Posted on 05/06/2015 12:19:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper blasted a series of cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad as “blasphemous” but also condemned the “mad and bloodthirsty” extremists who opened fire at a Texas exhibit of the cartoons.
The front-page article in L’Osservatore Romano likened the exhibit in Garland, Texas, to pouring “gasoline on the fire” of religious sensitivities and was critical of its sponsors, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, and professional provocateur Pamela Geller.
Police on Sunday (May 3) shot and killed two gunmen who opened fire outside the exhibit that was designed to provoke Muslim sensitivities; the so-called Islamic State has since claimed responsibility for the attack that injured a security guard, and promised more to come.
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After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Pope Francis condemned the idea of killing “in God’s name” but warned that “you cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”
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Dear semi-official newspaper:
It is not possible to blaspheme a false prophet.
Now go do your homework.
He could be what?
Don’t beat around the bush ...
Put out the dang fire and you won’t have to deal with the gasoline.
“you cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”
I’ll beat around whatever I wish.
blas·phe·mous
adjective
sacrilegious against God or sacred things
Allah is not God, neither is Mohammed "sacred"
If the Vatican considers speaking/writing/drawing against Mohammed or Allah to be "blasphemous", I wonder what they would say to Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus?
Elijah and the prophets of Baal:
"About noontime Elijah began mocking them. "You'll have to shout louder," he scoffed, "for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is daydreaming, or is relieving himself. Or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!"
1 Kings 18:27 NLT
John the Baptist and the Pharisees & Scribes:
"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
Matt 3:7
Jesus to the Pharisees and Scribes:
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Matt 23:27-33
Better to stick our heads in the sand and cower in the corner. Better to live on our knees than stand and confront evil. Better to...well you guys all know.
I see the Vatican is still protecting pedophiles.
Is the Pope auditioning for an anchor spot on CNN in case this Papacy thing doesn’t work out?
John Paul 2, where are you...? Well, I do know.
I hate this last guy, who with each passing day seems more and more the Latin American that he is.
But that was the old, cruel judgmental God of the Old Testament. The Pope is the Vicar of the loving, all-accepting God of the New Testament.
You’re a pansy.
False Prophet speaks for his muslim jihadi brothers That will bring forth the mahdi, aka what we call the Antichrist. Capital a.
Hes justifyjng the attack. Period.
Ask your mom.
You want to have a same-sex relationship with Mehmet Ali Acga.
Thanks for telling.
You can go, now. We all know what you are.
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