Posted on 09/16/2006 8:38:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Four days into his reign, Pope Benedict called the journalists who had been covering his election to what was billed as a press conference.
Addressing the assembled correspondents, photographers, camera operators, sound recordists and producers, he noted that the media were capable of reaching and influencing not only individuals, but whole masses of people - indeed, the whole of humanity. He thanked us all for our hard work in putting that awesome power at the service of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican for a few days. Then he blessed us - and, just as the reporters present were preparing to stick up their hands to ask questions - he left.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
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Good article.
I think it was a positive and important step into the future. Muslims have got to learn how to dialogue with spoken exchanges of thoughts. Muslim attitudes of superiority must be replaced with respect for others.
"And it is tragic and dangerous when one sows pain, either deliberately or carelessly." .....New York Times editorial
AGRRRRRRRRRRRR! Didn't they have this Pope written up in the NYT almost like he was a member of the SS Einsatz Gruppen, or something, before he became Pope? The NYT should practice what they preach.
I'm afraid this is why he's predicted to be the next to last pope. The last one will probably be a muslim at heart.
I agree.
Too bad about Notre Dame this weekend. Pride goeth before a fall.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Indeed, "Islam" means submission. They try to say it means "peace", but the only "peace" it represents is the "peace" of the grave, or submission to Islam.
More and more it is becoming evident to even the most impartial observers that two disparate religions such as Christianity and Islam can never coexist peacefully together. Christianity, based on love; kindness; understanding; and forgiveness, can never coexist alongside people who have lost their souls to a religion that is based on hate, cruelty, intolerance, and murder as is Islam.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
A savvy confidant, like the previous papal spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who came from a national daily newspaper, Spain's ABC, might well have prevented the crisis that enveloped the Vatican this week. He would have spotted immediately the danger in the pope quoting someone describing the teachings of Mohammad as 'evil and inhuman' and tried to persuade the pontiff to express his ideas in a rather more tactful fashion.
I think this is a misjudgement. The shy professor who isn't media-savvy.
He's not a man without experience with the media in his previous position and he may have had some notion that the media who live for 'conflict' would lift ideas out of context from his speech.
Shenouda is saying that since his people are getting reamed by Egypt and he doesn't want to make it worse.
But any remarks (or actions) which offend Christians are NOT against Mohammed's teachings. Of course killing them is OK, too.
The problem is that our guy said be nice, so people can hit us over the head with that.
But Mohammed was an SOB and also a "prophet" so no one can criticize Muslims for being SOBs.
Well, he was the head of the organization within the Church formerly known as "The Inquisition".
I can't wait to see how all this plays out. The Muzzies may not realize what they are in for.
"Muslim attitudes of superiority must be replaced with respect for others."
In other words, they need to learn what is, to them, the unfathomable concept of TOLERANCE. So, why do the lefties keep making excuses for those Islamofascists? I mean, the Left is all about "tolerance", right?;)
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Note that both islam and salem have the same consonants, and thus, in a Semitic language are fundamentally the same word.
The problem lies not so much with the translation of Islam as 'peace', as in a defective concept of peace among Muslims, in which only the peace which follows the cessation of hostilities by a total conquest exists, and the notion of a negotiated peace, or peace as a state of lack of emnity between either equals or friends does not exist.
That would mean replacing the Qur'an with the "Book." ;)
The reason is simple. "Tolerance" for the secular left means hating the Gospel and the Torah, since by definition Christians and pious Jews (as opposed to the kind who run Hollywood) are 'intolerant' because they think people should restrain their natural lusts.
Muslims are far away, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish, and therefore are allies. The fact that close up and in power, they would even more rigorously regulate such things as sodomy, women's dress, and the like, doesn't seem to have occured to the left.
The spectacle of self-proclaimed 'progressives' lending support to people who want to spread a copy of 7th century Arabia over the entire globe is truly a wonder to behold.
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