SWIM Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4169...bile_afp416.jpg Hmmm..... Ever notice the pope, leader of one of the largest sects of the xtianity cult, seems to have LOTS of faith lol... Bullet proof vehicles are NOT cheap either, and this one is a mercedes... Screw the hungry, just keep de ole bullets off me eh? So much for "faith"... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereticzero Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Why do birds fly upside down over the Vatican? It ain't worth shitting on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWIM Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 Why do birds fly upside down over the Vatican? It ain't worth shitting on. LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Captain Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 I have to wonder if the upper echelons of RCC have believed any of that stuff for the last 1000 years. I get the feeling they probably have all the "proof" they'll ever need in some Vatican vault and they just rule the masses for kicks now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Harley Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Turks... that's why it's bullet proof... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlerman Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 You must be very young SWIM. May 13, 1981 there was an assassination attempt on John Paul ll's life. http://video.aol.com/video-detail/may-13-1...l-ii/3142987327 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Harley Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hence... TURKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted February 28, 2008 Super Moderator Share Posted February 28, 2008 http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4169...bile_afp416.jpg So much for "faith"... LOL It's the common people that live by faith. The leaders know better. That's how they became leaders. Besides, the RCC is always involved in some political upheaval somewhere and he's a political target. He knows god can't stop a bullet. - Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlerman Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hence... TURKS! Turkler degel. Bir Turk Then again, maybe it was a Turkish conspiracy... BTW, the reason he got shot was because he didn't want tight security around him. It was after that they created the popemobile, which I always thought seemed rather clunky compared to the batmobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev R Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 JP II not only proved that faith doesn't make you bulletproof, but for us younger folks he also was able to demonstrate that the process of selecting a new pope is a pain in the ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWIM Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 JP II not only proved that faith doesn't make you bulletproof, but for us younger folks he also was able to demonstrate that the process of selecting a new pope is a pain in the ass. And such a damned aweful waste of time and money, tax free too... All for what? More blah blah bullshit from another old guy... Just think of the research that could be done with all the money wasted on religion, hell the RCC alone could end world hunger by disbanding and distributing the funds in a correct manner... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Captain Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 But Swim that agonizing hunger that leaves children laying on the ground lest they faint when standing isn't a real problem! The lack of missionaries and schools converting them is the real tragedy, give more tithes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWIM Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 But Swim that agonizing hunger that leaves children laying on the ground lest they faint when standing isn't a real problem! The lack of missionaries and schools converting them is the real tragedy, give more tithes! Indeed! Glory... err... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Captain Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 But Swim that agonizing hunger that leaves children laying on the ground lest they faint when standing isn't a real problem! The lack of missionaries and schools converting them is the real tragedy, give more tithes! Indeed! Glory... err... From the Brothers Karamazov: Listen! If all must suffer to pay for the eternal harmony, what have childrento do with it, tell me, please? It's beyond all comprehension why they should suffer, and why they should pay for the harmony. Why should they, too, furnish material to enrich the soil for the harmony of the future? I understand solidarity in sin among men. I understand solidarity in retribution, too; but there can be no such solidarity with children. And if it is really true that they must share responsibility for all their fathers' crimes, such a truth is not of this world and is beyond my comprehension. Some jester will say, perhaps, that the child would have grown up and have sinned, but you see he didn't grow up, he was torn to pieces by the dogs, at eight years old. Oh, Alyosha, I am not blaspheming! I understand, of course, what an upheaval of the universe it will be when everything in heaven and earth blends in one hymn of praise and everything that lives and has lived cries aloud: 'Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed.' When the mother embraces the fiend who threw her child to the dogs, and all three cry aloud with tears, 'Thou art just, O Lord!' then, of course, the crown of knowledge will be reached and all will be made clear. But what pulls me up here is that I can't accept that harmony. And while I am on earth, I make haste to take my own measures. You see, Alyosha, perhaps it really may happen that if I live to that moment, or rise again to see it, I, too, perhaps, may cry aloud with the rest, looking at the mother embracing the child's torturer, 'Thou art just, O Lord!' but I don't want to cry aloud then. While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'! It's not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for. They must be atoned for, or there can be no harmony. But how? How are you going to atone for them? Is it possible? By their being avenged? But what do I care for avenging them? What do I care for a hell for oppressors? What good can hell do, since those children have already been tortured? And what becomes of harmony, if there is hell? I want to forgive. I want to embrace. I don't want more suffering. And if the sufferings of children go to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price. I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs! She dare not forgive him! Let her forgive him for herself, if she will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother's heart. But the sufferings of her tortured child she has no right to forgive; she dare not forgive the torturer, even if the child were to forgive him! And if that is so, if they dare not forgive, what becomes of harmony? Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev R Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Just think of the research that could be done with all the money wasted on religion, hell the RCC alone could end world hunger by disbanding and distributing the funds in a correct manner... Absolutely. I wonder how many people a golden Buddha could feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWIM Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 You must be very young SWIM. May 13, 1981 there was an assassination attempt on John Paul ll's life. http://video.aol.com/video-detail/may-13-1...l-ii/3142987327 Naw, I am 46. I knew about that too, but still, isn't faith supposed to protect them? Shouldn't the assaination attempt be a test of faith? LOL Yup, roll up the bullet proof glass... just in case... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereticzero Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 The Pope mobile is bullet proof so the Pope cannot shoot his way out and escape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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