SubscribeThe Vatican claims that the Pope never was a Hitler Youth
The Vatican claimed that German-born Pope Benedict was never a member of the Hitler Youth. In fact, Reverend Federico Lombardi, the official Vatican spokesman said that the pope had “never, never, never” been in the Hitler Youth. The only problem is that the pope himself as admitted that he was indeed a member of the Hitler Youth. Reporters covering the Holy Father’s visit to Israel pointed out that Pope Benedict himself had said he was in the Hitler Youth in a 1996 book on then cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger.
Lombardi revised his earlier statement to say that the pope had been signed up against his will and did not take an active part in the Nazi Youth movement. So he was a member of the Hitler Youth, but he didn’t like it. That’s kind of like saying that you smoked marijuana, but you didn’t inhale. Not that I am suggesting that the pope ever smoked pot. Then again, he wears a white dress and bright red shoes. Would it really be that surprising if he got baked every once in a while?
I say no.
Why didn’t the Catholic church ever excommunicate Hitler?
If you assumed that the Catholic church excommunicated former alter boy and genocidal mass murderer Adolf Hitler, you would be wrong. Hitler’s mother was a Roman Catholic and raised young Adolf to be one too. In 1941, Adolf Hitler told Gerhard Engel, one of his generals, that “I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
The Vatican recently excommunicated a doctor and the mother of a 9-year-old Brazilian girl that was raped by her step-father. The reason? Because the poor girl was pregnant (with twins) and received and abortion. The doctor performed the abortion, and was excommunicated because of it. The mother consented to the abortion, and was excommunicated because of it. The step-father that raped his 9-year-old step-daughter was not excommunicated.
Other national leaders have been excommunicated by the Catholic church. Napoleon Bonaparte was excommunicated by Pope Pius VII in 1809. Fidel Castro was excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in 1962 for simply being a communist.
If Communists can be excommunicated, why can’t Nazis?
Catholic Church excommunicates mother, doctors of 9-year old rape victim who received an abortion
A 9-year-old girl in Brazil was raped by her step-father. When the girl complained of severe stomach pains, he mother took her to the hospital where doctors discovered that she was four months pregnant with twins. Evidently the girl had been sexually assaulted for years by her stepfather. When doctors explained to the girl’s mother that having a twins at such an early age would possibly kill the girl, the mother elected to terminate the pregnancies.
The 9-year-old rape victim received a life-saving abortion.
The Catholic Church responded to the situation by officially excommunicating the mother and doctors. A senior Vatican official defended the action saying that life must always be protected.
What about the step-father? Though he was arrested for raping his 9-year-old step-daughter and possibly her 14-year old handicapped sister, he was not excommunicated by the Catholic Church. The reason? Though the Church views that rape of a 9-year-old to be “a heinous crime”, it’s not as serious as abortion. The Church thinks what the girl’s mother and doctors did was far worse than what the rapist step-father did.
If there was ever a time this poor woman needed the spiritual support that one receives from one’s faith, it has to be now. Instead of supporting her, her church expels her. It’s not as if this woman actually made the choice to have her 9-year old daughter’s pregnancies terminated. This woman had no choice. She no more chose to have the pregnancies aborted than a person chooses to leave a burning building.
Creepy old guy wearing lots of bling and sitting in a gold throne warns against selfishness
Pope Benedict XVI delivered his annual Christmas sermon from a balcony of St Peter’s Basilica decked out in his finest golden clothing. He actually warned the world that it was headed toward ruin because of selfishness during these tough economic times.
Maybe his message would be a little easier to swallow if he wasn’t wearing so much bling.
Not only does the Pope have a golden thrown throne, but he keeps it out on his balcony. That makes me think he has even a nicer gold thrown throne inside. It’s kind of like somebody that keeps an old beat up sofa on the porch. You just know they have something much nicer inside.
The Quiverful movement
I blogged a couple of months ago about Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, a married couple in Arkansas that were expecting their 18th child. They were getting their own reality show on the Discovery Channel, 17 Kids and Counting. At the time I thought they were just incredibly weird. As it turns out, there is an actual name for what they are doing.
It’s called the Quiverful movement.
