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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2013 8:19:39 GMT -8
My foray into the world of Catholicism was not mystical.
My overly analytic mind surveyed the pomp and pageantry with a critical business eye. The hierarchy/Management structure revealed a corporation that is sexist in a way that would never be acceptable in corporate America however being under the safety of the "church" umbrella they are free to delegate women the second class and menial roles.
The marketing side is fascinating though, I mean seriously when you have the trump card of eternal damnation in your tool box fundraising takes on epic proportions with endless possibilities.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2013 11:27:26 GMT -8
But hey, they got to drink wine and light up some incense. I see little that separates the 'habit' from the burka. 8-| The marketing aspect is not unlike trying to barter your health with a voodoo doc, you just don't want to go there. Great post siege. Interesting what the religious observers of subjugation and denigration of women fashionistas are wearing.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 23, 2013 12:04:36 GMT -8
This is hilarious. It's as bad as the televangelists. Yes I guess their god isn't the only thing that touched them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2013 16:39:05 GMT -8
Contrary to what has been written above, my money is revelations of some deed the Pope did during the war when he was in German army uniform why else would he quit a 'job for life' unless he won the lottery.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2013 23:54:38 GMT -8
Contrary to what has been written above, my money is revelations of some deed the Pope did during the war when he was in German army uniform why else would he quit a 'job for life' unless he won the lottery. Maybe he got a better offer.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 28, 2013 8:40:25 GMT -8
He probably misses the old days of being a regular guy. A Nazi soldier?
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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 28, 2013 9:12:56 GMT -8
Was Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) A Nazi? Why Join the Hitler Youth? By Austin Cline, About.com Guide See More About:adolf hitler & nazismcriticisms of catholicismpope benedict xvichristianity & antisemitism
Pope Benedict XVI
Wikipedia The question of Joseph Ratzinger’s involvement with Nazi Germany and the Hitler Youth is important: there is reason to think that Ratzinger has been less than fully candid about his past.
During much of the Nazi era, Joseph Ratzinger lived with his family in Traunstein, Germany, a small and staunchly Catholic town between Munich and Salzburg. During World War I there was a prisoner-of-war camp located here where, ironically, Adolf Hitler worked between December 1918 and March 1919. The town is located near the region of Austria which Hitler came from.
Resistance to the Nazis was dangerous and difficult, but not impossible. Elizabeth Lohner, a Traunstein resident whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, has been quoted as saying, “It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others. The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.”
A few hundred yards away from the Ratzingers' house, a family hid Hans Braxenthaler, a local resistance fighter who shot himself rather than be captured again. The SS regularly searched local homes for resistance members, so the Ratzingers couldn’t have not known about resistance efforts.
Traunstein also saw more than its share of local violence. In his biography of Joseph Ratzinger, John L. Allen, Jr. says that anti-Semitic violence, displacement, deportation, death, and even resistance turned the town into “an over-populated lunatic asylum of hopeless inhabitants.”
It’s curious that one of the lessons which Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, draws from the experiences of German Catholics under the Nazis is that Catholics should become even more obedient to their ecclesiastical leaders rather than more free to adopt independent courses of action. Ratzinger believes that greater fidelity to Catholic doctrine, as defined by the Vatican, is necessary to counter movements like Nazism.
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Post by Crusher on Feb 28, 2013 9:14:01 GMT -8
The Medicis knew how to rock as popes. Mucho orgies.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 28, 2013 9:33:21 GMT -8
Prayer: How to do nothing and claim you're helping.
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 28, 2013 10:43:56 GMT -8
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