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Mon, 29 May 2006

Pope asks God why he 'tolerated' Holocaust

There's no reportage on the answer ... but what what really struck me about this was the continued backhanded smear on pagan paths:

"By destroying Israel with the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention." he said.

Maybe the pontiff could use a little review of history. Maybe he'd find that the biggest enemies of the Jewish people aren't the pagans after all.

AP - Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp as "a son of the German people" Sunday and asked God why he remained silent during the "unprecedented mass crimes" of the Holocaust.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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On 5/30/2006 03:36:19
Bjorngrimnir wrote

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Umm...last time I checked, it wasn't the Christian god who was silent during the WWII atrocities, it was the Church. I feel insulted by this remark, and I am neither related to holocaust survivors nor am I Christian. I think this is a kind of grandstanding, where PBXVI is actually using his own god to cover up for the mistakes of prior Church policy. So it's not just Pagans that he is blaming, it's his own infallible god. Just think, one of these days, there might be another pontiff asking his god why he was so silent during the reign of Ratzinger.

On 5/30/2006 07:13:47
Dave H wrote

Popes and Pagans

Hail Bjorngrimnir: This particular Pope seems to have it in for us pagan types: perhaps it was his former job or something that made him so sensitive. It kinda insulted me too: what chutzpah! (Appropriately Yiddish...) Be well, Dave H.

On 5/30/2006 08:54:28
Bjorngrimnir wrote

Howdy back, Dave! Do you think if I pour a libation of mead for Yahweh, Jesus, and the late Pope, that they might all get together and smack B16 with a rubber chicken? I'd pour the libation to our gods, but you know how they smack, and what they smack with, and I really don't want the poor guy hurt that badly...just a good smack with a rubber chicken would suffice.

On 5/30/2006 10:48:23
Ron wrote

Then you'll probably want to pour that libation to Terry Gilliam.

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