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Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi'
CNSNews.com ^ | April 17, 2008 | Melanie Hunter-Omar

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.


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To: fortheDeclaration
Ofcourse it does, since they became SS, it shows that they were fanatical supporters of Hitler

Not "the most."

And how do you know that the SS were more fanatical supporter of Hitler than the Youth members, who eventually became SS?

History.

461 posted on 04/26/2008 5:37:28 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
My point is that you bear false witness against Catholicism and about a billion Roman Catholics with dazzling, jaw-dropping facility. I will pray for you.

And my point is that for it to be false witness it has to be false.

I just hope you don't do any praying to Mary or before any statures.

462 posted on 04/26/2008 5:37:38 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
No, since I am saying it is what the scripture clearly says it is not an interpretation, I am only saying what it says.

Quotations are "saying...what the scripture clearly says." Every other word you post--not directly quoted from Scripture--is your interpretation...and it shows.

463 posted on 04/26/2008 5:39:31 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Not at all, you refuse to read what you admit is clear scripture.

I have read it every time you have posted it, and have repeatedly told you so. Nonetheless, you continue to insist that I did not.

Why do you lie like that?

464 posted on 04/26/2008 5:40:51 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
[Iam not concerned about Ratzinger...]

ROFLMAO Riiiight.

You might check my posts to see if I brought up his name

I only was discussing the Nazi Youth movement and how serious it was.

Stop bearing false witness against me!!!

465 posted on 04/26/2008 5:41:19 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only? --James 2:24
466 posted on 04/26/2008 5:43:16 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
[The commandment states it is a sin to bow down before statues.]

That is your interpretation of the commandment.

No, that is what the commandement SAYS

: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

It is clear enough to anyone who can read English.

467 posted on 04/26/2008 5:44:00 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
You might check my posts to see if I brought up his name...

The entire thread is about him and what Maher said about him.

468 posted on 04/26/2008 5:45:49 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
[Now, why would the Pope preach something he doesn't believe.]

If that is a question, it is a nonsensical one. Of course the Pope believes in the Gospel of the grace of God. What he rejects is the heresy of sola fide.

The Pope preaches nothing about the grace of God and sola fide is what the Bible says how one must be saved.

For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyman should boast (Eph.2:8-9)

469 posted on 04/26/2008 5:47:24 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: Petronski
[It just shows that you would deny what you read for what your church tells you.]

Actually, it just shows that I will deny what YOU read for what Christ's own Church tells me.

No, it shows that you will deny what the scripture says for a lie.

470 posted on 04/26/2008 5:48:37 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
...sola fide is what the Bible says how one must be saved.

According to your personal interpretation of Scripture.

471 posted on 04/26/2008 5:49:29 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: fortheDeclaration
No, it shows that you will deny what the scripture says for a lie.

Your interpretation.

472 posted on 04/26/2008 5:52:54 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only? --James 2:24
473 posted on 04/26/2008 5:59:21 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: fortheDeclaration
The Pope preaches nothing about the grace of God . . .

False.

474 posted on 04/26/2008 6:37:53 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: fortheDeclaration
I just hope you don't do any praying to Mary or before any statures.

Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. --Matthew 7:5

475 posted on 04/26/2008 6:47:42 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski

Hey, you’re supposed to ignore that verse! Either that or give it such a strained and warped interpretation that it somehow means the exact opposite of what is clearly written! In other words, how dare you!


476 posted on 04/26/2008 11:45:40 AM PDT by theanonymouslurker
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To: theanonymouslurker

I know, I know. It’s made of straw, right?


477 posted on 04/26/2008 11:46:31 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
Yes. From Luther's lips to Satan’s ears.
478 posted on 04/26/2008 11:57:59 AM PDT by theanonymouslurker
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To: theanonymouslurker

I believe you have that backwards.

DV


479 posted on 04/26/2008 11:59:22 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
[I just hope you don't do any praying to Mary or before any statures.]

Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. --Matthew 7:5

ITim 2: [5] For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

480 posted on 04/27/2008 4:22:15 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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