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Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to freedom of expression when faith is insulted
Fox News ^ | January 15, 2015 | AP

Posted on 01/15/2015 5:54:28 AM PST by DaveMSmith

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.[...]

"If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," Francis said, throwing a pretend punch his way. "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."[...]

"There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others," he said. "They are provocateurs. And what happens to them is what would happen to Dr. Gasparri if he says a curse word against my mother. There is a limit."

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: charliehebdo; jesuischarlie; pope; popefrancis
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To: DaveMSmith

Limits huh?

So what is the limit for Christians that will allow Christians to murder and bomb those who exceed the limit?


21 posted on 01/15/2015 6:07:30 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: DaveMSmith

No wonder the mediots were so in love with this guy.


22 posted on 01/15/2015 6:07:37 AM PST by clintonh8r (Death to islam.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush
Thank God that Jesus did not feel the same way, or there would be no hope for any of us.

I call bs on this report. No man of Christ is so ill informed as to treat retaliation for a slight justifiable.

23 posted on 01/15/2015 6:08:09 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: DaveMSmith

The Argentine Socialist speaks...


24 posted on 01/15/2015 6:08:10 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Alex Murphy

You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”[...]

DECAPITATION.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 6:08:16 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Blackyce

...he is the last one...

ain’t he...?

rigkt?

( ; )

Benedict XVI to Be Second to Last Pope: Irish Prophet Malachy ... **
abcnews.go.com/ International/ benedict-xvi-pope-irish-prophet-malachy/ story?id=8499430 - Proxy - Highlight

OOPS ! Second to Last....Well, ABC says...


26 posted on 01/15/2015 6:08:52 AM PST by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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To: Alex Murphy

Whatever happened to turn the other cheek?

Not only will he steal from the dead, but he is willing to punch people.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 6:09:49 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: DaveMSmith

OK folks, no more jokes & jabs aimed at Scientology, Satanism, or Secular Humanism, “religions” all. Xenu, Beelzebub, and Gaea would not be pleased.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 6:10:01 AM PST by twister881
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To: scooby321

Irritating. It’s like he doesn’t understand the import of what he’s saying.


29 posted on 01/15/2015 6:10:02 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: DaveMSmith

Wow. Blame the victims and not the Muslims who are raping and murdering their way across Europe. Remember not to criticize the murderers because it might offend them.


31 posted on 01/15/2015 6:11:39 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: DaveMSmith

The Pope smokes dope.


32 posted on 01/15/2015 6:12:02 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Biggirl

Actually, the “People of the Book” were on the Muslim hit list long before Charlie Hebedo. Does this pope think he is appeasing Islam with statements like this? This encourages even more widespread belief that any Muslim may kill anyone who “disses” his religion.


33 posted on 01/15/2015 6:12:47 AM PST by trubolotta
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To: DaveMSmith
Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to freedom of expression when faith is insulted

LIE, there has been no limits on free expression when Christianity is insulted but then we do not kill those that do not CHOSE to believe or mock us.

Stop being cowards when it comes to free speech and expression. Stop bowing to such an evil religion. Muslims should go back to their disgusting slave ridden societies if they can not handle being mocked like everybody else in free societies.

34 posted on 01/15/2015 6:12:57 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: DaveMSmith

Another relativist totalitarian heard from.

Or is it just Joe Biden’s brother from another mother?


35 posted on 01/15/2015 6:13:17 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: DaveMSmith

Also something else that has always bugged me about any religion that denies me communion, just because I’m not their religion. I’m Lutheran, catholic lite, as we like to call ourselves, we believe the this bread and wine represent the body and blood of Christ. But because I’m not catholic (my sister is and is adament about it) I can’t take communion because I don’t believe the way Catholics do. So going on that mentality, they would deny Jesus communion if he was in their church, because he isn’t catholic. ironic


36 posted on 01/15/2015 6:13:38 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: DaveMSmith
For the record, Il Papa, what should be done with those who insult another's religion?

Burn them at the stake perhaps? No, that would not be very friendly to the environment what with all the smoke it would produce.

Howsabout disemboweling? Oh, I know, The Iron Maiden. That's always good for getting a heretic to see the light.

No, wait, I got it. Crucifixion. Yeah, that's the ticket.

37 posted on 01/15/2015 6:13:44 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Alex Murphy
Priests brawl in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity (w/video)

"It was a trivial problem that... occurs every year," Bethlehem police Lt-Col Khaled al-Tamimi told Reuters."

38 posted on 01/15/2015 6:13:55 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: DaveMSmith

A liberation theologist has finally become Pope. Spouts nothing that would embarrass marxism.


39 posted on 01/15/2015 6:14:37 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: allendale

But at the same time, a real sign of mature faith is learning to either not react or just to ignore or put on mental ignore.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 6:14:44 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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