Posted on 04/27/2005 6:10:42 PM PDT by Pyro7480
New Pope Benedict XVI has questionable past
From: Nelson Marans, Silver Spring
With the present pope's hometown in the heartland of Bavaria, the birthplace of the Nazi movement, there was little doubt that the overwhelming majority of the citizens were either Nazis or ready to follow the party line. There apparently was little opposition to the tactics of the Nazi Party from the residents of the town until they felt that their religion was being threatened by some of the pagan customs of the Third Reich. Certainly, despite his youth, the current pope was neutral when it came to the murderous treatment of the Jewish population of his hometown, without any departure from being a supporter of the Third Reich until it was obvious that the Nazi regime had collapsed militarily. His current objections to the Second Vatican Council, including its rapprochement with Jewish leaders and the apology for past transgressions against not only Judaism but other religions, do not speak well for the future of ecumenical relations with the other major religions of the world.
Whether he will grow in tolerance at his advanced age is open to question. His comments prior to his succession do not indicate any flexibility in his attitudes, with the proposed sainthood of Catholics who have supported the Roman Catholic Church wholeheartedly while having a less than admirable record toward other religions, including King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella, Popes Pius IX and XII and Catherine Anne Emmerich.
Examiner: By your logic, everyone who lived in the former Soviet Block was a communist. Obviously that's not true considering Pope John Paul II. Couldn't the same be true for the new pope?
I did not say that everyone was a Nazi in the pope's hometown, but Bavaria was the heartland of the Nazi Movement as far back as the Beer Hall putsch of 1923 and was key in electing Hitler to power in 1933. The story I cited noted there was no opposition to the removal of Jews to concentration camps in the pope's birthplace and Kristallnacht. Only when the church was attacked was there any vocal resistance.
Certainly not all Germans were Nazis, nor were all Russians communists, but certainly the level of tolerance for the Nazi seizure of power was greatest in Bavaria among the German states.
Ignoramus!
I mean Marans, of course. Obviously he knows nothing about the personal history of the pope or of his views.
The DC Examiner is a typical neocon rag. It prints a lot og garbage, including this particularly vile example.
LOL -submit this: 1 Tim 2:11-12 & 1 Cor 14:33-35, 37
Hey! I'm Irish and Dutch! Does that make me a Drunk Skater?
....the left has become truly laughable, they are imploding.
They are only proving to me that the right man was chosen.
Ditto, goober. Does your smarter brother Dewey realize you're such a putz.
Re: "So should Southerners be prevented from holding national public office? After all, we Rebels were, well, Rebels."
Trust me many would love to use this as an excuse in denying voting rights and holding national office to the entire South. Clintoon and Jimmy Carter excepted.
Besides some of us are Rebels still. Call me Unreconstructed.
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