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.
Real love is not making that garbage up about your neighbor.
That is your personal interpretation of Scripture.
Works show ones faith, they do not add anything (Ja.2)
That is your personal interpretation of Scripture.
PET: That is your personal interpretation of Scripture.
No, that is Scriptural truth. Those words are "spirit and life" for all graced with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." -- Titus 3:5-7"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
How much clearer does it need to be?
None of us remains sinless after baptism.
Baptism doesn't remove this stain. Baptism pronounces on earth what God has wrought in heaven -- that we are saved by Christ's sacrifice alone on our behalf.
No chapter and verse?
"Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." -- Philippians 3:8-21
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." -- 1 John 1:8-9"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Men sin every day of their lives. But we have His promise that every one of those sins has been forgiven at the cross of Calvary.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 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 10:8-18"Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
None of that says that the stain of sin remains after Baptism.
I don’t see any Christians here worshipping a book. We worship the supreme author of that book, the one who kept it through the ages and who inspired the writers.
The only ones I see worshipping the ‘book’ but not the author are ladies of the Eastern Star. Very strange. They bring out the book, put it on an altar, and never open it.
You talk about idolatry but worship Mary and the Saints? Come on. Get real here. I have never met a protestant who worships the book. We try to get our point across with scripture but many Catholics won’t accept the Word of God as the truth. You’d rather read what the church fathers have to say about things.
You are in error.
Sigh. It’s worse than I thought...
How do you know that for sure? Everyone had their reasons for doing that. Bowing to him was undoubtedly one of those reasons.
LOLOL. Some days it sure seems so. Thank God for giving you and me the ability to understand and rejoice over your splendid tag — “God is still in control.”
LOLOL.
Instruction #1. Open the book and read it. 8~)
How do you know that?
By the way, he wasn't talking about "bowing." He was talking about "kneeling." The purpose of the kneeling during the liturgy is defined by the liturgy, and that purpose is NOT that they get "on their knees to Benedict."
Are you insinuating he worships Mary and the Saints? If so, why? On what evidence?
...many Catholics won’t accept the Word of God as the truth.
How do you know that? On what evidence?
Why is this blithering idiot still on TV? Geeez.
I base it on what is said here.
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