A quiver is the thing an archer uses to hold all of his arrows. To someone who practices Quiverful, their home is the quiver and their children are the arrows. The idea is to stock their quiver with as many arrows as they can. It’s practiced primarily by conservative Christian evangelicals here in the United States. They almost never use any form of birth control or any other type of family planning.
The Duggars are people living the Quiverful or “QF” life.
I still think it’s pretty weird. They must think very highly of their genes to so heavily overstock the gene pool. Evidently the Duggars can afford the Quiverful lifestyle. I read on the Discovery Channel website that they own their own cellphone tower. I didn’t even know they had cellphones in Arkansas.
Sikh man told to remove his turban because he was in the United States of America
United States citizen and North Carolina resident Gary Khera was told while trying to make a monetary donation to a local mission that he would have to remove his turban. Khera practices the Indian religion of Sikhism. Sikh men do not shave or cut their hair and they always were a turban in public.
Khera was told by the in-take director, “Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States.” Quite understandably, Khera refused to remove his turban. He was then told to leave.
He wasn’t able to even give the planed donation.
There are reasons the South has a certain reputation. This is just one of those reasons. Even if the people at the mission had no clue about one of the world’s most practiced religions, it’s obvious this man is wearing this turban for a reason. It’s not like he was wearing a Dale Earnhardt hat. These people at the mission acted extremely ignorant.
Sounds like to me that the entire staff of the mission needs to sit down and watch Bend it Like Beckham. Not only is it a good movie, they would learn a thing or two about Sikhism. [Channel 5 WRAL]
Orson Scott Card hates gay people that want to settle down and get married
Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has his secret Mormon holy underpants in a bunch over the idea of allowing gay people to marry. Marriage, that sacred holy union enjoyed by the likes of Britney Spears and Keven Federline and Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
Orson Scott Card does not like gay marriage and he chose to argue his views in the pages of the Mormon Times. How brave of him.
Here is some of what Orson Scott Card had to say:
These judges are making new law without any democratic process; in fact, their decisions are striking down laws enacted by majority vote.
No, that’s not what is happening. Massachusetts and California Judges have ruled against laws that discriminate against gay people. That is what judges are supposed to do. They strike down laws that discriminate against people because of their race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. It doesn’t matter if a majority of voters agreed to deny rights to gay people. There is a difference between a Democracy and mob rule.
Remember how rapidly gay marriage has become a requirement. When gay rights were being enforced by the courts back in the ’70s and ’80s, we were repeatedly told by all the proponents of gay rights that they would never attempt to legalize gay marriage.
It took about 15 minutes for that promise to be broken.
Who promised him that? It’s not that people want to legalize gay marriage. Those of us on the pro-gay marriage side just think that the government shouldn’t enact laws that make it illegal. There is a difference.
My wife and I enjoy the rights and privileges afforded to us because we are married. She is my legal next of kin and I am her’s. If I am ever in a life threatening accident and decisions have to be made concerning my care and treatment, not only will my wife be allowed to remain at my side, she will be allowed to make those decisions. The reason for this is because she and I are married.
This is only one of the many rights and privileges bestowed on married couples. Gay people in committed relationships love the person they are with just as much as I love my wife. Why should my wife and I get rights and privileges that committed gay couples don’t? I hate the fact that we deny this basic right to gay couples.
It’s embarrassing.
And for the record, if I am ever in a situation where my wife has to make a decision about my medical care, I want her to keep me alive any way that medical science allows. Not only do I want to be hooked up to machines, I want them to invent new machines just to keep me going. I want to live!
The choice is her’s though. She is my wife. She has earned the right to unplug me.
Leader of the National Association of Evangelicals kills two birds with one stone by buying methamphetamine from his gay prostitute
Ted Haggard, a gay marriage hating preacher-man that occasionally participated in White House conference calls, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and head of his Colorado church following allegations he met monthly with a gay prostitute for three years.
Paster Haggard denies having sex with the man, but admits receiving a massage and buying methamphetamine.
This guy was a heavy hitter in the evangelical movement. When he wasn’t meeting secretly with his gay male prostitute taking methamphetamine, he was meeting with George W. Bush plotting their right-wing battle against gay rights.
Ted Haggard is a fake and a fraud. I’m sure there are many people in his mega-church that will refuse to believe that their gay hating paster is in fact a drug taking, homosexual hypocrite.
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