So much for "Render Unto Caesar"

[Minimalist]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2012122...HTJ03.html

There's a little-known open secret in the Vatican gardens, a few paces behind St. Peter's Basilica and tucked inside the Vatican's old train station: a sprawling, three-story tax-free department store that rivals any airport duty free or military PX, stocking everything from Church's custom grade shoes ((EURO)483 a pair) to Baume et Mercier watches (ladies (EURO)1,585, men's Capeland (EURO)5,000).

There's a hitch, however. It's not open to the public, only to Vatican citizens, employees and their dependents, diplomats accredited to the Holy See and (unofficially) their lucky friends who, after stocking up on holiday must-haves, proceed to the checkout with their Vatican connection and the ID card that entitles them to shop there.

Can't blame them for distancing themselves from the supposed 'jesus' holy horseshit. Terribly impractical doctrine for the 21st century.

[Polaris]

I like how the article says it's not open to the public as if the Holy See was not its own country.

[Anomalocaris]

I like how the article says it's not open to the public as if the Holy See was not its own country.

As if? As if the Vatican is a respectable country that does not presume its citizens and agents has special dispensation to put their otherwise evolutionarily useless penises in the mouths and asses of foreign boys against the laws of those other countries?

[Polaris]

Use proper grammar.

[Minimalist]

A minor misdemeanor compared to the systematic ass-raping of little boys.

Too bad your fucking pope doesn't grasp that fact. I guess they didn't teach that in the Hitler Jugend.

[Anomalocaris]

Use proper grammar.

What does jumped up little christian worm like you know about "proper"?

[Polaris]

A minor misdemeanor compared to the systematic ass-raping of little boys.

Too bad your fucking pope doesn't grasp that fact. I guess they didn't teach that in the Hitler Jugend.

I'm not a fucking Catholic. The Catholics destroyed my culture.

[Minimalist]

The truth of the matter is that you're all alike.

You think your special relationship with your fairy god-father gives you a pass to do whatever the fuck you want.

[Lion IRC]

Imagine going back in time and telling Pliny the Younger or Pontius Pilate or Emperor Trajan about the great new addition to their city skyline.

[FallentoReason]

Imagine going back in time and telling Pliny the Younger or Pontius Pilate or Emperor Trajan about the great new addition to their city skyline.

Imagine also telling them about all the suffering Christianity has produced. It would produce a similar reaction to showing Karl Marx what Communism has become. Not impressed!