(January 15, 2015 at 3:21 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: So many people, including secularists praise Pope Francis for being "reasonable" and in touch with the times.
And then we get this:
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-says-cannot-i...45221.html
Quote:But the 78-year-old pontiff also said "each religion has its dignity" and "there are limits".
"You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people's faith, you cannot mock it," the pontiff said.
"Freedom of speech is a right and a duty that must be displayed without offending."
This from the leader of the organization who bandied about words such as blasphemer, heretic, spawn of Satan and who knows what else over the centuries. Guess what jackass, we'll continue to insult your worldwide criminal enterprise any time we wish.
I don't think this latest Papal utterance is going to help him on the PR front.
Why are the religious so afraid of mockery and verbal insults? Can't their god do something about it? I'm guessing they don't like it because it is working to make them look like fools.
The Pope exchanges 'quiet diplomacy' for flat out support for extremism. Well at least its a change in the Roman Catholic Church's previous stance of no action in relation to paedophile priests and Nazi death camps.
A new low even for an organisation already rotten through to the core, with fetid priests and corpulent cardinals who are so far removed from reality it's farcical.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
