Guardian angels are real, says Pope

[Minimalist]

I continually marvel at the level of egotism it takes for some ignorant fuckhead to think that he gets his own personal "angel." Stupidity to the nth degree.

[Anomalocaris]

Not that there is anything wrong with Protestants and Catholics sniping at each other . . .

They are doing it wrong if there are no casualties.

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And they help us make the best decisions.


This of course throws up some important questions, such as why does my angel have to be male instead of some sexy blonde piece, or what advice do they give to the priests about which choirboy to fuck.

(Link, although this being the Grauniad, Fanny was probably talking about gardening angles.)

Go home, Francis, you're drunk.

It's sad.. This guy is the figure head of a whole religion supposedly based on the bible, yet he looks to tradition rather than the bible to label the experience he is describing.

The pope labels these the works of a guardian angel. Angels are just messengers. They bring a message from their master. What the pope is describing according to the bible is the Holy Spirit, and it appears he doesn't even know any better. It is the fruit, and gifts of the Holy Spirit that he is unknowingly describing.

The problem with looking for and worshiping Angels, is that God is not the only one who commands legions of them. Is it beyond the master of lies to send an angel to misrepresent himself to any of us?

He is the head of the religion that wrote your fucking bible, you idiot, if he has more to say than he has deemed the bible to be worthy of receiving, than you had better listen more attentively than you do the bible.

[The Valkyrie]

[Drich]

Perhaps because I wanted to post the article (note spelling) in order to garner people's opinions, rather than foist my own? All else I for one wrote has been engendered by the opinion you shared. To that end, I consider the OP entirely successful, in that it has generated discussion - the bread and butter of a discussion forum.

Well considered your bread buttered.

Sorry forgot the butter:

[Minimalist]

Just another idea borrowed from the Zoroastrians, via the Greeks. There is precious little in jesusism that is original.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravashi

A fravashi /frəˈvɑːʃi/ (Avestan fravaši; Middle Persian fravard, fravahr, fravash, fravaksh) is the guardian spirit mentioned in the Avesta of an individual, who sends out the urvan (often translated as 'soul') into the material world to fight the battle of good versus evil.

[vorlon13]

The only way the pope would know for sure about guardian angels is if one slew a pedophile priest whilst molesting a child in front of the pope's very own eyes.

[Minimalist]

The pervert priest has his own angel so they cancel each other out.

[Zidneya]

[Drich]

Just another idea borrowed from the Zoroastrians, via the Greeks. There is precious little in jesusism that is original.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravashi

A fravashi /frəˈvɑːʃi/ (Avestan fravaši; Middle Persian fravard, fravahr, fravash, fravaksh) is the guardian spirit mentioned in the Avesta of an individual, who sends out the urvan (often translated as 'soul') into the material world to fight the battle of good versus evil.

Sorry Minnie, looks like zoro fall a little short of christianity.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Zoroastrianism.html

[Raven]

John Gray, Near Eastern Mythology:

p. 16
"The Persians had their own mythology, or rather their own conception of the natural and supernatural order, formulated by the religion of Zarathushtra. this cosmic philosophy, influenced by Babylonian astronomy, had an effect on late Jewish thought and Messianic expectations."

P. 127
"The development of the concept of Satan as the personal power of evil, who had his counterpart in the archangel Michael, the champion of cause of man in God's purpose of creation, was probably developed under the influence of Persian Zoroastrian belief in the two conflicting spirits of good and evil....

Seeing as how it's all hogwash in any event does it really make any never mind?

I love how all religions love to beat up on all other religions and call them out as being false, and insisting that they have the exclusive franchise on the truth.

You're right, sort of. I just go one further. You're all full of shit.