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2015-01-15 Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Slams 'Deviant Forms of Religion' after Paris Attacks
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Posted by Fred 2015-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 I enthusiastically support his statement, but I have to wonder how much thought went into the choice of words.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-15 01:42||   2015-01-15 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm waiting for the condemnation of the Inquisition.
Posted by ed in texas 2015-01-15 07:28||   2015-01-15 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Pope, that's what Islam is!

It is explicitly the enslavement (aka submission) of all mankind to a culture of rejection leading directly to violence and death.

Why oh why can't these guys (western leadership) get this??
Posted by AlanC 2015-01-15 07:40||   2015-01-15 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually the "Protestant inquistion" in England killed far more people than the Spanish one. Forgot about witch hunting: in three centuries the Spanish inquisition killed three thousand people between witches, protestants and people who were supposedly Christians but were practising Judaism (actually this was not punished woith capital punishment. What was punished with death was for supposed Christian being found practizing Judaism, recanting of the "sin" of this "sin", returning to Christianity and being found a Qsecond time ptractizing Judaism). Protestant Europe killed fourty thousand witches (plus a number of papists) in less than 50 years. It was much, much, much better to fall into the dispassionate hands of an inquisitor, hands who were severely restrained by Inquistion's legalistic requirements than in the hands of a bunch of terrified peasnts who had just lost a couple of cows.

So, spare us your feelings of superiority.
Posted by JFM 2015-01-15 08:32||   2015-01-15 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-01-15 08:44||   2015-01-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression.

Points to ponder:

The same Sharia that mandates the death penalty for the secular and laicist Charlie Hebdo cartoonists mandates the death penalty for religious conversion from Islam to Roman Catholicism.

Christians sometimes fall to theocratic temptation, trying to play the totalitarian shark's remora.

Leftist Christians collaborated with communist regimes. 'German Christians' collaborated with the Nazis. Now some Christians are tempted to collaborate with theocratic Islam.

The late Christopher Hitchens had some words for these people:
"These people are saying the grandfather (Kurt Westergaard) and granddaughter were the authors of their own attempted assassinations. These are some of the same people who say that if I don't believe in God I can't know what morality is. They've just dissolved morality completely into relativism by saying actually, occasionally, carving up grandfathers and granddaughters with an axe on New Year's Eve can be okay if it's done to protect the reputation of a seventh century Arabian man who heard voices."
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-15 10:18||   2015-01-15 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmmm...I believe the Catholics and Protestants have pretty much buried the swords they held at each others throats [War of Religion/Thirty Years War/et al] for a couple hundred years. The fratricide between Sunni and Shiite seems to be rather active at the moment. Now about 'deviant forms of religion'...
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-15 11:28||   2015-01-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression.

Who's gonna set the limits? The Pope? The Ayatollah? The King of the Soddies?

The pope just lost me.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-15 16:30||   2015-01-15 16:30|| Front Page Top

#9 If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,"

So if you tell the Pope his mum's a whore, he will give you a poke? I would kinda sorta think this was exactly what Jesus was talking about with that "turn the other cheek" stuff. And what if (no offense) his mum *is* a whore? Not impressed.
Posted by SteveS 2015-01-15 17:44||   2015-01-15 17:44|| Front Page Top

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