The pope's apology, and religious fervor

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Pope Benedict has apologized for the controversy surrounding his comments on Islam, which commentator Joe Loconte says proves that it's possible to make the right point in the wrong way. A more generous approach to the issue of religious freedom, he says, is to describe how both Islam and Christianity have succumbed to irrationality.

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