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To: George W. Bush, dignan3, sinkspur
Well, GWB, I'm a little sick and tired of people who profess to be suspicious of the lamestream media:

(1) Taking the lamestream media's paraphrase (not even selective quotation! paraphrase!) of the Pope's public statements as faithful, verbatim accounts of everything he said on a particular occasion.

(2) Using that unreliable source's paraphrase as a stick with which to beat Catholics. Example: I don't know how many times the media has quoted two sentences or so from a half-hour sermon delivered at St. Peter's. As soon as these sentences are quoted, someone with an axe to grind posts them with a comment like: "See he doesn't even mention Jesus! He completely ignores Scripture!" when in the actual sermon he has spoken abundantly of the teaching and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus and quoted the Scriptures voluminously.

(3) Whenever this twisting and misrepresentation is pointed out, the antiCatholic posters who reveled in the lie never do the Christian thing and apologize for their slander and falsehood. They simply say stuff like: "Oh, is that what he really said? Well, who cares what he says anyway?" Well, they seemed to care quite a bit what he said before the truth of what he actually said became known. It only becomes inconsequential when it turns out not to be an antiCatholic weapon.

What some have said about the Pope on this thread is actually false, slanderous and uncharitable. But instead of owning up to the fact that they have gratuitously slandered a man who has never done anything to them and who, in point of fact, prays for them every day - they pretend that they've done nothing wrong and nothing worth apologizing for.

What a shining witness is exampled in their conduct.

303 posted on 09/26/2001 8:22:42 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake
What some have said about the Pope on this thread is actually false, slanderous and uncharitable. But instead of owning up to the fact that they have gratuitously slandered a man who has never done anything to them and who, in point of fact, prays for them every day - they pretend that they've done nothing wrong and nothing worth apologizing for.

I didn't read all of it so I won't dispute that. As I said, the pope's views didn't amount to much anyway.

It is actually offensive for the pope to pray for us non-Romanists in the way that he does. I would think you would know that. I don't mind if an RC of my acquaintance should happen to pray for me personally. But the pope has motives and claims in his prayers that I reject absolutely. And I won't apologize for saying it.
306 posted on 09/26/2001 10:11:12 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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