Pope likens "saving" gays to saving the rainforest

[IndianaGreen]

Source: Reuters

Pope likens "saving" gays to saving the rainforest

Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:46pm GMT

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

"(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration.

"The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less."

The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are. It opposes gay marriage and, in October, a leading Vatican official called homosexuality "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound."

The pope said humanity needed to "listen to the language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman. He compared behavior beyond traditional heterosexual relations as "a destruction of God's work."

He also defended the Church's right to "speak of human nature as man and woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected."


Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4BL2FE20081222

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[StudsT]

what century are we living in again?

i feel like i am living in a monty python skit :scared:

StudsT

[IndianaGreen]

31. Pope: "understand the intended roles of man and woman"

This is an incredibly misogynist statement, sort of "barefoot and pregnant" analogy.

[StudsT]

34. The Handmaid's Tale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale

with the economy going to the poor house on a bob sled I am filled with dread about where our masters will take the world next... i suppose they will reach for their old reliable -> creative destruction.

I think that there is no problem too large that some high explosives can't solve :scared:

StudsT

[AlbertCat]

42. understand the intended roles of man and woman

Sounds like Darwinism to me

[Bill McBlueState]

44. what do you think Darwinism is?

It doesn't sound like Darwinism to me, but given the sad state of science education in our country, people have a lot of different ideas of what Darwinism means.

[AlbertCat]

66. what do you think Darwinism is?

I was joking.

What it really sounds like is CRAP. (and Darwinism isn't crap)

[Bill McBlueState]

67. sorry, that flew completely over my head! n/t

[Zhade]

75. Wait, are we talking about ratzinger or warren?

The hate is so similar, it's hard to tell who's who.

[Kolesar]

93. I think the "forced asexuality" of the clergy is pretty weird

"Unnatural" to say the least. There are a few people who don't have the desire to have sex. I cannot relate to that.

I am aware that a lot of the clergy and the "nuns" are actually homosexuals who have found the best accomodation in life that they can explain to their families. Peace to them. (I hardly know the length of this subject, though. )

[defendandprotect]

114. A prime enemy of the RCC is females ....that doesn't leave much

for true believers to do but hate and "the best accommodation in life" ...

whatever that may be. This Pope likes authorian rule, reproduction

in hands of church/state -- and satin slippers, dresses -- and wealth.

[IndianaGreen]

117. Pope has gone bonkers on women priests!

The fool probably thinks that Jesus only speaks to him, and him alone, and that there is no way God would want a woman to serve as priest.

[IndianaGreen]

121. Did you see the woman dressed in red that tried to attack the Pope?

You could only catch part of it during the broadcast. She was stopped by the "Men in Black" that provide security for Pontiff. There was the look of terror on the Pope's face as the woman lunged towards him.

[NWHarkness]

1. Is he available Jan 20? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

3. We can cut Warren's invocation in half to make room for the Pope

Perhaps Warren and the Pope can compare notes or something.

[Zhade]

74. AWESOME.

First post, and you nailed it.

[mmonk]

91. Lol

[chatnoir]

102. Nailed that one -- and the first post!

:thumbsup:

[dorkulon]

123. Would DUers be up in arms if the Pope gave the invocation?

Something tells me not so much.

[HopeHoops]

2. Um, yeah, sure. I can see the similarity. Gays, rainforests - obviously similar.

I think someone gave the Pope "special" incense from Afghanistan.

[ananda]

4. Rat shows his Nazi roots yet again.

Pope Rat really needs some kind of humanizing
therapy. He is so sick and sinister...

[hedgehog]

32. Quite seriously, I think you are correct. Eugenics was a respectable

science back then. the US was saved only by seeing the horrors of applied eugenics during the holocaust.

How much of Western Civilization's contempt and fear of gays goes back to fears that Roman families weren't producing enough soldiers for Rome's armies?How sad to see that the Roman Empire's final triumph is that it lives on at the heart of its enemy, Christianity?

