A Mildly Disturbing Comment

Today (or yesterday) I was listening to some talking heads discuss the tag-team relationship between President Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher.

I was particularly disturbed by the comment that the Pope's fight was spiritually influenced and Reagan's was secularly influenced. This is not correct.

Note from Paul Kengor's book GOD and Ronald Reagan:

On June 7, 1982, the two men sat face-to-face for the first time. They discussed the assassination attempts, as well as their shared sense of special purpose. In a later cover story for Time magazine, Carl Bernstein reported that both the Pope and Reagan believed that God had saved them for a chosen mission--that mission, the article implied, was the defeat of communism in the Soviet bloc.

Page 210 GOD and Ronald Reagan by Paul Kengor, First Edition Copyright 2004 age 210 Published by ReganBooks

Ronald Reagan took the defeat of Communism as a spiritual imperative, not a secular one.