Posted on 04/18/2008 6:40:10 AM PDT by paterfamilias
Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi' By Melanie Hunter-Omar CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 17, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue received a phone call Thursday from an HBO executive regarding comments Maher made last Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."
As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Donohue said Maher "lied when he said the Pope 'used to be a Nazi.' Like all young men in Germany at the time, he was conscripted into a German Youth organization (from which he fled as soon as he could). Every responsible Jewish leader has acknowledged this reality and has never sought to brand the Pope a Nazi. That job falls to Maher."
Apparently HBO agreed with Donohue's assessment. "Apparently, now Maher does as well. Ergo, the apology," Donohue said.
So will the Catholic League accept Maher's apology?
"Assuming it comes across as genuine, the answer is yes. But I hasten to add that what we would really like to see is for Maher to stop with his hateful diatribes against the Catholic Church. So this is a start, but it hardly puts to rest our concerns," said Donohue.
"After all, there are plenty of factually accurate things Maher could say about other groups that would insult its members, but he chooses not to go there. Perhaps he can add Catholics and the Catholic Church to that protected list as well," he added.
I know you by your fruits.
You said: Acts 16:31 is not ALL of God’s word.
You mean there is more to understanding the Bible (and the Truth) than picking out selected versus to justify whatever heresy one is trying to sell?
NOTE: It is a shame that that 12th Century monk added the verse numbers to the Bible. He made it much to easy for the heretics to spew ignorance.
Thank you for your own personal interpretation of Scripture.
Some see the bible as a long series of flashcards, one verse per card, and see themselves free to pick only the cards from Scripture they like and disregard the rest...or discard them altogether.
I agree...I don’t think you hate Catholics. You probably have a low opinion of them, but I don’t think you hate them. You do hate the Catholic Church though. That is quite evident. And I find it quite ironic that you hate that which Christ loves.
Yes.
Christ said "Be not afraid; only believe."
That is not ALL he said.
No, I thking you made an accurate analysys there. The guy is a total jackass and it's beyond me why anyone pays any attention to his rants one way or another.
True. If they only knew what simpletons they come across as. Cutting and pasting verses that they, for the most part, have no idea what they mean in the light of the entirety of Divine Revelation. The process is comical...”oh this verse seems to support what I want to believe”...it’s like filling up a shopping cart where they should be nourishing their souls.
"Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way." -- Psalm 119:128
We just disagree over what is false and what is true.
Regarding salvation, we learn everything we need to know in Acts 16:30-31 which is simply reiterating what Christ told His followers...
And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." -- Acts 16:30-31"And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
As for the rest of what Christ said, it all lines up with Christ's words in Mark 5:36. Christ came to save the lost sheep of Israel, and He will invariably lead everyone one of them home. He will lose none of them because God gave them to Him in the first place. Their salvation is the very reason why Christ was born and died and resurrected from the cross. Their salvation by grace alone through faith alone brings glory to God's name.
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them... Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word" -- John 17:9-10,20"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
"Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36
No, we do not.
All 73 books are in the Catholic Bible.
Yup and it was in there before the 5:36 was added to it by a Catholic monk in the 12th Century. The Bible is to be interpreted as a whole in light of the entirety of Divine Revelation, not a bunch of verses to be picked apart to support whatever heresy you have chosen.
More name-calling.
"But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." -- 2 Corinthians 10:17-18"Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods." -- Psalm 97:7
LOL...see.
Yet it is nothing for her to insinuate we serve graven images or boast ourselves of idols. No personal attack there.
Of course not. That is just admonishing paganism.
Of course the real paganism that I see so evident is bibliolatry. It is a shame so many are ignorant of the entirety of Divine Revelation, but instead worship a book.
All we Protestants suggest is that our Catholic FRiends do the same thing Luther did -- read the Bible which is "the sword of the Holy Spirit (Eph. 6:17)...
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." -- 2 Timothy 3:13-17"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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