[Riverman]

69. Destruction of the Rainforests IS directly correlated

(to use a "science" word) with over-population, espcially in those countries where procreation has been violently enforced by the doctrines of the Catholic Church and other religions! As a holy roller young catholic boy, when the priest preached about "propagating the faith," I thought they meant to go convert the heathens - the non-believers to the Church. It wasn't until as 17 yr old college student when I started reading about the slums in Brazil that I understood the connection between what propagate really meant - unending procreation and hell-on-earth extreme poverty, violence and utter dispair for more than half the world's population. People who choose to not pro-create and some of whom choose to raise the off-spring of irresponsible procreators are do their small bit to help save the rainforest, and the planet and all that depend on it for salvation!

Has anyone calculated the carbon footprint of the Catholic Church? Time to tax the church and use the money to money to help feed people, for starters!

[Zhade]

76. "Has anyone calculated the carbon footprint of the Catholic Church?"

Well-said!

And how about using some of that VAST wealth in the vatican to actually help the starving children it encourages people to create? Or to pay for meds for the AIDS it spreads by repeating the HORRIFIC LIE that the disease passes through condoms?

[tom_paine]

106. Now, now, that Vatican Bank Laundered Money is the vatican's primary source of income.

The Vatican is a business, no more, no less, and a VERY crooked business at that.

There has been only ONE pope to publicly state he was going to reform the criminally corrupt Vatican Bank.

And he died in 78 days from ascending the Papal Throne.

[IndianaGreen]

107. John Paul I died under mysterious circumstances

Officially he died of a heart attack, unofficially who knows, but Francis Ford Coppola used a John Paul I look-alike in Godfather III, and he is poisoned after he tried to clean up the Vatican Bank.

[tom_paine]

109. I thought he OD'd on his Blood Pressure medication "by mistake" was the official story.

In either case, I have never sat and watched GFIII all the way through because it sucks compared to I and II.

So I never knew about that JPI subplot in GFIII. Oh, that's RICH! Francis Ford Coppola smacks att he Catholic Church by telling their murder story as fiction. What could they do? make a fuss about it and they draw attention to their misdeed.

Of course, if I am to be honest about it, it could also be that I hadn't done enough research on it and I fell into an Internet Trap of Bullshit. The Internet is full of 'em and we have to be constantly questioning and verifying to avoid these Bullshit Traps as best we can So I do thank you for pointing out the similarity.

Because the alternative hypothesis is that I got suckered by some Internet BS tht was riffing off the plot of GFIII.

Now I have to go do some more reading, and try to seperate bullshit from fact.

Thanks again for this post.

[defendandprotect]

115. Opus Dei, I believe, gave Vatican $1 BILLION to fix bank problem ....

Pope John XXIII had pushed them out of church.

[xchrom]

5. that pope is one hateful fuck. nt

[zehnkatzen]

6. ... But gays don't inhale CO2, exhale O2, and are thick in the Amazon Basin ...

...at least not as far as I know. After all, I'm no nuculer scientist.

But I'm pretty sure it's trees that do that.

Take it from this lapsed Catholiic: Catholicism makes you krazees.

And the Pope needs to get laid.

[caseymoz]

7. This has to be the bizarre religious analogy ever

justifying hatred. Like, purifying the human race of homosexuality et. al is a great cause.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Being German, I wonder if he was thinking of pruning the forest

Pruning Forest Trees

http://www.forestry.iastate.edu/publications/PM1133.pdf

[Igel]

13. Dangerously close to being a zeugma. n/t

[balantz]

8. I think it's better to save the world from evil popes. n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. pope is a homophobic bigot and an asshole. nt

[Karenina]

71. Mankind will not be free until the last king

is strangled with the entrails of the last priest... Senior moment, can't remember the source.

[Zhade]

77. According to wiki...

""Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." – sometimes attributed to Diderot, sometimes also to Jean Meslier, although neither seems to be true; what Diderot did write is: “Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre, / Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.” ("And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, / For want of a rope, to strangle kings." – in the poem Les Éleuthéromanes)"

Happy holidays to you and J! I will always remember how very accepting he was when I came out.

[happygoluckytoyou]

10. NO SEX WITH WOMEN? WEARS DRESSES? PROTECTS PEDOPHILES? .... it's POPEMAN.. what a GAY hat !!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x252248

[mitchum]

82. You forgot Ratfucker's exquisite ermine slippers

[semillama]

90. There's no place like Rome!

[dipsydoodle]

11. So much for the season of goodwill.

x(

[IndianaGreen]

15. Aren't these religious leaders similar to the ones that Jesus opposed in his time?

I recall one of my Christian friends telling me about Jesus kicking the money people out of the temple and a rant of his against religious leaders that portray themselves as white as stone tombs but that inside they are all decayed.

