http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304 Full story here (well not full story, details aren't there yet.
The first time in 600 years that a pope voluntarily resigns.
Sorry if this isn't in the right forum.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304 Full story here (well not full story, details aren't there yet.
The first time in 600 years that a pope voluntarily resigns.
Sorry if this isn't in the right forum.
Good riddance. Ratzinger is a cruel zealot who protected child rapists as head of the inquisition and utterly failed to appropriately recognise these crimes when they became public.
Sound opinion, man.
Well, he said he was praying to God and consulting his conscience, and both pretty much told him that he is too old to continue.
Not that I can't understand him. Dealing with baseless and stupid opinions like Ferret's or BOM's on a daily basis must be incredibly frustrating.
Don't bother. He must have had personal problems with the church, the opinion itself is just plain bs.
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Originally Posted by A.J.P. TaylorOriginally Posted by Miel Cools
Cň am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
A mhaireas buan gu brŕth?
Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
Mar dhěthein buaile fŕs,Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sěos,'S nach tog a' ghrian an ŕird.
Originally Posted by Jörg FriedrichOriginally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
Jajem ssoref is m'n korewE goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtompWer niks is, hot kawsones
Most charitable organizations don't enable, conceal, and protect child molesters/rapists or enslave women. This isn't even getting into its fight against contraception and complicating the struggle against HIV. It's charitable giving is the saving grace of the institution considering how many other lives it has ruined.
On topic, I don't see that it's unreasonable for the Pope to resign due to advanced age and declining health. I think it's actually sort of humble to be able to admit when one is no longer capable of adequately being the voice of God, and resigning so that someone more vigorous can replace him. Because a senile, unintelligible sick Pope does the Catholic Church no favors.
Of course is not unreasonable for the Pope to resign.The fact is that Catholics believe him to be God's representative on Earth, that's why something like this is extremely rare; to simply resign does not combine well with the idea of a divine mandate.Indeed, the rarity of a thing like this begs the question if something else is going on; the Church is ripe with political machinations.
You could donate the Aposotolic Palace as an Orphanage for the world's children and use the money from all the expensive clothes and jewelry and other unimportant to do something good rather than rape little boys and then protect the perpetrators from the punishment they deserve.
It would also help eliminate the idea that all the good things in life come from an imaginary man in the sky and all the bad things are just part of his plan no matter how ed up it is.
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you can do that? How can God's representative on earth resign? Was he fired by God? Or is it mutual?
Thema Devia...perhaps?Sorry if this isn't in the right forum.
Now let us all quietly shed a tear for Ratzinger's departure. And ask for him the Lord's forgiveness with the following hymn:
Oh Lord, please don't burn us.
Don't grill or toast Your flock.
Don't put us on the barbecue
Or simmer us in stock.
Don't braise or bake or boil us
Or stir-fry us in a wok.
Oh, please don't lightly poach us
Or baste us with hot fat.
Don't fricassee or roast us
Or boil us in a vat,
And please don't stick Thy servants, Lord,
In a Rotissomat.
he got too old for the pool parties
Not from the third world, that is a tired racist excuse and you should be ashamed for using it. Why should you be ashamed? You assumed because he was Ghanan he was third world. The man speaks seven maybe less languages but not much more than less and you assume because he is african he is an idiot?
Do you speak seven languages? Do you speak fluent ghanan, English and Latin to name three? He speaks more.
Idiocy and a vast ignorant and stupid stance towards science is matter of fact? Not understanding basic facts and knowledge is just part of what is going on?
THat is cool are you part of that deliberate ignorance too or is it just them?
Maybe I did, got to old for the rape parties too?
Seven...no. I speak fluent English, German, Russian, conversational Spanish and Estonian not to put too fine a point on it. So 3 3/4? Not seven but if we are using the amount of languages one knows to measure "worldliness" I probably rank pretty good compared to most people...including you and I have no humiliation that there is a cardinal who knows more than languages than me. In addition "Ghanian" is not a language. Ghana is a country made up of many different linguistic groups. His native tongue if I am correct is called Nzema and he probably knows some other languages in Ghana in addition to that.
Tell me, is it racist to know what their cultural attitudes are Danny? Or to know that this world is not full of enlightened people and that it is a mean and intolerant place? Their societal values are not friendly to homosexuality. In fact this is a norm in most of the world...not just Africa. The liberal societies of this world only started to become friendly very very recently. So recognizing a reality is not racist. If anyone here is being ethno or culture centric it would be you because you were surprised....absolutely surprised that people in the world exist who don't share your liberal opinions on the matter. Let's see latin America isn't too friendly to it, many Eastern Europeans are not fans of homosexuals to put it lightly, in Russia iGay Pride parades have been banned for a century in Moscow. In China it is considered a mental disease by the regime, and they hang them in parts of Africa...and I am sure we are all familiar of their stance on the issue in the Arab world is. In addition to this he is a Cardinal. Homosexuality is considered a sin...along with premarital sex, lying, cheating, and murder among other things. What do you want from the catholic church? To just throw away everything they have stood for centuries for because it what the progressive masses of a few countries who aren't even catholic want? Why do you care? You are not even catholic.
Good job trying to paint me as something I'm not.
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