(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.
Piety, by Brian37. (AKA, Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Oh grand Phallus
You live
In a palace
Wearing your phony crown
But atoms and quarks
Defy your remarks
For in the end
We lose all sound
The sun will expand
Making coal of the land
And with it too
The myth you spew
Impressed not the least
With your strut
Impoverished player
Reality guts
In gaps you fill
With magical spells
Wane through generations
Morphing into newer fables
Beseeching is reason
You can't hold hostage
Free from your shackles
My mind grasps knowledge
Transparent friends
Fall prey to truth
Your god is not needed
And neither are you
(end)
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