[dipsydoodle]

23. I should have said goodwill to all

quite apart from which I notice he conveniently ommited to mention priests and choirboys.

[defendandprotect]

45. ...or The Swiss Guards -- !!!

Quite a story there ....

[CatholicEdHead]

14. It came out very badly but it is consistent

If you follow the letter of Canon Law, sex is only for procreation, same-gender sex is not for procreation, hence a threat to society reproducing according to the article.

Homophobia continues to run rampant at the highest levels over their inability to deal with the pedophilia scandal and at those levels those two are also equal in most minds at that level. It also continues the scapegoating of gays as nobody at that level wants to truly take responsibility (that "Church as a perfect society" crap they are taught in seminary).

Things will change in Rome, but not for a couple of centuries.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. things woudl change faster if donations and participation in this homophobic church stopped.

money talks loudly.

[CatholicEdHead]

30. Actually, donations are also helping to drive this

since it is mostly the active far-righters who also have a big checkbook. Look up Tom Monahagahn/Ave Maria Radio-University-etc..., Karl Keating of Catholic Answers, etc...

They make money off of this and money talks.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. What's the church's position on elderly sex?

[dipsydoodle]

25. Seems to be ok

provided its an elderly priest and a young choir boy.

[Sparky 1]

92. ROTFLOL!!!

[undeterred]

22. I've heard that 40% of Catholic clergy are homosexual.

[AlbertCat]

40. I've heard that 40% of Catholic clergy are homosexual.

That means that 60% have the potential to molest little girls.

[No Elephants]

79. Or little boys. Pedophilia and homosexuality are entirely different.

[and-justice-for-all]

84. Seminary is nothing but a Gay disco....

not that there is anything wrong with that, sounds fun really..LOL

Put a bunch of young, horny men in isolation and what do you expect, there is bound to be some hot gay priest sex.

But the hypocrisy is appalling, the history of the Catholics churches sexapades makes the fable of Sodom and Gomorrah look like a teletubbies episode.

[undeterred]

101. I knew a Catholic seminary student who was heterosexual.

He had grown up in a big Catholic family, and he wanted to get married and have a big family of his own. And, he also wanted to be a Catholic priest. He was the only seminary student in his class who got no financial aid at all, and he couldn't live in the houses belonging to the orders. I thought it was really ironic that the Church would treat someone who loved the Church so much like he was useless. He had to work and take out student loans to go through school. He probably ended up being a counselor or social worker instead.

[defendandprotect]

46. Procreation ... in the interest of RCC ---

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. What he really meant to say was

that "the gay" is causing global warming.

[defendandprotect]

47. Adorable ...

and wise ---

:)

[xxqqqzme]

17. and I liken the elimination

of the papacy to the elimination of DDT.

[Lerkfish]

18. um...okay, that is officially whack.

what about saving mankind from war? torture? slavery?

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[Zhade]

78. Strangely hypnotic...

:p

[undeterred]

20. If homosexuality is like pizza, and gays are the rainforest...

I'm so confused. :shrug:

[Jamastiene]

26. GREAT! I JUST got finished picking pepperoni out of my shoes.

Now, I gotta take my socks off and get a bunch of rosewood splinters out of my feet. I DO wish they'd make their minds up, because they are just fucking with mine. I COMPLETELY don't understand them any more.

[Jamastiene]

24. I wonder how long it took him to say that?

Was it more than two minutes or less than two minutes? After all, it's just words. :eyes:

[tomm2thumbs]

27. guess he should weed his own garden before going after others' yards

reinforcing that religion can be a force of evil just as much as force of good - depending on who is swinging the stick

[AlbertCat]

39. guess he should weed his own garden before going after others' yards

Well, as we all know, religion is KNOWN for doing that! I wonder why the Pope strayed so before looking inward? This never happens with religion!

[skooooo]

28. I think it's wonderful when gays save their money...

...but what does it have to do with the rain forest?

[pattmarty]

29. Fuck that pointy headed motherfucker!!!!

[truthisfreedom]

33. Save gays! Win valuable prizes!

I got nothin' here.

