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The Pope's Predicament  [message #60282] Sun, 20 December 2009 09:05 Go to next message
yusime is currently offline  yusime

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http://www.counterpunch.org/brauchli02182009.html

Pretty typical of the "leader" of the catholic church can't quite decide who he is suppose to condemn and who he should support.



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Re: The Pope's Predicament  [message #60284 is a reply to message #60282] Sun, 20 December 2009 09:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The Pope is the protector of Paedophiles worldwide. The Roman Catholic Church and its appalling leadership have done much to encourage and harbour paedophilic priests and nuns over the decades, probably centuries.

The current enormous scandal in Ireland is but a small part of this. The Church of Ireland is to be totally reorganised, apparently, as a direct result of the major industrial scale production line abuse of girls and boys by priests and nun, both physical and sexual.

And the solution was to move the abusers to new parishes with fresh meat to abuse.

As Chief Executive Officer of that church The Pope bears 100% of the blame.



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Re: The Pope's Predicament  [message #60287 is a reply to message #60284] Sun, 20 December 2009 11:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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timmy wrote:

As Chief Executive Officer of that church The Pope bears 100% of the blame.

The Bishop of Rome is not the church's CEO; he is "God's vicar on Earth" - at least in the eyes of believers. As an onlooker (with a somewhat prejudiced eye) I can't help asking myself how God could have made such a whopping miscalculation.

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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
Re: The Pope's Predicament  [message #60291 is a reply to message #60287] Sun, 20 December 2009 12:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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God is, of course, Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Pope is thus the CEO.

It seems to me that they could do with a couple of non executive directors to keep them on track, at a huge salary, naturally, plus expenses.

I volunteer.



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Re: The Pope's Predicament  [message #60320 is a reply to message #60287] Mon, 21 December 2009 11:35 Go to previous message
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Can't have miscalculated: he's omniscient and omnipotent and as the creator he knows all consequences beforehand.

No, JFR, you haven't plumbed the enormity of it. He did it ON PURPOSE.

What's the point of having all the homophobes if you don't go on creating gay people.

You human life forms are NO FUN!

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