Problems with Pope Benedict
17th July 2009
by This Old Brit
Press reports are saying that former Hitler Youth Movement member and current pretender to the post of Jesus Christ’s personal, infallible representative right here on earth, Pope Benedict the umpteenth (previously known as Joseph Alois Ratzinger), has taken a tumble and broken his wrist.
Sad to say, no mention’s been made of the pompous, privileged, pampered, poxy, hypocritical, holier-than-thou-and-the-rest-of-us, high rolling, high flyer’s neck.
Awful ain’t it?
Read the rest of the report regarding religious reprobate, Ratzi the Nazi, right here.
(Cross posted from across at How This Old Brit Sees It)
July 17th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Funny how religious leaders always seem to live in extravagant luxury — not for their own sake, of course, but for “the glory of God.”
The greatest scam in human history.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Ratzinger was a huge mistake for the Catholic Church.
Obviously those people know nothing at all about marketing a leader to a generation of twittering nitwits whose only option is to judge a book solely by it’s cover since they’ve never actually opened one.
Still the leader of a few million Catholics deserves a perk or two more than over paid belly button lint picking academics who couldn’t lead anything larger than a Scout troop out of Central Park with a compass, a GPS, a “follow the yellow brick road” park map and a motorcycle escort.
Talk about “scams”…..
July 18th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Ratzo’s a bit like Cheney, really. He was given the job of oganising the search for the best candidate to fill a certain job vacancy ~~ the rest, as they say, is history.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:31 am
In graduate school, I studied liberation theology as a social movement, and Ratzi plays a prominent role as enforcer (of the traditional non-liberation theology) — at one point silencing for a year Leonardo Boff, one of the key liberation theorists and frequent critics of the church hierarchy. So I will always regard Ratzi as one of the worst of the “church power” sort. It would be an understatement to say that they know nothing of the teachings of the man they claim to follow.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
* It would be an understatement to say that they know nothing of the teachings of the man they claim to follow. *
Amen to that.
July 19th, 2009 at 2:22 am
If it feels good do it. God doesn’t exist and if he did he wouldn’t give a rat’s ass anyway.
“liberation” theology…
July 19th, 2009 at 9:41 am
If it feels good do it.
Actually, that seems to be the philosophy of all these right wing conservative Republicans like Sanford, Vitter, Ensign etc.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:06 am
My post wasn’t about God, brt. Not any god. It was about a pope. A man.
July 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Timothy Shortell, Ph.D.–
Not just Boff, but also other L.T. clerics throughout the rest of Latin America, including El Salvador. I’ve always thought it was absolutely unforgivable how John Paul II and then-Cardinal Ratzinger used the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador as an opportunity to undermine Romero’s fellow liberation theologians, effectively siding with the assassins, mass murderers, and nun-rapists who ran El Salvador’s government at the time.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Funny you should mention that, G. I wrote my dissertation on the Catholic Church in El Salvador during the Romero years. The church hierarchy has a long history in the region siding with repressive governments. It is part of the global church’s emphasis on telling the poor to accept poverty (”good for the soul”), which makes the lavishness of the papal court all the more unseemly.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Right.
A good analogy might be pollyannic upside down and backwards “thinkers” (left wing professors) sipping latte and driving Mercedes while doers-the people who actually perform a useful service in this country-are standing in line for the bus.
Oh the humanity…..!!!! :+)
August 7th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Er… was that supposed to be a defense of the practice of assassinating archbishops and raping nuns who practice liberation theology?