the absence of meaning, purpose, authority (yes, people crave that, too). Add a bold, charismatic leader willing to fight \u2013 even die \u2013 … Continue reading “Semper Fidel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}