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Benedict blunder shows he has failed to master media machine
breitbart.com ^ | Sep 15 10:45 AM US/Eastern | Staff

Posted on 09/15/2006 3:04:01 PM PDT by Nachum

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To: Nachum
He also has yet to rebuild ties with the Russian Orthodox Church

What? He hasn't healed THAT 1000-year-old schism yet!? What's he been doing for the past year?

61 posted on 09/15/2006 4:23:22 PM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)
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To: Nachum
"Who said it was a "blunder"? Maybe the rest of us should speak up as well."

WELL Said! Here is my comment - Islam is a religion like the Borg - assimilate or DIE!

62 posted on 09/15/2006 4:28:45 PM PDT by Dacus943
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To: pabianice
Ah, bullshit! Muslims are spring-loaded to the pissed-off position. Let's be real.

Ah, bullshit! Muslims are spring-loaded to have only one position, the pissed-off position. Let's be real. There, fixed it...

the infowarrior

63 posted on 09/15/2006 4:29:05 PM PDT by infowarrior (The GOP runs the US, the Dems run their mouths... Freeper HardStarboard)
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To: wolf78

Turning the other cheek is fine, but Jesus said nothing about having to turn it more than once. So while I understood JP II's desire for peaceful solutions, treating the muslims with kid gloves was never a realistic approach to solving the muslim problem. Our tolerance of modern-day muslim violence should have stopped long ago.


64 posted on 09/15/2006 4:30:22 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Nachum

Since when is the truth a "blunder." I was proud of the Pope for saying it like it is. If the Muslims cannot accept what there religion is teaching then they have the problem.


65 posted on 09/15/2006 4:31:02 PM PDT by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: Nachum

Sorry, it was NOT a blunder and it shows that he truly GETS it and is courageous in speaking the Truth. Finally, SOMEBODY who is bold to NOT be PC and to 'offend Muslim sensibilities' and call a spade a spade.

Or to name Satan as such.

Praise God for this good man.


66 posted on 09/15/2006 4:35:13 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Nachum
"Given the diplomatic battle ahead to placate the Muslim world..."

Given the magnitude of the questions they beg, you'd think the scribblers at Breitbart.com would have been proud to sign their names to this pusillanimous piece of character assassination.

67 posted on 09/15/2006 4:37:57 PM PDT by Tenniel (Never explain. Your friends don’t need it, and your enemies won’t believe it anyway. – E. Hubbard)
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To: Nachum
exactly.

If the these Muslims want a "holy" war... it will not be pretty (for them).

68 posted on 09/15/2006 4:39:08 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Nachum

why, with the media, is ia "all about us?" maybe there are those who can read/interpret all on their own and not worry about how the media spins any given situation ?


69 posted on 09/15/2006 4:43:42 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Nachum

"Blunder"???

Balderdash!!

I thought that the Pope nailed it PERFECTLY!!!


70 posted on 09/15/2006 4:44:16 PM PDT by Howie66 ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
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To: Nachum

No doubt the Holy Father knew exactly what he was saying and the Muslims have indeed made fools of themselves (again) in their reaction.

But I hope all those reading and saying that "finally someone in the West will speak the Truth" will also read the rest of that speech. Was it not mostly directed at the secular West where we pretend that science and reason are divorced from religion? He was still speaking the Truth here, no? Here, the challenge is for us. It is good that he named the spade a spade; may it help us in the West to trust him when he preaches the Gospel!!


71 posted on 09/15/2006 4:58:31 PM PDT by Piers-the-Ploughman
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To: Nachum
First off: his name is not Benedict. It is: Pope Benedict XVI

It's kind of like having a your kid call you by your first name. No respect. If my kid called me by my first name, I'd smack 'em upside the head.

That's exactly what the Pontiff did to these idiots: Smacked 'em upside the head.

God Bless him and pray for his safety. These guys are nuts.

72 posted on 09/15/2006 4:58:47 PM PDT by vortigern
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To: Nachum
Objective Moral Truths have been around waaaaayyy longer than the modern mass media culture and technologies. Once all of the latter is completely destroyed in The End (in whichever century or millenium that is to come), the fact is that only Objective Moral TRUTH shall remain.
73 posted on 09/15/2006 4:59:28 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: Kirkwood

As others have noted, Islam appears to be a religion with no sense of irony. It is quite predictable that Muslims around the world will protest this suggestion that Islam has violent tendencies by . . . violent demonstrations and maybe a few kidnappings and beheadings.


74 posted on 09/15/2006 5:23:59 PM PDT by maro
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To: Nachum

Good grief, the Pope spoke the TRUTH!


75 posted on 09/15/2006 5:33:17 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: backhoe

backhoe,

The Muslims are still "stuck on stupid".


76 posted on 09/15/2006 5:34:59 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: SJackson

http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7224

FYI...an excellent summary of what is going on...


77 posted on 09/15/2006 5:40:32 PM PDT by Frank Sheed (Tá brón orainn. Níl Spáinnis againn anseo.)
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To: maro
As others have noted, Islam appears to be a religion with no sense of irony.

They're just like the RATS. They love to dish it out, but are so thin-skinned that even a mild critisiscm will turn them even more nuts than they already are. His Holiness said nothing wrong, IMO.

78 posted on 09/15/2006 5:41:15 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: Nachum

The media, in their normal way of doing things, cause the blunders. Why? Because they are undereducated and don't understand speech when someone with an intelligent command uses it.


79 posted on 09/15/2006 5:43:10 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Nachum
Jesus also failed to "master the media machine."

Not that I'm saying Benedict is God incarnate. He must being doing something right, if Satan's stepchildren want to cut his head off.

80 posted on 09/15/2006 5:46:36 PM PDT by nonsporting
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