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Townhall.com ^ | December 30, 2014 | John Ransom

[Kaslin]

JimScott wrote:“God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life,”In the Italian Pope Francis said "demiurgo" which looks to me like "demiurge". So this should read "God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life".Yeh message to this sad misguided wannabe NYT reporter (i.e John Ransom) the Gnostic heretics of old believed in two gods the "good" god of the New Testament and the evil lesser god of the Old (i.e demiurge).-- --Can the Pope Shut Up Too?

Dear Comrade Scott,

I'll take a lot of criticism, but calling me a "wannabe NYT reporter"?

That's really low, even for a liberal. Talk about hate speech.

Once again in typical liberal fashion you are anxious to display that you, the Liberal, are an expert on everything while conservatives can’t even use a dictionary. That’s fine if you can back it up, but as Reagan said the problem with liberals is that they know so much that’s just not true.

The various wire service reports that came out on this story were based on an English translation that was provided by the Vatican Press office itself. Someone from the Vatican, who works for the pope-- likely a native Italian-- decided to translate the word "demiurgo" into the English phrase “divine being.”

So you can rap me with not understanding, but that’s because you know so much that upon closer inspection just isn’t true.

Can’t blame you: You’re a liberal.

Ah, but that’s not all.

Because Francis also said that God couldn’t just do whatever he wanted, like a magician with a magic wand.

"When we read about Creation in Genesis,” said Francis, “we run the risk of imagining God as a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so.”

Again, I don’t know if Francis, who gave this speech in Italian, and is not a native Italian speaker, doesn’t understand the subtleties of verbs in Italian and meant to say something else. But I do know that when you say God is not able to anything he wants that by definition you are limiting his power, that is his divinity.

So yeah: I think the pope ought to sit in the corner and be quiet for a little while rather than having to issue clarifications on what he meant. This isn’t the first time under this pope where he’s been misunderstood either deliberately or on accident.

Just months ago the Vatican had to retract an English translation of a report that dealt with welcoming gay people into the church:

In the English translation provided by the Vatican, this is rendered as: “Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?”

The key word “valutando,” which has sparked controversy within the Church, was translated by the Vatican as “valuing.”

Italian's “valutando” in fact means “evaluating,” and in this context would be better translated with “weighing” or “considering.”

While that’s true apparently—I’m not conversant in Italian-- one wonders how such important statements by the church can be released without someone in charge actually verifying the original intent of the language.

All the more reason for Francis to shut up right now.

IsraelFirsterSecond wrote: applaud you, John, for starting to wake up to the lie that is Catholicism. Get ye to a non denominational church asap!! --Can the Pope Shut Up Too?

Dear Comrade Firster,

Screw off.

I mean that in the original English translation of the phrase too.

It’s bad enough that I have deal with the intolerance of atheists, but I don’t have to put up with your bigotry.

Of all the organizations in the world, the Catholic Church has been one of the most long-lasting, civilization-building and unchanging. It will survive for a long time after we are gone. It represents, as do Christian faiths everywhere, the one immutable truth of creation.

We are not prefect, yet we can be saved.

Yes, even you can.

ericynot1 wrote: The most fascinating aspect of the Republican Party is its cannibalistic nature. - From the Great Emancipator to the Mental Masturbator

[Kaslin]

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