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1 posted on 11/20/2009 9:14:37 AM PST by Plainsman
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To: Plainsman

When I think of the EU, the word “Holy” is the first thing that comes to mind.


2 posted on 11/20/2009 9:19:35 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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Very interesting! I wonder if he’s met Pope Benedict XVI? I would think he would have, at some point.


3 posted on 11/20/2009 9:22:52 AM PST by SuziQ
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Sounds good to me. Raise the banner and we’ll come running.


4 posted on 11/20/2009 9:25:05 AM PST by Spike Knotts
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“The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigour with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.”

Van Rompuy is so concerned with European universal values that he writes in the poetic form of European literary tradition--the haiku.

6 posted on 11/20/2009 9:30:38 AM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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This is like National Lampoon’s “The Immigrants” with Gregory Puck, when the featured group, “the hillbillies” forsook their situations in Europe and headed for America.

“I don’t like it here in Switzerland! My pants are too short, the cheese’s got holes in it, and hell, I’m a Baptist! I don’t wanna guard no Pope!”

“In America, they got cheese in aerosol cans, and you can get blue jeans real cheap!”

;^)


7 posted on 11/20/2009 9:56:46 AM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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The Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) was Germany in the middle ages. Perhaps sanctioned in title by the pope, but hardly ruled by Rome.
8 posted on 11/20/2009 11:12:08 AM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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The appointment of Herman Van Rompuy as “President of Europe” is a gift to conspiracy theorists...

Hmmmm....could it be that perhaps it's not just talk?

9 posted on 11/21/2009 1:19:56 AM PST by HarleyD
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Fascinating in a disturbing sort of way.


11 posted on 11/21/2009 6:52:55 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Plainsman
This agglomeration which was called
and which still calls itself
the Holy Roman Empire was
neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
                                                --Voltaire

12 posted on 11/21/2009 6:56:46 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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There is some old Catholic prophecies that the “Great Prince” (related to the French and Hapsburg royal families) will run Europe at the time of the “Great Pope”.

Supposedly he will throw out the Muslim invaders, while religious revival will occur under the Pope, and then there will be a period of peace before the anti christ comes.

Anyone know this guy's genealogy?

14 posted on 11/21/2009 7:42:34 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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