Saturday, September 18, 2010

THE POPE: Visit to the UK...

Pope Benedict is on a state visit to the UK and has been drawing some pretty good crowds; not as large as Pope John Paul drew, but still pretty large for a secular country.

The Pope apologized for the priestly sex abuse debacle but his apologies all ring hollow and insincere as he has not moved to punish the bishops that allowed these abuses to go on after learning of them and has not instituted rules and regulations that would prevent those abuses from ever happening again. In fact, he seemed puzzled how priests that swear before God to be good representatives of Jesus on earth, behave in such despicable ways. The reason he is so puzzled is because the entire Vatican is made up of very naïve people that don’t have a lick of sense when it comes to the real world and should not be representatives of anything especially Jesus and should stay the hell away from kids – always!

In his initial speech in Scotland, the Pope thanked England for standing up to that Nazi Hitler who wished to eradicate God from society. Here again, I think that the speech was written by somebody other than the Pope, but to not know your historical facts makes him and his speech writer just plain stupid.

Hitler was a Catholic and many members of the Nazi party were Catholics. In fact many German Catholics supported Hitler whole heartedly. Pope Benedict was a member of the Hitler Youth Corps when he was 14 but now says he was forced to join and his father never liked Hitler anyway, so there!

Hell, Pope Pius XII who was pope during WWII has been accused of being a Nazi Pope because he did not vigorously oppose the Nazi regime and did little to protect the Jews from the extermination plan he knew Hitler had initiated. No, Pope Pius XII is up for sainthood – figure that one out will you?

Hell, the Church encouraged anti-Semitism in past history as killing the Jesus murderes. Even Martin Luther (German) preached against the Jews. Hell, its not atheism that condemned the Jews, it was Christianity you morons!

The Pope was also condemning the “aggressive secularism” that is going on in Europe and especially the UK. Many British writers no longer just accept religion and religious people as equals and treat them with respect, no, they tell it like it is and don’t mince any words calling religion and religious followers as stupid for believing in fairy tales and superstitions; Benedict does not like that kind of grownup talk.

I realize that he is taking an aggressive stance at winning back some of the respect the Vatican lost in the priestly sex scandals but realistically he knows he will always have those blind followers who see no Vatican evil no matter what the evidence. He realizes and has said so in the past, that the Catholic population will shrink as those who are aware of what is going on in the Church leave the faith and try to find another religious denomination that will not be so arrogant, naïve and so full of itself. And yet the pope will not change and the Church will not change even though it has in the past and needs to right now – is that stubborn or plain stupid?

I am surprised that there has not been a larger protest against the pope in the UK where many if not most, oppose the Vatican views on social issues such as banning condom use in AIDS stricken Africa and other such gems.

More on his visit later…

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