Posted on 04/18/2005 6:51:26 AM PDT by TXBSAFH
Yeah???? YOU try living life with 2 fingers.
Saw it last night.
I'd recommend it to anyone.
Starkly accurate depiction.
Before they made Kurt Waldheim UN Secretary General, where was the media then? Methinks they didn't put 1/10th of the effort into investigating Waldheim's real Nazi past as they have trying to smear Ratzinger.
LOL! You are probably right!
No problem as long as I can (1) point and (2) express my opinion.
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It should be pointed out, in case anyone is in doubt, that the penalty for desertion was death. It took courage to do that.
What are you talking about? It was no big deal he was a Hilter Youth...he was 16. So what!
One is now a Republican, the other hates politicians. I'd say they should give this guy a break, besides, the liberals Pope would be a National Socialist.
Of course homosexuals are "objectively disordered." Sexual attraction has a biological purpose -- reproduction.
If someone had an irresistible urge to eat by stuffing food in his ear, everyone would recognize that he had some kind of mental disorder. Sexual attraction toward someone of the same sex is equally crazy.
Until a tiny handful of homosexuals/sympathizers in the American Psychological Association got together 20 or 30 years ago and voted homosexuality off the list of disorders, everyone recognized the obvious. Now, they engage in all kinds of doublespeak to avoid recognizing the obvious.
You know, the pope really ought to have extraordinary character. What Ratzinger did in his youth was imminently defensible. Indeed, given the circumstances he was quite brave. Nothing good could have come from his getting himself killed. The pope, however, ought to be a person of extraordinary character. Granted that no one of such extraordinary character would have survived in Nazi Germany in the 40s, but I think this is truly enough to kill Ratzinger's candidacy. Which is too bad.
The Pope is a baby-strangling, Jew-gassing, Hitler-praising Nazi.
Although I should point out that my calculations put his desertion around 1944, maybe later, and I don't know that anyone would have been in a position to enforce it by then. But I'm sure that, even so, it took courage. It wasn't clear that Germany would lose the war, even as late as D-Day, certainly not someone inundated with Nazi propaganda.
One of our readings in Church last Sunday was about Stepehn --- the first Christian (after Christ) killed for his faith.
One of the Jews looking on (if not participating) in the stoning was a young fellow named Saul.
People change.
Worse yet, he's Catholic. Gasp! ;)
How exactly is it a 'smear'? It's the truth isn't it? He was a Hitler youth, apparently returned home, and was drafted into the regular German army. Mind you, it says he deserted towards the end. But it's not like anything the media says will have an effect on the vote anyway.
I don't care one way or the other as I'm not Catholic. But shouldn't historical fact be presented just for knowledge? From the betting though, I've seen his numbers may be cooling a bit as he's too strong at the first. And I came close to betting on him as the choice.
Actually, I think Ratzinger has nothing to be ashamed of in his youthful activities. But at the same time, it's not inspiring either.
Of course. "Hitler's Pope." Can you see it?
Anyway, I'd be delighted with him or Cardinal Arinze.
Ok, now I know what you're talking about.
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