I just cannot let Pope Benedict get away with his nonsense; I need to say something.
In a New York Times article entitled “Pope Tells Clergy in Angola to Work Against belief in Witchcraft” the Pope makes light of Angolan’s belief in occult powers and demons while promoting Catholicism with its own mumbo jumbo beliefs; this on top of telling them condoms do not help prevent AIDS; how can Angolans take anything this man says with any modicum of seriousness.
The Pope condemned the fact that Angolans are so fearful of evil spirits that they wrongly condemn innocent children and the elderly for being possessed by demons. Excuse me dude, but did not the Church do the very same things throughout its history. Don’t you still have an “exorcism” ceremony in your bag of religious tricks?
The Pope took on the issue of “sorcery” in sub-Saharan Africa and it is an issue that needs to be dealt with but not by converting them to a religion that uses some of the same beliefs and practices as sorcery does.
All the Pope is saying is that my “joojoo” is stronger than your “joojoo” – whooptidoo!
He is not teaching them reality and how to deal with reality and explaining how bad things sometimes happen and how they are dealt with in the civilized world. No, the Pope is telling them that their evil demons do not exist, they are figments of their imaginations, Catholics on the other hand know that it is the “devil” that is behind all those bad happenings and they need to spray holy water and blow holy incense around to make things better.
Benedict is visiting places like Africa because that is where the new Catholics are coming from. As in my previous blogs, I explained how Benedict needs his Church populated by people that believe in his brand of superstition and what better than people already steeped in superstition just getting a more organized form of it.
In a New York Times article entitled “Pope Tells Clergy in Angola to Work Against belief in Witchcraft” the Pope makes light of Angolan’s belief in occult powers and demons while promoting Catholicism with its own mumbo jumbo beliefs; this on top of telling them condoms do not help prevent AIDS; how can Angolans take anything this man says with any modicum of seriousness.
The Pope condemned the fact that Angolans are so fearful of evil spirits that they wrongly condemn innocent children and the elderly for being possessed by demons. Excuse me dude, but did not the Church do the very same things throughout its history. Don’t you still have an “exorcism” ceremony in your bag of religious tricks?
The Pope took on the issue of “sorcery” in sub-Saharan Africa and it is an issue that needs to be dealt with but not by converting them to a religion that uses some of the same beliefs and practices as sorcery does.
All the Pope is saying is that my “joojoo” is stronger than your “joojoo” – whooptidoo!
He is not teaching them reality and how to deal with reality and explaining how bad things sometimes happen and how they are dealt with in the civilized world. No, the Pope is telling them that their evil demons do not exist, they are figments of their imaginations, Catholics on the other hand know that it is the “devil” that is behind all those bad happenings and they need to spray holy water and blow holy incense around to make things better.
Benedict is visiting places like Africa because that is where the new Catholics are coming from. As in my previous blogs, I explained how Benedict needs his Church populated by people that believe in his brand of superstition and what better than people already steeped in superstition just getting a more organized form of it.
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