[Autumn]

35. Fuck that shit

:puke: :puke:

[Marrah_G]

36. He truly is Vile.

[AlbertCat]

37. The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are.

As with most Church doctrine....does this make any sense? I mean, does anybody know what this means?

It's not a sin to have sexual desire for someone of the same sex, as long as you don't act on it? Can you be straight or gay if you don't actually have sex? Does Platonic love care about gender? If you desire a same sex partner, but engage in hetero sex, that's not a lie or betrayal? It's OK to create a whole fake life for yourself involving a spouse and children and other victims of your deception? This is not a sin, but being yourself and expressing your true feelings is a sin.
Is that what Papa Benedict, who knows so very much about homosexuality as well as heterosexuality, is telling the millions of his flock?

What a completely shameless idiot!

[fjc]

50. This from the institution that protects it's own pedophiles.

[shadowknows69]

38. Wow, the level of ignorance is actually increasing. We may be doomed as a species.

[get the red out]

41. The Priesthood

is at best a club for self-hating gay men that want to take their frustrations out on everyone else. At worst, the priests that like kids might outnumber the poor, self-hating gay priests. Either way women are the cause of it all and if all of them had just been burned in the inquisition we wouldn't be having these problems and the rain forrest would be just fine too!

[Mithreal]

43. They use Diebold for the last Pope election? nt

[defendandprotect]

49. "Is the Pope Italian?" ...

That used to be the saying --

Then, suddenly a Polish/CIA Pope --

and all the Italian Popes who wanted to affirm the right to personal conscience

and birth control died early. sudden and unlikely deaths.

Vatican II was overturned by r-w in Church --

Meanwhile, Allen Dulles' nephew is rising in the Vatican --

Remember the '60's -- pre JFK coup -- were about peace and democracy --

The three -- JFK. Pope John XXIII and Kruschev were changing the world.

[hatrack]

48. Uh, Your Confusedness? Um, about that Papal Message you're doing . . . .

God, this doesn't even make sense.

[KamaAina]

51. Hey, maybe he's got something there

If we put GLBT people on the Endangered Species List, attacks on them (like Prop H8, backed by Rat's minions) would be illegal!

:sarcasm:

[defendandprotect]

52. Rather, we all need protection from bigotry and intolerance ....

expressed by fascists in satin pumps and dresses --

Popey also seems to be saying that "Creation" got it wrong --

but nothing about the RCC's own costly problems with child molesters --

AND, of course, Global Warming and rape of Rainforest has nothing to

do with "Manifest Destiny" or "Man's Dominion Over Nature" which are

the licenses to exploit nature and animal-life -- and even other human

beings according to various myths of inferiority.

[dcsmart]

53. i think it is shoe time once again

looks like we have another target....pack up the shoes and lets go. the catholic church is one very large hypocrisy. we need to make fun of him and his dress-wearing eunuchs. the institutional church has nothing to say about anything. they are misogynist, bigoted, unreasonable, dictatorial. their moral authority is laughable. the Church's sex scandal and cover up was probably the worst in the world. their history of repression and antisemitism condemns them. i am saying this of the Institutional Church. some organizations within the church do not follow their teachings on many issues, but still identify themselves as catholic. SAVING HUMANITY FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is what is of great importance.


EDITOR
PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY
http://timetofight.tumblr.com/

[Debi]

54. Oh and P.S. Make sure to put the Christ back in Christmas

have a blessed day :banghead:

Jesus what a Nazi prick!!!

[Politicalboi]

55. Sick angry

Pedophile who has power to cast judgment on others. STFU you piece of shit.

[VaYallaDawg]

56. More wisdom from Pope Bentdick.

[2Design]

57. stfu mr in charge of pedophiles church n/t

[GodlessBiker]

58. He's such an idiot.

[Riverman]

59. Earth, humanity and all sentient creatures MUST be saved from

Religions.

[IndianaGreen]

62. "That boy is not French. He's a Jew"

"That boy is not French. He's a Jew." That's the line spoken by the Gestapo officer in Au Revoir les Enfants, Louis Malle's semi-autobiographical film of Jewish boys that had taken refuge at a Catholic Academy. What it really means is that the Jewish boy is not a citizen like the other boys, he is not even a member of the human race. This is the essence of bigotry, the dehumanizing of people on some basis, whether it be race (the nazis saw Jews as a sub-human race), religion, or sexual orientation (another frequent target of the nazis), or mental and physical incapacity (mental patients were the first to be incinerated by the nazis).

