Hey Frank, the prophet Elijah made fun of Baal.
Michael Savage was right when he labeled you as "Lenin's pope".
Posted on 01/16/2015 7:39:02 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Pope Francis has weighed into the debate over freedom of expression in the wake of the religious attacks in Paris, saying that anyone who insults a religion can expect a "punch in the nose".
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He said "If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother [Mary?], he can expect a punch in the nose."
Throwing a pretend punch, the Pope said: "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If one goes full-bore on free speech (which I personally believe in) and there is going to be a Charlie Hebdo like march, and all sorts of people show up mocking Islam, the Pope, Jesus, and have pics of the Dung Mary, Piss Christ and so on, then if you truly support unbridled free speech you will have to suck it up, and temporarily suspend your offense over your own faith being mocked and go all-out for free speech (as there would be people there mocking every faith).
If the Pope doesn’t grasp the concept of “turn the other cheek”, something’s wrong.
“Burn them at the stake like Jan Hus, sure. But don’t make fun of them.”
I think people are making way too much of this.
All the guy was trying to say is that while it might be legal to make fun of another religion, it is not polite. And we should be polite.
How is this even news?
Really?
1 Kings 18:27 (ESV)
27 And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
It seems that one would have to go all out for free speech in a march like this, or go by what Francis has to say. It looks like it is one or the other...
I wonder if he is basically saying “So in everything, do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:12 Luke 6:31.
Theres a lot in any idea about the unknowable to criticize, question, ridicule or doubt. Thats the nature of the unknowable.
Well said!
From my personal perspective, it is because he even deigned to consider Islam (which is at the root of his statement) a religion or a faith. It is a disease.
Is Pope Francis saying what Jesus said: “So in everything, do unto others as you would have them do unto you”?
I think that is what he is getting at. I may be wrong, though...
You draw an interesting comparison between Jesus and Elijah.
Do you support going full bore at marches and accepting the mockery of all faiths at theses marches, even yours?
As much as I disdain Frank and his phoniness, he probably meant that we shouldn't make fun of other religions. Either that or he's really letting his kneejerk Marxist lust for control be manifested.
Hey Frank, the prophet Elijah made fun of Baal.
Michael Savage was right when he labeled you as "Lenin's pope".
I would ask, “Your Holiness....what if it wasn’t a faith, but a murderous death-cult? Would it be okay to make fun of it then?”
I think he may have been saying that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us (Matthew 7:12, Luke 6: 31), or it is equally likely that he is saying what you have pointed out.
Do you support going full bore at marches and accepting the mockery of all faiths at theses marches, even yours?
Do they drug test Popes? Just curious..
Great minds.... haha...
We thought of the same verse, but I wanted a graphic (see above).
Congrats for being the first to post!
Frank probably hasn’t read that.
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