I see a picture of the Pope looking at a green book. Not saying he didn’t kiss whatever book it is, and if he, and that book was the Koran, I accept his reasoning. I don’t presume to know more than this towering intellect, who served 26 years as Pope, spoke 8 languages and devoted his entire life to Jesus Christ. The same can not be said for the majority of Catholic-haters on FR. In their small minds all popes are the anti-Christ and all Catholics are are on a fast train to hell.
“I see a picture of the Pope looking at a green book. Not saying he didn’t kiss whatever book it is, and if he, and that book was the Koran, I accept his reasoning.”
Oh, it doesn’t matter to me whether he kissed the Satanic Verses or not. You denied that he did. I simply provided a Catholic Priest link that says he did. Apparently, you were simply wrong. It happens.
“I don’t presume to know more than this towering intellect, who served 26 years as Pope, spoke 8 languages and devoted his entire life to Jesus Christ.”
I would never have done it as a follower of Christ, but it was his call. What he did, he did.
“The same can not be said for the majority of Catholic-haters on FR.”
I haven’t met a FReeper yet who “hates catholics.” Would you list 8 or 10 and some links where their hate of “catholics” was posted please?
“In their small minds all popes are the anti-Christ and all Catholics are are on a fast train to hell.”
Really? You know no one here speaks multiple languages? You know noone here devoted their life to Christ?You can read their minds? You’ve measured them to know they are small? You are either omniscient, or you’re making that up. Which? I’m doubting you know this.
But that is just your opinion. An even more conservative and knowledgeable RC opines PJ2 :
1. Invited pagans to pray to their false gods.
2. Looked the other way while his clerics raped his children, and ordained faggots to say his Masses
3. Shuffled pedophiles and homosexuals from parish to parish, even giving them safe haven at the Vatican.
4. Subjected those Catholic who dare protest to droning quotes from Vatican I and Lumen Gentium about “submission”
5. Watched scantily clad women dance while Mass was being said.
6. Suggested that hell might not exist.
7. Suggested that the Jews still have their Old Covenant
8. Kissed the Koran
9. Made it appear as if God has given man universal salvation by using ambiguous language in official writings
10. Accepted the tenets of evolution.
11. Wrote a catechism that contained theological errors and ambiguities.
12. Changed the canonization laws: marriage laws, capital punishment laws, laws about women’s roles.
13. Went against the tradition by putting women in leadership positions and dispensing with head coverings.
14. Failed to excommunicate heretical bishops and priests who were spouting heresies.
15. Protected Bishop Marcinkus and his entourage of financial hoodlums in the Vatican.
16. Ignored the pleas of a bishop who was merely trying to preserve the tradition (Archbishop Levebre)
17. Exonerated Luther
18. Allowed the Luther‐Catholic Joint Declaration, signed by a high‐ranking Cardinal, to explicitly state that “man is justified by faith alone.”
19. Disobeyed the Fatima request to consecrate Russia.
(http://www.catholicintl.com/articles/Response%20to%20John%20Dejak%20of%20The%20Wanderer.pdf; http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2011/04/sungenis-alone.html)
***I don’t presume to know more than this towering intellect, who served 26 years as Pope, spoke 8 languages and devoted his entire life to Jesus Christ.***
Ahh, a little argumentum ab auctoritate to spice up our Lords Day evening.
So tell me, how does planting a big juicy one on the Koran serve Jesus?