Quote from Pope: Do you find it disturbing?

[scorpion da black]

When was that then?
I think you'll find that England (do you mean the UK?) makes more efforts than almost any other non-Muslim country to accommodate Islam. That fact that the dozens of other faiths in the UK didn't seem to require the same effort or cause the same problems is worrying though.

yes the UK has some of the most friendly, open and fair system.

but you must have heard about the fights between people, assaults on Muslims and vanadalising Islamic tombs.

that was carried out by fascist English.

 

[Tsuyoiko]

"for freedom and the spread of the Holy Roman Catholic Church."

I find it too unsurprising to be really disturbing. What interests me more is the contradiction. How can someone fight simultaneously for both freedom and the spread of Catholicism?

 

[Mars Man]

I swear I saw the rabbit in that photo the last time I was back home on Mars...or was it in my dreams last night?

Anyway, I somehow managed to miss that particular point too. At the same time, however, if we were to lean on some words that had been penned, at least in the exemplar Christian text that made its way down to us, we could see where that may have come from...in that Yeshua is said to have said, in the account bearing the name John, that 'he truth will set one free.'

If we were to grant that the Pope believed the Roman Catholic Church to be 'The Truth,' then perhaps we could at least reconcile the two.

However...we know that that's not the case, because the Jehovah's Witnesses have already got a copyright on that title, 'The Truth'...do they not?

 

[Skullcrushergurl]

Most definately disturbing,but just a tad.

 

[Haruspex]

However...we know that that's not the case, because the Jehovah's Witnesses have already got a copyright on that title, 'The Truth'...do they not?

Haha its "semi-offtopic" well our neighbors are Witnesses of Jehova, so my grandfather doesn't speak Hungarian, as he's Armenian, but he speaks Russian, so our neighbor somehow found out about it, and guess what, one day he bloody gave my grandfather a copy of Watchtower... in Russian. He must have ordered it. Now thats desperate.

Regarding the topic: Whats disturbing about encouraging martyrdom? Its pretty much a base element of Catholicism.

 

[bebopdobop]

I think many quotes are taken out of context. I am not Catholic, but I think what the Pope was alluding to, was not that they should do violence and spill blood, but that they should be willing to let their own blood be spilled should violence be done against them. Turning the other cheek, if you will. That they should be steadfast in their faith, should anyone seek to destroy them for their faith.