What makes the Pope's words so disturbing is that he is using imagery used by the nazis. "Pruning" the forests or the fields, when applied to anything other than forestry or agronomy, always leads to the human rights abuses, such as we saw in Pol Pot's killing fields. LGBTs are human beings like all other members of the human race. They are entitled to the same rights and privileges as everyone else. No one has the right to dehumanize LGBTs, particularly those in positions of authority and influence.

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Karl Marx
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

[Baby Snooks]

60. The Final Pope...

According to the prophecies of St. Malachi this is the final pope before St. Peter returns to prepare everyone for the final days although I suspect it will be more a matter of one of the more lunatic cardinals declaring himself St. Peter and preparing everyone for the final days of the Catholic Church. I view all Christians at this point as in desperate need of psychiatric care. Catholics in particular.

[Pachamama]

95. I need to double check, but I thought that there was supposed to be one more after Benedict, that he

won't be the last, but rather the next to last. :shrug:

[Zhade]

97. Yeah, and according to Lucky the Leprechaun, Lucky Charms are "magically delicious".

:p

[RandomKoolzip]

61. Piece of shit. Fuck this guy.

Seriously? The fourteenth century has been over for at least twenty years now, Mr. pope....

[RCinBrooklyn]

63. Thus spoketh the Nazi pope.

[Harry Monroe]

64. And, uh, being gay causes global warming??

:wtf: :argh: :crazy:

[RCinBrooklyn]

65. No. no! Pedophile priests raping boys & girls at the altar causes global warming.

[Toucano]

68. Any gay man or woman who participates on any level with this organization should resign

All organists, choir directors, laypeople and clergy should walk out NOW!

It cannot be made any clearer.

[AlbertCat]

70. a leading Vatican official called homosexuality "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound.

Y'know, segregating oneself from society, being celibate and wearing clothes from the 11th century seems much more "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound" than homosexuality.

[Mari333]

72. !!!!

!!!!

[Zhade]

73. And to think there are actually suckers who still believe the catholic church is worth supporting...

...instead of accepting that it's a vile, worthless institution of self-deluded hate.

[No Elephants]

80. What an amazing coincidence. Just the other day, I was wondering

how I could possibly tell the difference between gays and the rainforest.

[nolabels]

100. A UN-amazing coincidence is the polar ice caps are melting almost as fast as........

the claims for truth and integrity have left the Catholic church and the rest of the bible thumpers. Funny how that works :shrug:

[mitchum]

81. Fuck that dress-wearing Nazi scumbag

[FiveGoodMen]

110. I couldn't say it better, so ... I second that! Fuck 'im.

[and-justice-for-all]

83. Like I am going to take moral advice from someone who was a Hitler Youth...

Not to meant the Catholic Priest pedophiles..

[eppur_se_muova]

85. OK, who spiked the holy water with PCP? nt

[Laelth]

86. Under John XXIII there was hope for the Church.

Catholics have not had a reasonable Pope since. Back to the dark ages, post haste. It's tragic, really.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[defendandprotect]

116. Right...with Vatican II he was making the church a democracy ....

The Nazi cult has overturned Varican II -- and this Pope is taking

RCC Fundie/Evangelical --!!!

[Charlie Brown]

87. the Pope should write pieces for the Onion

'cause that's what his analogy sounds like.

[Pacifist Patriot]

88. When I saw the topic that's exactly what I thought it was.

[BrklynLiberal]

89. The only appropriate response...

:puke:

[RCinBrooklyn]

94. ... is letting the Bulgarian that tried to kill the last pope go free (and give him a gun).

[MrSlayer]

96. Nazi Pope! Nazi Pope! Nazi Pope! Fuck Off!!!!

[Mad_Dem_X]

98. "...order of creation be respected"

But homosexuals aren't worthy of respect??? Religious nuts demand respect, but don't want to show it to other people who believe differently than they do. Pardon me, but fuck that!

[Odin2005]

99. Lamest. Comparison. EVER.

:puke: :wtf:

Somebody tell these morans that St. Thomas Aquinas has been dead for over 700 years and it's time for his philosophical teachings to be relegated to the history books. The only reason anyone cares about Aquinas's philosophy anymore is because the RCC still spews it.

