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The pope strikes me more as a man of the world looking for the approval of man more than God.
But then again catholicism is a pagan religion anyhow.
You're a grown adult and proud of believing in a fairy tale?
How do you know?
Calling for Bin Laden's death isn't hate speech though. Hate speech is directed towards a group of identified or protected people. So if you replaced Bin Laden, with all Muslims that would be hate speech.
The Pope stressed that there was no justification for the killing of 17 people in three separate incidents
Oh shutup troll.
Thats what i don't get with these big Franchise belief systems and their hierarchies. If you are a person given free will, and you believe in god, wouldnt that relationship have to be personal one?
What gives this pope, or any body else the authority to decide how to interpret the word of god? (The word of god as it is written by men like him).
If he could fly or moonwalk on water or dunk a twelve foot net from a single drop step. Or heal shit or do something no other human can, then maybe I'd be inclined to dictate how to live my life in this vast and mysterious existence.
But all I see is some old dude in dress who doesnt have sex, telling me how who I should fuck. I see a guy who doesnt have a real job. I see his buddies doing the exact same thing all the way down a hierarchy that is suppose be the shepard of the flock. The shepard tho, seems to get caught with his dick in some poor lamb every once in a while. This has been going on forever. I can't see how people can be so domesticated on such level.
My own family considers me a semi-pariah for speaking up on the fact that both Sand Religions were the religions that colonized and enslaved our ancestors. And my mom, a good strong woman of impeccable character, who put six children on her back and gave us the skills to thrive by thinking for ourselves, instilling work ethic, and define our sense of shame and honor through the wisdom life affirming acts- asks me to stop ruining Christmas (again) then quietly prays to the favored god of pedophiles and slavers who thought our ancestors as little more than sub-human cattle, that I might someday stop ruining a pillaged and repackaged Pagan holiday and subjugate myself before his will, (as it is interpreted by old men with soft hand and pot bellies who live in a world of abstraction and ritual)
With all due respect, Yes you can & it's called Jihad, Mr. Francis.
It would be nice if Catholics had a Pope with some actual moral courage. This man prayed in Mosque in Istambul that was built out of the Hagia Sophia Cathedral from before Muslims sacked Constantinople(you know the...inner struggle).
It's the truth tho
You're just parroting nonsense, like you do in 99 percent of your posts. You are the worst poster in the War Room.
Well, you're certainly in the running for most bitter lol. Sorry but i just dont have a lot of reverence for your pope or the religion he represents because it has a lot of pagan aspects to it.
Just my opinion and nothing you should get bent out if shape about.
He's lost at this point.Well, you're certainly in the running for most bitter lol. Sorry but i just dont have a lot of reverence for your pope or the religion he represents because it has a lot of pagan aspects to it.
Just my opinion and nothing you should get bent out if shape about.
The pope strikes me more as a man of the world looking for the approval of man more than God.
But then again catholicism is a pagan religion anyhow.
Fine, but I still don't think that should be banned.
Mostly because speech is directly tied to thoughts and beliefs, and having freedom of thought is the essential right of humans. Acts are what need to be limited. You can express the beliefs that Muslims or Jews or whoever should be exterminated all you want, but actually acting up on it (plotting a massacre, for example) is what's truly harmful.
The interesting thing is that the US allows things like Holocaust denial and calls for ethnic cleansing (white nationalist literature is filled with this) to be freely published, yet they stay marginalized. No one takes them seriously.
In Europe, where these things will get you in jail, far-right groups are much more prevalent. So limiting freedom of speech doesn't even accomplish its supposed main objective: keeping dangerous/violent ideas from spreading.