Pope says Gay marriage is 'evil'

[Cleo]

IMO the Pope and religion in general is evil.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe...eut/index.html
Personally I'm hoping that the Pope will hurry up and drop dead.

[Kinky]

my motto is "religion is the root of ALL evil"

[MadMax]

"It's OK for our priests to molest little boys, and we'll go to great lengths to protect them when they do, but adult men having sex with other adult men is EVIL."

When I see shit like this I like to remember the Pope (Pius IX or something) from about a thousand years ago who was beaten to death in the street by the enraged husband of a woman he was banging. Kinda sums up the hipocrisy of Catholicism all in one go.

[Useless]

I wish I could remember who said, 'I was raised Catholic. That's why I don't believe in God.'

[Greenguy]

likes cock - ok by me.

says fuck whoever wants to be fucked by you & live in

[SirMoby]

I wonder how he'd feel if Sponge Bob Square Pants married Mickey Mouse.

[ecchi]

Cleo, I'm curious. On several threads you have expressed a desire for the Pope's speedy demise. What makes you think that the next one will will be any different ?

[Cleo]

I have absolutely no hope, or actually could care at all, that the next pope will be any less of a backwards superstitious leader of their religious cult.

I just hope the next one has better health so I don't have to constantly hear about when the pope's last poop was and what his emotional state was at the time of his poop or food intake was.

Basically I could care less if he lives or dies I'm just sick of hearing about it.

[Mishi]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I have absolutely no hope, or actually could care at all, that the next pope will be any less of a backwards superstitious leader of their religious cult.

I just hope the next one has better health so I don't have to constantly hear about when the pope's last poop was and what his emotional state was at the time of his poop or food intake was.

Basically I could care less if he lives or dies I'm just sick of hearing about it.

This is why I get all my news from Jon Stewart.

[ArtWilliams]

What amazes me is that the Pope says something AND the media reports. Here in Toronto Christians are a minority, let alone Catholics. I don't hear the hear of the Greek Orthodoxs or some Muslim group on the news at the top of the hour. Guess JP2 has a good press agent!! LOL

... Art

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

What amazes me is that the Pope says something AND the media reports. Here in Toronto Christians are a minority, let alone Catholics. I don't hear the hear of the Greek Orthodoxs or some Muslim group on the news at the top of the hour. Guess JP2 has a good press agent!! LOL

... Art

what's even funnier is that the news stations are giving "live pictures" of the side of the builing at the hospital where he is, just the side of a building with some dirty windows, nothing else...

[docholly]

what's even funnier is that the news stations are giving "live pictures" of the side of the builing at the hospital where he is, just the side of a building with some dirty windows, nothing else...

To you and I, it's just specks of dirt, but to true believers they form a picture of the blessed virgin.

[Fonz]

And he's back in the hospital....

I think his candle is almost blown out...

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by Fonz

And he's back in the hospital....

I think his candle is almost blown out...

let us all pray... oh wait that would be silly

[Cleo]

Damn I just turned on the TV and the pope is all over it.

Hello, I could care less what is up with the pope and his poop. This isn't news unless they also want to start reporting all the other so called religious leader's daily poop reports.

Damn, hurry up and die so that I don't have to listen to this crap any more.

[Greenguy]

He'll die & his last public comments are "Gay marriage is evil" - you watch - that'll be spun on the news so that he said it with his dying breath

[Sarah_Jayne]

what anyone that can never even have a straight marriage knows about it beats me.

[DeniseAWC]

Over the millennia (big word huh) untold thousands, if not millions have been slaughtered in the name of god, which curiously never comes directly from his mouth, but from the mouth of just another mortal.

Let's get back to basics and start worshiping trees, nature, the sky, the sun and such. Truely, if there is/was a god, then these are the tings we should hold dear to us, not child-molesting wankers who have made a career decision to be a 'holy man' (or woman or whatever)

It's no wonder he makes such stupid statements though, me must realise that he, and those that will surely follow him has increasingly little relevance to us.

I say let him show his worth and value. Let the Pope start healing the planet, cleansing the toxic pollutants in our seas reivers and oceans, sort out the ozone problem and our reliance on fossil fuels. Then he can move onto 3rd world debt, disease, famine and so on.

Once he's done that he will have earned the right to share his opinion and have it listened to, until then, while he continues to live in a Palace in his own little tax-free kingdom being carried around by shirt-lifting monkeys in a f****g chair, he should shut the f*** up and mind his own damned business.

(phew, it's good to have a rant once in a while!)

[ecchi]

RE- "Let's get back to basics and start worshiping trees, nature, the sky, the sun and such" It is religion that causes the killing etc, not who you worship. If we worshipped nature the "tree worshippers" would start to kill the "sky worshippers" and the "sun worshippers" would split into two groups with slightly different views on how to worship the sun, and start fighting each other.

[ecchi]

Oh yeah, and the news would be full of reports on the bad health of the head of the "nature worshippers" with live coverage from the bottom of the tree he is in.

[Wenchy]

Originally Posted by ecchi

RE- "Let's get back to basics and start worshiping trees, nature, the sky, the sun and such" It is religion that causes the killing etc, not who you worship. If we worshipped nature the "tree worshippers" would start to kill the "sky worshippers" and the "sun worshippers" would split into two groups with slightly different views on how to worship the sun, and start fighting each other.

I'm afraid I have to disagree, ecchi... and being a pagan myself, I believe I have informed grounds on which to do so. The nice thing about being a pagan is that we only have one hard and fast rule pertaining to not doing harm to others. Beyond that, we are free to choose what/whom, when, where, and how we practice, down to writing our own customized grimoires (personal "bibles").

But the best part about practicing the Craft is tolerance... you'll never hear a true witch running down another person's religious preferences. Unlike other "religions" that don't follow the same tolerance guidelines, I just don't see wars cropping up between nature worshipping factions.

Of course that's just my 2 cents. Your mileage may vary

[DeniseAWC]

Originally Posted by ecchi

RE- "Let's get back to basics and start worshiping trees, nature, the sky, the sun and such" It is religion that causes the killing etc, not who you worship. If we worshipped nature the "tree worshippers" would start to kill the "sky worshippers" and the "sun worshippers" would split into two groups with slightly different views on how to worship the sun, and start fighting each other.

I'd only advocate becoming a 'Winchester .357 Underlever Mod 94AS' worshiper and those sun worshipers can bring it on!

lol

[Theproofhouse]

Never read so much crap posts on a board in all of my internet life.

[ecchi]

Wow Theproofhouse, you must be new to message boards, this thread is only a baby in the "crap posts" department. I have seen plenty of threads a lot worse than this (even started a few myself).

[ecchi]

Wenchy, just having a rule ("The nice thing about being a pagan is that we only have one hard and fast rule pertaining to not doing harm to others") does not mean people will live by it. The Christians have a "Thou shall not kill" rule, it did not stop the crusades, and the Muslim religion has a similar rule which did not stop 9/11. The only way you can claim that your followers do no harm is if you have a policy of brainwashing your followers. And even then it won't stop the violence. Because even if your religion were to brainwash it's followers, that does not stop followers of a different religion from beating the shit out of your followers for worshipping trees in "the wrong way", it just makes your followers easier to kill.