When the Pope speaks of “violence and hatred” he should certainly know what he’s talking about. He represents what throughout history has probably been the most violent and hate-filled organization on the face of the Earth. The Catholic Church enslaved, tortured and slaughtered tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children during its 800-year reign in Europe. And now the leaders of this Church, the Church which founded the Inquisition, pretend to be such a loving and peaceful people. What hypocrisy!
Mr. Ratzinger, why don’t you first rid your church of all the criminal pedophile priests and abusive nuns? The children deserve better! Then and only then should you worry about the well-being of those outside your reach. TGO
Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for an end to the fighting in Libya and the Ivory Coast.
Speaking at his public audience Wednesday, Benedict said “violence and hatred are always a defeat” and that he encourages a process of pacification and dialogue.
He said he was praying for the victims and feels “near to all those who are suffering.”
The pope also said that a special envoy he sent to the Ivory Coast to encourage a peaceful solution, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Turkson, has been blocked from entering the country.
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Oh Great One, and I am sure there is a reader or two out there that think it should be, “Oh Naïve One”, but that’s not here and neither is it there. I am truly worried about you, Oh Great One. This disease of the mind called skepticism that has been ravaging your cognitive thinking for years now, is progressing really, really, fast. I must say this because it ate away at my grandfathers’ brain cells and it was not a pretty sight to behold. Two of its very popular symptoms reared their ugly sides and showed themselves in your comment. One is that you will start personally lashing out to those that do not have the same perspective. My comment about the Pope was benevolent enough – hoping for the Pope to have a desire for cycles to end and lead to a future of loving and peaceful people – that you could not have misconstrued it as an attack on you personally and yet you became defensive and attacked with your own comment. The other symptom is what shrinks call, “psychological transference,” and what that does, is make you see things that you find disgusting about yourself, in others. I must say, it was at this moment I experienced some, “uncontrolled hysteria”, when I see that you wrote it as if Clint Eastwood is saying that quote to me, where that could not be further from the truth since GhostRider consciousness is radiating in Clint as evidenced in his last movie, Torino. But I’ll tell you who did use that quote on you – a man that goes by the male vernacular of Alice – when he wrote, “Somethings never change!!! You are all legends in your own minds”, 6 years ago to the date. I must be honest with the reader – that email was directed at both of us. PS Oh Great One… I forwarded that email to you in hopes that you’ll wake up because right now, as The B52s would sing, “You’re living in your own private Idaho.”
GhostRider, I appreciate your concern about my well-being, but I’ll be just fine. Maybe you should consider looking inward and focusing on your own issues instead of looking at others’ perceived “faults.”
Without sounding brash, I’m an extremely logical, level-headed and in control individual; and what you call skepticism is my ability to see things without the emotional distortion that most people suffer from. Again, I’ll be just fine.
If I myself were the Pope, I would certainly want this era to be the beginning of a new dawn of a loving and peaceful people. Hopefully his Holiness has GhostRider consciousness as it is spreading thru-out this reality of mine.
As for the Pope, he’s just a politician with a dress and funny-looking hat, and nothing more.
Sorry to say, but GhostRider’s consciousness is only spreading through your reality. As Clint Eastwood would say: “You’re a legend in your own mind.”