The worst thing about Italian earthquake...

[Joods]

As for the OP, honestly, there are more important things about this earthquake to worry about than the pope. The pope is most certainly NOT the worst thing. How about the death toll and the fact that people lost lives, family and everything they own. Let's start there. 

Yes let's start here but we always cut to the pope standing in Vatican in drag as if in some gay s&m club reading from his stupid paper (it seems he can't even speak Italian or Latin but read it). I'm just annoyed with, like I said, every video of that disaster must include the Pope. And yes we see him frantically saving his multi-billion dollar business of selling false security to people that they have control over natural forces by kissing statues and listening to him.

Not to mention that Church is the only one that's going to make huge profit out of this with all those funeral$.

Do you really think that any of that is going to matter to a mother who is burying her small child? Honestly, you nitpick about the most trivial things.

[Seraphina]

Isn't it possible to feel both compassion for the earthquake victims and their families and also disgust at the superstitious who won't let a disaster go to waste when it comes to proselytizing?

There's room for more than one emotion in my head, how about you?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I think most people here are taking umbrage with the startling hyperbole in the thread's title, not asserting that it's a binary matter.

[Minimalist]

I always wonder what they are praying for?

[Alex K]

I think most people here are taking umbrage with the startling hyperbole in the thread's title, not asserting that it's a binary matter.

Yup

[abaris]

Isn't it possible to feel both compassion for the earthquake victims and their families and also disgust at the superstitious who won't let a disaster go to waste when it comes to proselytizing?  

For me it seems impossible, since I'm not the thought poiice. If someone takes comfort in prayer, they should get prayer. It's got nothing to do with proselytizing, since the pope, as I said in my first post, offers prayers to every victim of a disaster. That's his job. If he went out of his way trying to fish for new followers by weaving a tall tale about how this was god's punishment, it would be a different matter. But that's not what he does.

[Cato]

Wonder if Italians will convict and jail seismologists again?

[ApeNotKillApe]

Is that what ever news clip I see they always show fucking Pope reading from a sheet of paper of something he wrote about the earthquake. What an asshole. He's desperately trying to keep religion alive at moments like this when people are asking "Why would fucking god do something like this if he exists?" Especially when they have whole stupid Vatican there.

Yeah, that's kind of their thing.

[Anomalocaris]

RE: The worst thing about Italian earthquake...

That's the worst thing? So 200 people dying is the lesser of two evils? If you can stop the pope proselytizing for a few days by killing 200 innocent people, you would be doing some net positive good?

[abaris]

I wonder, and so far I got no answer, where's the network zooming in on the pope? All I keep seeing is news correspondents delivering - well - news.

If you can stop the pope proselytizing for a few days by killing 200 innocent people, you would be doing some net positive good?

Once again, he's not even proselityzing. He's just doing his job by adressing his crowd. He's not fishing for new people when he prays for the victims. It's what the pope fucking does.