The core message wasn't about men with hope but to portray them as immature and lost.
Obviously the African priest had to be exempt from that, as they wouldn't fit the lost-boy (presumably western) demographic the author is trying to belittle.
There's no attempt at understanding. It's all about padding the author's portfolio to be part of the club. As such, the article serves to signal to the author's preferred peer group that he gets it.
The wise, non-western, foreign cleric words of wisdom (probably isolated from context) is a rhetorical flourish so the peers he wants to associate with can recognize him as an ally. Too bad the priest was male, but sometimes you gotta work with what you got.
The core message wasn't about men with hope but to portray them as immature and lost.
Obviously the African priest had to be exempt from that, as they wouldn't fit the lost-boy (presumably western) demographic the author is trying to belittle.
There's no attempt at understanding. It's all about padding the author's portfolio to be part of the club.
As such, the article serves to signal to the author's preferred peer group that he gets it.
The wise, non-western, foreign cleric words of wisdom (probably isolated from context) is a rhetorical flourish so the peers he wants to associate with can recognize him as an ally. Too bad the priest was male, but sometimes you gotta work with what you got.