The cover of "The Plot to Kill The Pope"
Posted on 11/24/2006 7:30:34 AM PST by presidio9
The cover of "The Plot to Kill The Pope"
Butttttt, Islam is a PIECEFUL religion!
Here we see a further example of how Dan Brown's idiotic soccer mom soap opera was dangerous in its own way: Only one of its readers would possibly think to include Opus Dei in an assassination plot.
Unbelievable post. Thanks.
Say a prayer for him today. I am sure that you are aware of this, but the real purpose of Pope Benedict XVI's visit is not an outreach to Islam on the part of the Catholic Church. He is there to confer with Eastern Catholic Patriarch Bartholomew, whose Seat is in Istanbul.
Further clarification: The idea that the Pope was going to Turkey to build bridges with Islam is a construct of the clown car media. He's not visiting a Muslim nation for novelty's sake.
Turkey's existence explains the existence of nuclear wesapons
Opus Dei and the CIA??? Ha ha ha. That's too funny. This Pope will be safe. Fear not.
I bet you had no idea that Opus Dei and the CIA were chock full of Islamofacists.
Looks like the real battle in the world today is between non-violent ideologies (most religions) and violent, hate-filled, murderous killing ideologies (you know which one).
I wish President Bush understood what a moron he looks like every time he tries to pimp Islam as a peaceful loving religion on us.
It is neither peaceful nor loving nor a religion.
It is a death cult of hypocrisy.
The Pope has a free hand to be brutally honest about all subjects, because he is not running for anything. Politicians do not have that luxery.
All the more reason to expose mohamMAD and allah for what they are... Murderous, pedophilliac sons of satan.
And the pope never misses a chance to use that free hand either...as a life long Catholic...I have seen the church become more and more liberal and the anti-war trape is enough to make me feel like I have e-coli every Sunday morning.
Why? It's a work of fiction.
Is Opus Dei above reproach?
Vince Flynn wrote a book in which the bad guy was the POTUS!
Hold on just a second: This Pope is as anti-war as the last one. As a matter of fact, I'd be very comfortable with a Pope who didn't preach seeking every single alternative to war. The mistake that a lot of people make around here, especially non-Catholics, is mistaking adherence to Christ's directive of pasificism with the support of UBL or other terrorists.
We did what needed to be done, and are content to let God sort it out, but I don't believe that Christ would have ever directed us to go kill terrorists, and therefore the Pope shouldn't do it either. He doesn't waste a lot of breath these days saying "I told you not to do it."
Why don't you tell me how little you really know about Opus Dei, and I'll tell you why it's laughable to think that they'd be involved. BTW, I'm a lapsed member.
In any case, my point was really that nobody would even be familiar enough with them to include them in the plot unless they had read the book. And, of course narrow-minded muslims who read it would ignore the fact that it is fiction and in fact believe that it was mostly true. These are the same people who deny the Holocaust, after all.
It's just where I stand today. I have grown up a Catholic and still attend...however I really see where I differ with just about every issue they seem to stand in the public square other than Abortion and God being more involved in people's lives every day.
Example, when I heard the Pope say executing Saddam is wrong and shouldn't be done...is just insane to me. I have to look around once in a while at just who I am standing with and wonder...am I on the right team in God's church here? Because I really do subscribe to the eye for an eye concept.
Knowing what the Vatican turned their heads to in WW2 and what was happening with Jews..I mean there is only so much one can take hearing in the way of excuses and theology.
Don't get me wrong..I will never leave the church..EVER..however..I do not agree with a good 40-50% of what its spokespeople say.
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