[MrMickeysMom]

103. Yes, Ratzo Ritzo, I think I get your popely message now...

We have to save ourselves from homosexuality so we can have plenty of forests to hide all the pedophile priests.

This is why I hate organized religion. This poser should go back to wearing his lier hosing, spying on parents and delivering Adolf Hitler 8 by 10's.

[happyslug]

104. Actual sppech, sorry NOT presenlty in English, Your Choice German or Italian:

In Italian:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2008/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20081222_curia-romana_it.html

In German:

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2008/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20081222_curia-romana_ge.html

[tom_paine]

105. Nazi Ratso is learning to speak his hate in BushCode. Stands to reason as he is the Bush Pope.

He was a Bushie Youth when the German Bushies cast their shadow all over Europe. He's STILL a Bushie, though not so youthful anymore.

[treestar]

108. I'm sort of amazed he wants to save the rainforests

Right wing fundie nuts tend to sneer at environmentalism - they think God's just going to take care of it all.

[IndianaGreen]

111. It is only an analogy. He really wants to prune the human race of LGBTs

He certainly lays the theological foundations for a future genocide.

[riderinthestorm]

112. Interesting that the Pope chooses nature as analogy when atypical reproduction (and sex) is rampant

and (heh) natural in our animal/plant/environmental world.

From gay relationships to female only reproduction, the natural order of creation is MUCH more diverse than the human species. The "language of creation", "order of creation" is many degrees more complicated than the Pope is willing to acknowledge.

Humans (mammals) aren't 100% right handed: 10% +/- are lefties. Same with gays. This is the natural order of things. I'm no believer in gawd, but if you believe in a creator, there are obvious biological differences built into our species that cannot be glossed over regardless of the Pope's strained attempt to only "see" biology through his own (distorted and damaged) lens.

[ismnotwasm]

113. Pope, you Asshole

And about those women? The ones you want to condemn to continual pregnancy without choice you sick fuck?

Cain and Abel fighting from the gate because the OT god was an even bigger asshole?

Don't tell me about human nature and Tropical forests you-fucking-idiot-what-a-dumbass-analogy and fuck your order of creation. Lilith had it right.


Nobody destroyed more of "god's work" than his most faithful followers. (expect God himself, according to your own reference, the bible) Then they go around and want props for cleaning their own mess.

I'm not listening to the perverted mysgynist hate-filled reasoning that you are spewing.

[TrogL]

118. Glad I didn't see this earlier - I would have considered boycotting my niece's wedding

Held in a Roman Catholic church

[ima_sinnic]

119. dumbass bigoted pervert--everybody, including homosexuals, IS "God's creation"

when are people going to see through this perverted, sick, twisted institution and stop supporting it? The only reason these medieval assholes can continue to wield any influence in the world, and own so much of the world's real estate and precious artworks and treasures, is that people continue to believe they have any authority, wisdom, or relevance. But as usual, superstition and ignorance will reign.

[HelenWheels]

120. de-humanizing people, a dirty Nazi trick

It makes me very sad about my family and friends that remain in the Catholic church. They make the same excuse no matter what any of their leaders say or do - they always say that person doesn't represent them and they will not let that persons actions or words chase them out of their church - but then they do nothing to reprimand or even let their dissatisfaction be known.

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

122. This coming from a guy in the gayest red shoes I've ever seen?

[nolabels]

124. Shhhhhhhhhhhhish! be quiet allready, we wouldn't want him clicking those heels together

or would we :freak:

IN THE KNOW
Why the Pope wears red shoes
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080419-131339/Why-the-Pope-wears-red-shoes

[hunter]

125. There are many roads untraveled in Pope Benedict XVI's mind.

But for the Grace of God (or perhaps for denying it) he'd be the cheerfully strange uncle recounting his glory days of bright red shoes, shiny shirts, glitter, glam, and DISCO!

If he's unusually happy today it's because someone gave him a DVD of Mamma Mia! for Christmas.

[NoodleyAppendage]

126. GOD IS DEAD. Now, f*ck off you bigoted byproduct of a declining Roman Empire.

Saving humanity from religious dogma and dumbasses in power would be tops on my list.

J