Post of the Day — Anchoress on the Pope, the President, and 1981

As the press stokes the Muslim fires, a suggestion that one should “Be careful what you wish for” is indeed timely:

….. what has struck me today is this talk of Benedict being assassinated in Turkey. There is a best-selling book predicting it, and it is apparently the big topic of conversation in certain chat rooms.

I can’t remember a time when the assassination of presidents and popes was so openly discussed by so many, and so clearly considered a desirable event by people who have lost their moral compasses.

All I can say to these folks is: be careful what you wish for.

In March of 1981 an attempt was made on the life of Ronald Reagan. Only a few months later, in May of ‘81, an attempt was made on the life of Pope John Paul II. Payback was a bitch.

Even though the attempt on Reagan’s life was born from a sick celebrity-obsession (quite unlike the attempt on John Paul’s life, which was political), those two very hated men, once recovered, ended up being enormously effective tools in the beating back of an evil ideology whose tentacles were vastly flung. Who knows if those two seemingly unrelated assasssination attempts, and the fortitude and courage with which the targets endured them, didn’t create a cosmic shift of sorts.

I remember. I would say they created quite the “cosmic shift.”