Normally, I don’t go off on the Pope, since I do have a modicum of respect for the Church I abandoned more than 40 years ago. Also, since I’ve frequently battled with my hardened fundie brother on this, as when he’s used the Pope as “target practice” on his blog for no other reason than to show he's an equal opportunity religious bigot.
However, when the Pope dissed and disrespected secularists and atheists on his visit to Britain, the matter became personal, and all real atheists have had to mount a call to arms. This, for no other reason than to correct the insipid and historically inaccurate bullshit that the former head of the Inquisition (now called the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”) reeled off without a hint of shame or irony. Indeed, at more than one point he evinced a kind of hyper “Pastor Mike”: just as ignorant, just as clueless, and every bit as bigoted as Pastor Mikey against all those who don’t believe as he does.
For those who missed it, the Pope compared atheists to the Nazis and to Hitler, asserting that Britain had had to conquer a foe given to “the eradication of God”. In fact, the Nazis weren’t atheists and neither was Hitler. As historian on the Nazi era, Robert Payne notes (The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, 1973, Praeger Publishers, p. 15):
“Adolf Hitler's birth certificate records that he was born at six o'clock in the evening on April 20, 1889, and goes on to record that two days later, at a quarter past three in the afternoon, in the presence of Father Ignaz Probst, the boy was baptized in the local Catholic Church”
As is known from standard Roman Catholic doctrine, once one is baptized a Catholic, he or she technically remains a Catholic unless one rejects certain mandated Church teachings (the Virgin birth, Immaculate conception, Ascension, Trinity etc.) in which case he or she has implemented a de facto self-excommunication. Hitler never did this. So far as we know, he remained a nominal Catholic at least, until he died.
As masses of protestors congeal in London for an anti-pope rally and march, Richard Dawkins has come out and correctly called the Pope an enemy of mankind(not least because of his opposition to condoms and hence welcoming mass deaths from HIV/AIDS). But let’s not forget he’s only one particle in the putrescence that is the Catholic Church. And lest we forget there is more than ample historical evidence collected to show how the Vatican assisted notorious SS and Nazis to escape along the infamous “ratlines” to South America. ( See: Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis and The Swiss Banks, St. Martins Press, 1996, p. 288.)
Again, as in the case of the Church sex abuse scandals (which this troll helped to sweep under the rug) we have a case of posturing and preaching a morality he and his Church don't have a clue of practicing themselves. Look at the operations of the Vatican Bank, and Paul Marcinkus ("God's Banker"). Look at the killing of Pope John Paul I (See David Yallop’s ‘In God’s Name’) . Look at Intermarium and its assisting Nazi war criminals and SS to get away along "rat lines" to South America. The Vatican insults our intellect by asserting these are all the "crimes of individuals", oblivious to the fact that they are directed and driven by irrational, indefensible and malignant doctrines built into the core of the Catholic religion.
Thus, the need to protect such malignant doctrines as the prohibition of artificial birth control may have been one key reason a Vatican cabal found it necessary to take out the first John Paul, who had planned to rescind the Magisterium birth control ruling of Pope Paul VI. (The other key motivation, as Yallop notes, is that John Paul I planned an investigation into the Vatican Bank and its money networks)
The Pope can yap and squawk all he wants to about “atheists” or secularism, but the real threats are the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Those who don the robes of piety and purity yet are really whitened sepulchres. To read about the anti-pope protests in London, go to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/18/pope-benedict-xvi-protest
However, when the Pope dissed and disrespected secularists and atheists on his visit to Britain, the matter became personal, and all real atheists have had to mount a call to arms. This, for no other reason than to correct the insipid and historically inaccurate bullshit that the former head of the Inquisition (now called the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”) reeled off without a hint of shame or irony. Indeed, at more than one point he evinced a kind of hyper “Pastor Mike”: just as ignorant, just as clueless, and every bit as bigoted as Pastor Mikey against all those who don’t believe as he does.
For those who missed it, the Pope compared atheists to the Nazis and to Hitler, asserting that Britain had had to conquer a foe given to “the eradication of God”. In fact, the Nazis weren’t atheists and neither was Hitler. As historian on the Nazi era, Robert Payne notes (The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, 1973, Praeger Publishers, p. 15):
“Adolf Hitler's birth certificate records that he was born at six o'clock in the evening on April 20, 1889, and goes on to record that two days later, at a quarter past three in the afternoon, in the presence of Father Ignaz Probst, the boy was baptized in the local Catholic Church”
As is known from standard Roman Catholic doctrine, once one is baptized a Catholic, he or she technically remains a Catholic unless one rejects certain mandated Church teachings (the Virgin birth, Immaculate conception, Ascension, Trinity etc.) in which case he or she has implemented a de facto self-excommunication. Hitler never did this. So far as we know, he remained a nominal Catholic at least, until he died.
As masses of protestors congeal in London for an anti-pope rally and march, Richard Dawkins has come out and correctly called the Pope an enemy of mankind(not least because of his opposition to condoms and hence welcoming mass deaths from HIV/AIDS). But let’s not forget he’s only one particle in the putrescence that is the Catholic Church. And lest we forget there is more than ample historical evidence collected to show how the Vatican assisted notorious SS and Nazis to escape along the infamous “ratlines” to South America. ( See: Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis and The Swiss Banks, St. Martins Press, 1996, p. 288.)
Again, as in the case of the Church sex abuse scandals (which this troll helped to sweep under the rug) we have a case of posturing and preaching a morality he and his Church don't have a clue of practicing themselves. Look at the operations of the Vatican Bank, and Paul Marcinkus ("God's Banker"). Look at the killing of Pope John Paul I (See David Yallop’s ‘In God’s Name’) . Look at Intermarium and its assisting Nazi war criminals and SS to get away along "rat lines" to South America. The Vatican insults our intellect by asserting these are all the "crimes of individuals", oblivious to the fact that they are directed and driven by irrational, indefensible and malignant doctrines built into the core of the Catholic religion.
Thus, the need to protect such malignant doctrines as the prohibition of artificial birth control may have been one key reason a Vatican cabal found it necessary to take out the first John Paul, who had planned to rescind the Magisterium birth control ruling of Pope Paul VI. (The other key motivation, as Yallop notes, is that John Paul I planned an investigation into the Vatican Bank and its money networks)
The Pope can yap and squawk all he wants to about “atheists” or secularism, but the real threats are the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Those who don the robes of piety and purity yet are really whitened sepulchres. To read about the anti-pope protests in London, go to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/18/pope-benedict-xvi-protest
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Very disturbing photos there, not one but two and I'll bet you have even more in stock!
If the pope is going to lambaste atheists, he better be careful about what they dig up on him and hnis church! To me, he has no room to talk at all about morals! Any more than Christine, the 'witch', O'donnell!
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