(August 15, 2018 at 9:30 pm)Succubus Wrote: What's with all this surprise and alarm, where have you people been these last 40 years?
Meanwhile...
The Irish state will pay for security and other logistical costs during the visit, which Irish broadcaster RTÉ suggested would cost 20m euro (£17.6m) in total.
No one is going to jail.
This is the oldest, richest, most powerful, most corrupt, non productive industry the world has ever seen.
And yet it prevails. It prevails because the foul pox that is Christianity is burned into the human psyche. We will never be rid of it.
Yeah there are two prices
Quote:The event will be paid for by fundraising and four national church collections, with officials saying 5m euro (£4.4m) has already been raised in collections.
The Irish state will pay for security and other logistical costs during the visit, which Irish broadcaster RTÉ suggested would cost 20m euro (£17.6m) in total.
There is price of 5m euro for the event and then for security and other logistical costs. So that 5m euro for the "event" means 5m euro for the Pope personally.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
