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Why an apology will not do
Published on September 24, 2006 By Bahu Virupaksha In Current Events
Even in the best of circumstances, Cardinal Ratzinger now Pope Benedict, is known as a tough and erudite theologian. Not withstanding his contropversial membership of the Hitler Youth during his early years, Ratzinger grew in stature during the heady days of the Vatical Council II which oversaw a few doctrinal and liturgical reforms. Pope Benedict has earned a reputation for himself as a conservative upholder of the rights and privileges of the Papcy in the manner of a medieval pope and therefore it is not surprsing that he made the outrageous remarks for which he has apologised not once but thrice in the last few days. Like the case of the Danish cartoons publised incidentally last September, the Pope's remarks have made a tense situation even worse. And he apologises after a fashion: I am sorry that you misunderstood my words etc etc.

The Byzantine monarch who was quoted by the Pope was engaged in a whole series of wars with the Turks in Anatolia in the thirteenth century a full century and a half before Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. And by appovingly quoting that medieval monarch who spewed out venom against Propher Mohammad, peace be on his name, Pope Benedict has shown not just lack of wisdom but worse an absolute ignorance of history. Even Edward Gibbon who published his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the eighteenth had a far deeper and in retrospect a richer academic understanding of Islam than this pope.

The unsophisticated and ignorant utterances of Pope Benedict has now ignited a flame that is spreading across the Islamic world. As it is the relationship between the Christian and Islamic worlds is full of problems and now the pope has stireed up the waters true and fast.

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on Sep 25, 2006
Reply By: jennifer1


Yes?


~S/P


noe of your beeswax! I changed my mind!   
on Sep 25, 2006
It was not any kind of apology. It was, and is, a rhetorical device designed to appease so-called 'liberal' critics who wish us all to hold hands and be nice to each other.


And what is so wrong with that as long as every party is committed to it? Nothing. Granted, it's idealistic, and very unrealistic.

As I said, Lucas, you really are not the brightest bulb in the box...


*shrugs* That's how I interpreted it. Deal with it, I'm not going to change my view on it. We might as well to agree to disagree.


noe of your beeswax! I changed my mind!


Oh darn! I was hoping you'd be the next person to bat.

Hahahahaha!No, Lucas. No you haven't. Not at all. Not even a little.Please always remember and never forget, it's far better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.The Pope isn't the fool here, you are.


Yes, I have, and you should keep that close to heart.

~S/P
on Sep 25, 2006
I'm pissed that an Islamist somewhere said something that offended me... I guess in SilentStupid and Bahu's eyes, it's ok for me to kill someone now.
on Sep 25, 2006
So where is the owner of this post? - Sitting in his chair having a fat giggle! I still think he posted this to piss us all off and plans never to participate on the thread!

Please always remember and never forget, it's far better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.


*thinks - must remember to keep mouth zipped*

Go on Bahu when are you going to participate?

The posts with the funny typing - what is that all about? someone swearing at us?
on Sep 25, 2006
I'm pissed that an Islamist somewhere said something that offended me... I guess in SilentStupid and Bahu's eyes, it's ok for me to kill someone now.


*sighs*

*rolls eyes, they almost fall out*

Read my posts. I say it again, READ my posts.


No, I stated clearly, that his fault was not knowing when to say something and when not to say something. I *never* said he was the one that caused the deaths. The only folks who are responsible for the deaths, are the ones that carried them out. I.e. the murderers,etc...[/B]


Again, I don't condone the reaction. Any of the killings, etc...



I never said it was right of them. I am [B]*NOT* apologizing for the muslim reactions, or anything. Yes, what they did (the murders, killings, etc...) IS wrong.

Get it?

Geesh...




on Sep 25, 2006
predictable post from someone who has simply become an anti-mainstream foil. It saddens me to see a good blogger fall to this.
on Sep 25, 2006
Here's a hint. Instead of all the histrionics, why don't you just stfu?


Hmmm...lemme see.

1) It's a free country

2) I'm not insulting you, or anyone here. I couldn't say the same about some others.

3) It's my opinion.

Have a nice day.

predictable post from someone who has simply become an anti-mainstream foil. It saddens me to see a good blogger fall to this.


Bahu, or myself? I'm guessing bahu.


Anywho...


*ducks as he leaves*

Back to my blog now...

~S/P
on Sep 25, 2006
Former Bishop Gerard Bouffard of Guatemala said the Vatican is \"the real spiritual controller\" of the Illuminati and New World Order while the Jesuits through the Black Pope, Jesuit Gen. Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, actually control the Vatican hierarchy and the Roman Catholic Church.

Bishop Bouffard, who left the Church and is now a born again Christian living n Canada, based his conclusion after working six years as a Vatican priest, assigned the task of passing daily, sensitive correspondence between the Pope and the leaders of the Jesuit Order residing at Borgo Santo Spirito 5 near St. Peter\'s Square.

\"Yes, the man known as the Black Pope controls all major decisions made by the Pope and he in turn controls the Illuminati,\" said Bishop Bouffard last week on Greg Szymanski\'s radio show, The Investigative Journal, at www.gcnlive.com where archives of the startling statements can be heard in their entirety.

