Posted on 05/13/2004 11:32:21 AM PDT by Shermy
If Ted Kennedy is as bad as everybody on FreeRepublic says he is, how come Bush let him draft the Education Bill?
So its "difficult" to find time for the pope to meet with the leader of the country that removed one of the world's most brutal and oppressive tyrants. Saddam would be terrorizing the people of Iraq and occupying Kuwait right now if not for us, but I suppose that's all been forgotten by the sanctimonious and pompously pious prelate in the Vatican.
Skip the papal visit.
I don't recall saying you were anti catholic. I said I can't understand why some people who don't listen to what the pope says need to make nasty comments.
I think the Vatican is trying to tell us to try to build bridges before we annihilate one another.
Lets get real.
I didn't claim you called me anti-catholic. I was just being up front about not being anti-catholic because it seems that no sooner does one say anything the least bit negative about the Pope, and you're blasted for being anti-catholic. Sorry if you misunderstood.
Regarding the "altar boys", frankly I've heard a lot more from the Vatican about U.S. "atrocities" at the Abu-whatever prison than I ever heard about the priest sex scandals. So some Baathist murderers and Fedayeen assassins were forced to wear women's underwear on their heads. (Do you remember, these were the thugs who threw people into Saddam's wood-chippers and used children as human shields?) Is that really in any way a more horrible crime than sodomizing a pre-teen altar boy? Let's get real.
Yes, I understand that the Vatican is trying to "build bridges" before we annihilate one another. Problem is, you can't do that with these Islamofascists, anymore than Neville Chamberlain could appease Hitler by ceding the Sudetanland.
The Koran mandates that these Muslim ghouls convert, or murder, the infidels. Is the Pope willing to forsake Jesus Christ for an Islamic Allah that demands blood sacrifice?
Maybe I don't get it because I'm not Catholic. But you guys can count me out of your headlong plunge into suicide.
No sooner than January 2005, and no later than January 2009.
Do you think our Dear President (and I mean that sincerely) is going to wipe out all terrorists in one or two terms?
No.
What do these questions have to do with anything I said in my post?
The cardinal said he also expected the pope to tell Bush that his policies in the Middle East in general were not helping the cause of peace. "We must above all build cultural understanding between peoples and I do not believe that our American friends are doing that," he said. "Bombing mosques, going into holy places, putting women soldiers in contact with naked men shows a lack of understanding of the Muslim world which I can only call surprising," he said. Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II is expected to warn President George W. Bush when the two men meet on June 4 that his policy in Iraq is wrong and the actions of US troops are damaging efforts to bring religions closer together, a senior Vatican official revealed. "We must build bridges with Islam, not dig trenches between us," he went on. "And we must give top priority to the Israeli-Palestinian question, which is the root cause of terrorism."
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Well that settles it. We will just go and find Mr. Islam, make nice with him. Seriously. What does this mean? What? Are we supposed to have little seminars and ecumenical meetings with AlQueda? This is just stupid pap. Stupid European pap. This pope would have been against the American Revolution. He's European and he does not understand America ...or Texas either.
We are staying the course. Iraq WILL BE FREE. Even if this goes on for 10 the next 10 years Iraq is still better off than it was for the last 10 years. There is less death, less suffering, less starvation, more medical help, better education, and more freedom of speech.
"Bush's personally coming to terms with the truth that this war was an unnecessary fraud. "
If you have an opinion just say it. Pretending to read Bush's mind is so stupid.
Right. Why? Because they are Europeans. I on the other hand am an American Texan and I hate the UN. The UN can go screw itself. And this Cardinal can stick it in his ear. I am a Catholic too.
In the least.
Even stopped clocks are right twice per day.
The Vatican is still here becaue it is irrelevant so no one needs to destroy it. The USSR is gone because it was relevant and a threat. The Pope, if we can believe the article, is making an absurd statement and should be spanked for it.
For the same reason he's tried to get closer to Jews instead of converting them?
IOW, the days of Inquisition and Crusading are over. Is that not a good thing?
Are Inquisition and Crusading the only ways of converting people? I think you know they are not.
If he does not believe in converting people to the faith he can not be a Christian believer. Do you think Europe and western culture can be preserved over the next few hundred years without actual Christians standing up to Islam?
And the absurd thing is, the Pope has made NO STATEMENT in this article. As I have come to understand it, the particular Cardinal who gave this interview, is retired.
Stopped clocks are correct twice a day, too bad your not a clock, you haven't been right yet.
Perhaps the Pope believes in a soft sell. That the way to convert Muslims, Jews, Budhists, etc. is to reach out to them, respect their faiths, gain their trust, and then inform them about Christ by word and deed. That non-Catholics, upon seeing the Pope's positive example, will then voluntarily ask to learn more.
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