So now I'm a Nazi??

[Ian Shlasko]

Wow... You know, I was pretty much in the "live and let live" camp until now... But after a speech like that... #@&* the pope. Normally I'd dress this up in some flowery language for my own personal amusement... But it's Friday morning, and a public figure has invoked Godwin's Law against me... So I say this in no uncertain terms to the 99% of you who can guess what the garbled word would be... #%)& the pope.

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[Lost User]

You might enjoy reading this - A Pope in a Schismatic Isle[^].

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[Lost User]

I'm as athiest as the next guy ( ;) ), but I still admired John Paul II. His support for the Polish Solidarity movement, his plain-spoken humanity and what seemed, at least, to be an open, good soul... Contrast that to the ex Nazi youth who holds the office now. And this asshole has the nerve to call others 'nazis'? Well... he'd be the one to know, I suppose, given his own personal experience.

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[Lost User]

Same here. :thumbsup:

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[Distind]

I'll agree with that, he even made a few steps of dragging the church forward, not that it got all that far, but still. Then the next guy they pick is was freaking Nazi, literally. I was a bit stumped after John Paul's good publicity that they went with him, but I thinking they did it just to turn every argument against him into an instant godwin.

[Single Step Debugger]

LabVIEWstuff wrote:

witch burning

This has always been somehow underestimated crime. I read somewhere that in the Western Europe during the dark ages some 6 million women and girls have been burn on the stake.

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[Single Step Debugger]

Totally agree he also found a way to smooth out the redundant issues between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. I’m not a believer but I respect the guy.

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[fjdiewornncalwe]

John Paul II was a pope, but more of a political leader than a religious one. He seemed to be all about getting along with other people instead of poking them with a stick.

[Lost User]

Source?

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[Single Step Debugger]

My memories, so nothing reliable and the results google gives me on the subject are more related to the Holocaust.

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[OriginalGriff]

1.21 Gigawatts wrote:

And the religionists moan about some atheists getting all 'shouty'. Maybe some are getting 'shouty' to try and redress the balance?

You'd have to get bloody 'shouty' to balance Ian Paisley! :laugh:

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[OriginalGriff]

According to Kirk Durston, National Director, New Scholars Society: The most realistic figure for the Spanish Inquisition puts the total killed from AD1480 to AD1808 at up to 31,912. Finally, records indicate that the number of "witches" killed may be over 30,000. Some argue that records don't tell everything and suggest that maybe even 100,000 were killed. These three events, totaling over 264,000 killed, are thought to be the largest atrocities perpetrated by one or another form of Christendom. Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100312111733AArVgvK[^] I remember this came up on QI some time ago, and their researchers are pretty good!

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[Single Step Debugger]

Thanks, I stand corrected. Is this includes only the Spanish Inquisition or also the victims in the rest of the Europe?

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[Lost User]

LabVIEWstuff wrote:

Apparently atheism is something the Nazi's preached, ergo all Atheists are Nazi's

And your response is to imply that all Catholics are child abusers.

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[RichardM1]

LabVIEWstuff wrote:

Apparently atheism is something the Nazi's preached, ergo all Atheists are Nazi's:

Apparently Christianity is something bigots preached, ergo all Christians are bigots: :rolleyes:

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[RichardM1]

or Ian Shlasko ...

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

If the mitre fits... In fact that's not what he said at all - you chose to read it that way which is, presumably, why you got down voted.

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[Lost User]

digital man wrote:

why you got down voted.

I take downvotes on the chin. I don't know whether you downvoted me or not, but at least you had the courage to challenge me.

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

Richard MacCutchan wrote:

I take downvotes on the chin

Best way, really. It's only cyberspace: you can't take it seriously.

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[Lost User]

digital man wrote:

you can't take it seriously.

You mean this is all a big joke? :laugh:

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