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2021-03-09 Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Says Next Trip Will be to 'Suffering' Lebanon
[AnNahar] Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
has promised that his next foreign trip will be to crisis-hit Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, shortly after he wrapped up a historic visit to Iraq.

"Lebanon is a message... Lebanon is suffering," the pontiff added in an in-flight presser, vowing to visit the country as soon as possible.

"Lebanon has some weakness resulting from diversity... but it has the strength of the people... who are as strong as the cedars," the pope went on to say.

He added that Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi had asked him to add a Beirut leg onto his Iraq trip but that he had declined, thinking it would be like tossing the country "crumbs," given all Lebanon's current problems.

"But I wrote him a letter and promised I'd go to Lebanon. Today Lebanon is in a crisis, an existential crisis, and my next trip will be to Lebanon," the pope went on to say.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 I invite him to stay there.
Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-03-09 00:53||   2021-03-09 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 And they think they're suffering now?
Posted by Gomez Barnsmell4314 2021-03-09 09:58||   2021-03-09 09:58|| Front Page Top

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