Pope-age : acts of kowtowing

[hellkat]

I am SO fucked off with the Pope.

Whilst arguing various unreligious topics in Siggi's god-slot this evening, I'd still like to take time out to take a pot shot at the fact that the Pope has felt it necessary to apologise to Muslims.

Fuck that.
He's the Pope.
And he's supposed to be in-fucking-fallible.

He doesn't have to apologise to no cunt.
Cos he IS the Pope.
Silly old fucker: he's allowed to criticise people and take NO NOTICE WHATSOEVER of twattishness like this

FFS, I can't believe this

This is not a rant against muslims or Islam, its just a rant that PC-stupidity has brought the world to this.


hellkat
occasionally and not very traditionally Catholic
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[Mister James]

I'm behind you on this one. I'm not catholic - although I was baptised one - but I've always been a bit of a fan of the Pope as an idea - they remind me of the queen, an acceptable and reasonable face of an archaic institution.

It disgusts me that we must constantly tread lightly around Muslims, while ridiculing our own institutions quite happily.

Islam allows no dissent, no questioning, no reason, no logic - nothing but obedience and deference that is certainly not due to it.

It is equally upsetting that the media always jumps on the bandwagon, giving huge coverage to the good ol' Arab rent-a-mobs who always manage to sport well-written English signs. It grieves me to see my license fee being spent to bolster world wide Islamic nutterism.
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[colin1]

i think his remarks were taken out of context

very few people have listened to or read the whole speech

there was a radio phoneiin thing on radio4 and even the presenter admitted he hadnt read or heard the actual speech, but a guy who had rang in.

Basically the pope quoted someone who had suffered at the hands of muslims, and then said this was a bad view point and he didnt agree with it. The press dont mention this. The pope was doing a lecture to academics and his theme was faith without reason can lead to misunderstandings and violence, and that all religious people should try to be more moderate than radical, or extreme.

However he was a bit daft to use a quote with views which he himself described as horrifying, without it occurring to him that some people might think he was quoting because he agreed with it.

He comes from the world of academic style philosopher/theologians and so isnt very aware when it comes to media spin, PR etc On how things can be taken the wrong way.

Basically, if you say anything complicated on a contentious issue, someone will manage to simplify it so they can try to understand what you said. They will then get the wrong end of the stick and say that you said something that you didnt.

This is why politicans do sound bites, with everyone using the same sound bite so there dont appear to be any differences between viewpoints, and things cant get taken the wrong way.

I think he has appologised for any offence caused, rather than appologised for what he said, as he does not believe what he said was insulting, only the way it has been reported made it sound insulting.
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[angryjonny]

The Pope is the leader of a massive institution that educates millions if not billions of people around the world that it is a sin to use a condom. Thousands and thousands of people are now HIV positive as a direct result of the misteachings by a religion of which this man is the figurehead.

There's not much he could do to sink a lot lower in my opinion.

[pwntifex]

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Your friendly neighbourhood pope/AA gunner.
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[Mister James]

Excellent - could come in useful when we finally drop all this pretending and go toe to toe with the Islamics
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[Harold_Shand]

Only buy services and products from White British people.

We are at war. If we look after ourselves, as we are still the majority, we can economically strangle them. Stop giving these fuckers your money and it will go towards a happy outcome of this horrible mess our poor Island is in.

Bulldogs have teeth.
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[hellkat]

[Mister James]

[killa]