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.
You said: That Catholic monk went back to the Bible and read Mark 5 and John 17 and Acts 16 and couldn’t reconcile the truth therein with the beliefs and actions of his garish church which had all but extinguished the reality of Christ risen, instead supplanting it with empty ritual and rites and ceremonies and dead people.
Document that claim.
Why would anyone do what Luther did? He was a Jew-hating psychopath.
God tells us that Scripture is His designated means of instructing His family. Most people who actually read the Bible understand that fact.
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." -- John 6:63
Sadly, the RCC teaches that flesh does "profiteth" by Rome's glorification of materialism. However, the truth is spiritually-discerned. Pray for guidance.
LOL. The Reformation "documented that claim." Let's see, I know it's here in my notes somewhere...
You are incorrect. While many protestants do not worship the Bible many do, and that is blatant idolatry.
Christ is not the object of your worship. Your worship centers around using selective verses from the Bible justifying a religious framework that allows adherents the ability to not have to take responsibility for their actions.
No..document your claim about that monk, or is this just another example of false witness?
Hate the Jews? Tear entire books out of the bible? Mock others as mere straw?
Encourage others to sin boldly?
You said: Encourage others to sin boldly?
See #344. That is the entire exegesis of protestantism.
bill is a pussy and I want to tell him to his face soooo badly..Lets see bill mock the Mooselims ..No balls has he. Go ahead Bill , lets see if you’re really a man , go after islam. He knows he don’t have to worry about a Catholic cutting off his head.
Please document that statement. I've never seen it, and I've never read anything even remotely like that on FR.
Christ is not the object of your worship.
You are reading my mind, bearing false witness, and making this personal.
Christ is the only object of my worship. Christ alone. It's the RCC who tries in vain to add to Christ's sacrifice on the cross with petty offerings of human vanity, with relics and prayers to "other intercessors," with empty rituals that do not impute righteousness but instead take our eyes off Christ risen. It is the RCC who encourages its member to follow "another Christ," to its everlasting shame.
Men are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.
You ridicule Scripture and demand for more atonement than what Christ performed on the cross for His sheep.
It's a damnable quest.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 9-18"Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Such is your personal interpretation of Scripture.
False.
You said: You ridicule Scripture
Absolutely not true. I ridicule the bibliolatry that many protestants are guilty of. As a Catholic, Holy Scripture attains fullness of understanding but is not worshiped as an idol and an end in itself. I pray you come to understand that and come home to Christ and His Church one day.
I believe the poster refers to the true Jesus Christ known to Catholics and Orthodox versus the multitude of individual Christs created by the multitude of individual interpretations of Holy Scripture in the protestant “exegesis”.
Hey Doc:
Isn’t your boy Calvin the HERETIC who declared a rival theologian a heretic and had him burned at the stake?
Furthermore, Servetus was the only individual put to death for heresy in Geneva during Calvin's lifetime. Strange indignation it is that men focus upon this one and virtually ignore the hundreds executed in other parts of the world. Further still, it must be remembered that Calvin's role in this entire matter was only that of expert witness at the trial. The idea that Calvin was "the dictator of Geneva" is utterly unfounded in fact. Calvin was never allowed to become a citizen of Geneva. He was technically among the habitants — resident legal aliens who had no right to vote, no right to carry weapons, and no right to hold public office. A habitant might be a pastor or teacher if there was no Genevan citizen who was qualified for the position. This is why Calvin was allowed to be pastor of the church there. But he was always denied access to the decision-making machinery...""...If one contends that Calvin was in error in agreeing with the execution of heretics then why is there not equal indignation against all the other leaders who supported and carried out and supported these measures elsewhere. None less than the honored Thomas Aquinas explicitly supported the burning of heretics saying, "If the heretic still remains pertinacious the church, despairing of his conversion, provides for the salvation of others by separating him from the church by the sentence of excommunication and then leaves him to the secular judge to be exterminated from the world by death." (Summa Theologiae, IIaIIae q. 11 a. 3)
May God forgive them.
Protestants do not worship the Bible. We worship Jesus Christ alone. We recognize God instructs men by the Holy Spirit through the words of Scripture. Jesus Christ understood this, and we follow His lead.
Jn.3:
[19] And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Oh, is that all it takes? No good works? No repudiation of sin? No penance? Is that why you guys are so free to hate and still call yourselves “christian”? You mean, those magic words “I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior” immunize you against the lies and hatred that you continue to spew? I guess that’s why Rev. Wright can be a race-hater and be “saved.” Well, I guess I’m “saved” too. But I’ll continue to pray for you, anyway.
You have a passage in the Bible where someone actually asks what he do to be saved and is told-believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why do you want to add to what God told you to do?
As for being saved, you cannot add anything to faith, as Paul also makes clear in Gal.5 4] Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
It would help if you were a bit more elaborate in your statement.
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