\"I know this to be true since I worked for years in the Vatican and traveled with Pope John Paul II. The Pope takes his marching orders from the Black Pope as the Jesuits also arte the leaders of the New World Order, with the task of infiltrating other religions and governments of the world in order to bring about a one world fascist government and a one world religion based on Satanism and Lucifer.

\"People can\'t imagine how evil and how much destruction they have caused and will cause while, at the same time using the perfect cover of hiding behind black robes and professing to be men of God.\"

Bishop Bouffard\'s first hand knowledge of the evil lurking within the hierarchy of the Vatican and particularly the Jesuit Order confirms the testimony of other researchers, including Bill Hughes, author of the shocking books The Enemy Unmasked and The Secret Terrorists, as well as preeminent researcher of the Jesuit Order, Eric Jon Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins.

Besides painting a dark picture of the Black Pope in Rome, Bishop Bouffard claims the evil power of the Jesuits extends throughout the world, including solid infiltration of the U.S. government, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and major religious organizations.

Bishop Buffard claims the Jesuits act like the perfect chameleons, taking on the identity of Protestants, Mormons, Baptists and Jews with the intention of bringing about the downfall of America as well as bringing the country under a one world religion based in Jerusalem and under the control of their leader, Lucifer.

\"I know first hand that the Vatican controls and monitors everything in Israel with the intention of destroying the Jews,\" said Bishop Bouffard, adding the true purpose of the Jesuit Order is to orchestrate and control all leaders of the world in order to bring about a major worldwide conflict which will eventually destroy America, the Middle East and Israel. \"They destroy everything from within and want to bring about the destruction of the Catholic Church, as well, in order to usher in a one world religion based on Satanism. This is also seen in the way priests worship in the Mass, actually worshipping the dead. Also, signs of Satanism are seen in many outward symbols, customs and vestments displayed by the Church.\"

After his service in Rome, Bishop Bouffard spent time in Africa and Guatemala, rising to a position of power within the Church. However, with this religious power came affiliation and membership as a Freemason, becoming a 37 Degree Masonic member, something supposedly frowned upon in the Roman Catholic Church since, according to Canon Law, membership in a Masonic Lodge brings immediate excommunication.

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on Sep 25, 2006

It saddens me to see a good blogger fall to this.

As I said.  perhaps thaT is why he is not responding.

on Sep 26, 2006
Good answer, Lucas. You were never a 'good blogger' and in fact, you could fall no lower if you dug yourself a hole.

The only thing 'saddening' about you, dear boy, is that you've returned to spread a little more of your idiocy around JU. What's the matter, did you miss the abuse?


Oh wow, you said something that was slightly good towards me. I must mark that on the calendar.

Actually, no. I did it for my poetry. Ya, ya, you're probably going to say i can write poetry like col g can write decent articles. You know what, I don't care for you opinion. I've learned to just let those things slide off.

~S/P
on Sep 28, 2006
why can't the mulims forgive and forget and put it down to a foolish old man?


Let's see, (YAWN) the Muslims are now "mad" about yet another inconsequential bit of bullshit


The first sentiment would be admirable but for the simple fact that Islamophobia is inciting the likes of George Bush and his accolyte Tony Blair to murderous frenzy. In thwe context of the on going war against Islam, any statement of a major religious leader like the present Pope has to be tasken seriously. Pope Benedict uttered what was dormant in the minds of many people.

The Muslims do not need "causes" to be mad about. It seems that the USA and the rest of Western socireties are out to humiliate and project Islam in the worst ligh.
on Sep 28, 2006
Cardinal Ratzinger, as he once was, is not a nice man. He is an intellectual first, a Catholic second, and Pope third. And in every incarnation he seems to me to be a man commited to the values of Old Europe, and a man willing to go to war in defence of those values, whether the war be ideological or concretely military in nature.The Germans are not the French, and Benedict is defiantly German


While I agree with the sentiments expressed, I think it was Tacitus in Gremania who said that about the Germans.
Cardinal Rarzinger as I have said is a good theologian but I feel that a man occupying the office of the Pope must weigh his words carefully.
on Sep 28, 2006
errorist, muslim fanatics,baby killers= good people that are just living their daily lives


I am just tired of saying over and over again that I do not approve of violence.. Moreover, I am not a Muslim and I have quite a few differences with the Islamic praxsis of using violence instead of dialogue. Having said that we must also say that Pope Bebedict XIV lijke Pope Pius has made a majoe faux pas.
on Sep 28, 2006
yeh the towel heads call my people bad names all the time. very much jewhaters and they show it, so I guess that makes it alright if I decide to pick up a weapon and kill Muslim children and women and behead a few men on national t.v.Maybe mutilate a few bodies, shove them in a gutted pig before I kill them. it's all ok to do this right bahu? Matter of fact I would fully expect you to write an article telling the world I have the right to do this and am totally excused for it too.
on Sep 28, 2006

First off.... Not *ALL* Islamists are like that. Come back and show me every muslim/islamists statement that they feel that way. Otherwise, you're just generalizing.

Substitute word Nazi for Islamists and the same is true.

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