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Some nice sacrilege and blasphemy for turkey day.

Reza Aslan is the author most recently of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, which he reminds you would make a wonderful Christmas gift.

1 posted on 11/28/2013 8:58:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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the Pope...the man whose actual job description is to speak for Jesus.

Ummmmmmm....I'll not go there. Happy Thanksgiving.

2 posted on 11/28/2013 9:00:40 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Then Rush and Sarah are wrong.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3096201/posts

Read what it really says. Don’t believe the lamestream media.


5 posted on 11/28/2013 9:05:00 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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This document is mostly about evangelization.....only a few paragraphs about the economics, but that is what the lamestream media focused on.

Heaven forbid that they might mention Evangelization! LOL!


6 posted on 11/28/2013 9:06:04 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Give people Pope Benedict XVI’s two books on Jesus of Nazareth. A much better gift.


8 posted on 11/28/2013 9:08:38 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Pope John Paul II, looks down @ this Pope and said,
"What the Heck, how far has my church has fallen."

10 posted on 11/28/2013 9:11:41 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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The Wall Street GOP is happy if the rich get richer and the poor have the Gospel preached to them. The Pope would like an economic system that would have fewer poor.


11 posted on 11/28/2013 9:14:57 AM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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“Trickle-down” is a term of abuse invented by Leftists. It is a straw-man caricature of free-market ideas. By using this term, the Pope disgraces himself and abuses his office. He also reveals that, when it comes to economic ideas, he is ill-educated, and is merely parroting slogans.

“Catholic Social Teaching” is mostly a huge blunder. The real basis of any valid “social teaching” is to be found here:

Honor thy father and thy mother.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.

Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s goods.


12 posted on 11/28/2013 9:15:06 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Jesus tried to reform the Roman Empire...not.


17 posted on 11/28/2013 9:21:32 AM PST by gusopol3
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Has anyone been to Vatican City lately? Not exactly the bad part of town, nor a slum, or the other side of the tracks. It took lots of riches to create and build that beautiful place. The Catholic Church is not a poverty stricken organization.


18 posted on 11/28/2013 9:21:45 AM PST by dowcaet
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The author is from Iran and converted to Christianity and back to Islam. I’ll stick with Rush and Sarah....bottom line the Pope is a leftist.


21 posted on 11/28/2013 9:22:50 AM PST by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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Will the church give some of it’s money for the good of inclusiveness ?.


25 posted on 11/28/2013 9:29:36 AM PST by Vaduz
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After Rush’s Tuesday ‘rant’ about the story, he said that he heard that the translation was not accurate. It will remain to be seen whether or not the original English translation is actually the true interpretation of Pope Francis’s words.

Remember that Pope Francis’s interview this summer was translated into a creed that inferred that abortion and contraception and gay lifestyles were not the things to emphasize. It was Jesus and his Gospel we should be evangelizing. Well, it is true that we need to first know Jesus and his gospel, before we begin to proselytize. But just this week, Pope Francis really clarified how terrible abortion was and was not to be trivialized.

I think two things are happening: First the liberals in the news media want to characterize Pope Francis as ‘on their side’, that is liberal; and second Pope Francis will quickly learn that he has to be more careful with how the press will manipulate his words.

I am going to give PF the benefit of the doubt here, and believe that his sincere wish for a charitable Christianity and help for the poor, plus his love of the simple life has been poorly enunciated or poorly translated.

Rush is right, however. He and John Stossel both have claimed that capitalism has gotten more people out of poverty than any other economic system. This is true.


26 posted on 11/28/2013 9:31:22 AM PST by Gumdrop
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Matthew 25:14-30


32 posted on 11/28/2013 9:37:45 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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The Reza guy sees Jesus as a socialist/communist for economics and either does not want or cannot accept Jesus’ message as relating to spiritual life revolution, not a socialist revolution against the Romans at the time and against non-socialists today.


34 posted on 11/28/2013 9:40:44 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Because Iranian Islamofascists care about the Catholic Church.


36 posted on 11/28/2013 9:42:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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Thinking themselves smart they become fools, where did I hear that?


43 posted on 11/28/2013 10:10:57 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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If Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin don’t like the pope, they won’t care much for Jesus

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If one likes the Bible, one won’t care much for what the Pope says


45 posted on 11/28/2013 10:11:51 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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In response to Pope Francis’ first Apostolic Exhortation, in which the pontiff denounced “trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” these two paragons of the far right – both of whom regularly invoke the teachings of Jesus to bolster their own political views – have suddenly turned their backs on the man whose actual job description is to speak for Jesus.

Sarah Palin complained that Pope Francis sounded “kind of liberal” in his statements decrying the growing global income equality between the rich and the poor (she has since apologized). Rush Limbaugh went one step further. “This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope,” he harrumphed into his giant microphone. Limbaugh, in his trademarked conspiratorial style, speculated that the pope’s tirade against “widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion” must have been forced upon him by somebody else. “Somebody has either written this for [the pope] or gotten to him,” he said.

Limbaugh is right. Somebody did get to Pope Francis. It was Jesus....

Ping for later.

46 posted on 11/28/2013 10:12:29 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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Jesus didn't espouse any position on government confiscation of wealth and redistribution. And he would surely not have approved of Benedict's arrogant preaching on the subject. “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

If Benedict wants to sell of the Vatican's $2.9 billion is securities, or turn the Sistine Chapel into a homeless shelter he is free to do so. Otherwise he should shut up and stop telling us what he won't do.

47 posted on 11/28/2013 10:17:55 AM PST by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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I know of no place in the world where “survival of the fittest” and “unbridled capitalism” hold sway, nor do I know of any economic system free of self-serving and corruption. The Pope speaks of sin and God’s will, not specific political systems or socioeconomic principles. The moslem sociologist lacks the contextual awareness to grasp the point of it all, but Rush was needlessly upset.


48 posted on 11/28/2013 10:21:35 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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