Why the posts about the Pope?

[Larry H. Smith]

...attack a man who was wearing a dress? ;-)

 

[kski]

that's so funny!

 

[kski]

Ummm....excuse me?? The pedophiles or whatever way it's spelled, keep coming out. There was not just a few, like one poster likes to pretend, there are thousands and thousands more coming. And remember hitler and the other pope? Need I say more? History is filled will horrible mistreatment of people and domination by the catholic church. Finally things are coming out in the open and they are being exposed for the hypocrites they are! Funny how the pope and his gang never bring honor to God, the one they are "supposed" to be serving! They are bringing dishonor and also shame to religion but "praise" to themselves. Like I said, pope 2 was just a man. A human like you and I and there is no need to worship him in life or death. Humans should not be worshipped period. The truth hurts but it lives on and secrets always come out eventually.

 

[kski]

Hee hee hee.....
Post off!

 

[kski]

what'du talkin 'bout Willis? I don't know who you are or who you directed that comment to but it couldn't be me. And what do dogs have to do with it?

 

[Glen Barrington]

Unless you are addressing Many Bloody Americans, but they aren't likely to pay any attention until you learn something about the English language. Bashing is negative, so if Americans Bash the Bible they are speaking negatively about it. However if they speak positively about it, it most definitely NOT bashing.

Really, you should know this stuff by now.

Onward! Christian Soldiers!

The US is absolutely crammed with frothing religious lunatics, and
they LOVE to export their bible/torah bashing to the rest of
whether we want it or not.

And we don't.

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem
to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself
in now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

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Stop the Insanity!
Diet and Exercise Kills!

 

[a t o m i c]

Unless you are addressing Many Bloody Americans, but they aren't
likely to pay any attention until you learn something about the
English language. Bashing is negative, so if Americans Bash the
Bible they are speaking negatively about it. However if they speak
positively about it, it most definitely NOT bashing.

Really, you should know this stuff by now.

Onward! Christian Soldiers!

"Bible bashing" is a long established colloquialism with a well known meaning.

Here it is used in a typical context:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/23/1074732570045.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and

then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

 

[a t o m i c]

There were a lot of pro Bush posts before the election in the US,
and many anti Bush posts after the election, so I am not surprised
to see the Pope posts, and the string of religious ranting and
raving that goes along with that kind of thing.

As I said - too many bloody Americans! DPreview isn't an American website, you know.

The Forum Admins should probably jump in and keep most off topic
post to a minimum (since we don't have volunteer forum moderators),
but then DPR wouldn't have reached 10 million posts would it, a
good 1/4 of the posts here are off topic, or idiots arguing about
nothing, but it certainly keeps the daily post records in the high
numbers ;-)

Banning Americans would probably be more effective.

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and

then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

 

[a t o m i c]

The Pope sanctioned or at best turned a blind eye to the plight of
non-europeans in Africa and Central America.

"Waiter, please get me some of what Bruce is having...."

What about all those thousands of catholic people who give up their
lives in missionary work? Comabating issues & problems like famine,
lack of water, hygiene, education, etc; such humanitarian aid has
been going on silently for ages.

Is the purpose of missionary work to be charitable or to recruit new sla... members?

He abetted in priests
and nuns abusing children.

Get your facts stright. JP2 not only publicly condemned such abuse,
he also came down harshly. Do a Google.

Not harshly enough.

Teh catholic church was a major factor
in the Rwandan genocide.

??? What have you been smoking (besides vitriol & resentment)?

A tragic record of oppresion of women's and minority rights.

??? You must be joking. Ethnic minorities around the world
(Palestinians, Timor Est, Iraqi Shi'ites, etc) have all been openly
grateful to JP2's outspoken efforts to promotes their civil rights.
This is not to mention voluntary work by thousands of catholics
around the globe.

As I said, charuty with an alterior motive is not charity at all.

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and

then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

 

[a t o m i c]

Try 'paedophile'. You sound like me when I correct a spelling and
make a mistake myself, LOL.

Either is fine, actually.

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and

then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

 

[a t o m i c]

Pedophile - American English
Pædophile - British English.

What is "British English"? Do you mean English?

DP review - run and owned by a Brit.
Served from the U.S. on U.S. MS windows servers.

Not always and not entirely.

Either way I have a nice sharp Ax/Axe ready to slice off any
Pedophile's masculinity if they lay a hand on any of my kids.

Well aren't you a clever boy? Why would a pedophile deserve any any worse punishment than anyone else?

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and

then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

 

[a t o m i c]

--
--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and

then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

 

[Classic Man]

The Pope sanctioned or at best turned a blind eye to the plight of
non-europeans in Africa and Central America.

"Waiter, please get me some of what Bruce is having...."

What about all those thousands of catholic people who give up their
lives in missionary work? Comabating issues & problems like famine,
lack of water, hygiene, education, etc; such humanitarian aid has
been going on silently for ages.

Is the purpose of missionary work to be charitable or to recruit
new sla... members?

You haven't got a clue, atomic. Most missionary work is not aimed at all at trying to convert people to catholicism. It is all humanitarian work.

I have family members who have given up their life to do it.

A relative of mine is a nun in Pakistan. She's been there for more than 2 decades, & she's never attempted to convert anyone. For one simple reason: there is too much work to be done. Threal scope is humanitarian aid, period.

He abetted in priests
and nuns abusing children.

Get your facts stright. JP2 not only publicly condemned such abuse,
he also came down harshly. Do a Google.

Not harshly enough.

What is "enough"? Is ther ever an "enough"?

 

[gingerbaker]

Just to correct a popular misconception: There were very few
"pedophile" priests revealed in the recent scandal. Pedophelia is
a clinical mental disease. The vast majority of offenses were
committed against teen-age and older young men by predatory
homosexual priests.

Bruce

Are you saying the problem was a problem of homosexuals, not Priests?

Because they committed acts upon members of the same sex does not necessarily mean that they were homosexuals.

Think of all that goes on in prisons, or the tales of deprivation resulting in homosexual acts by British sailors, or at all-male schools. The situation endured by Priests is similar, although obviously not identical.

One must be very careful not to assume that heterosexual men commit relatively fewer depraved acts then homosexuals, because that is not known to be the case.

Perhaps I am insinuating too much from your reply, but I truly detest the ploy of the anti-gay right to turn the deplorable actions of Priests and the RC church, into yet another instance of gay bashing.

Sorry if I misinterpreted your intent - I am (obviously) very sensitive on the subject.

 

[Brian]

What is "British English"? Do you mean English?

No, I mean British English. I know it is diffucult for some people to grasp the concept of having multiple flavors of English, but here are a couple of sites that many help you come to terms.

http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary
http://www.antimoon.com/terms/british_english.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English
http://www.pyxidium.co.uk/dictionary/

Notice how I added in some UK sites to support this?

If you have trouble with this, I can give you some information on some support groups.

DP review - run and owned by a Brit.
Served from the U.S. on U.S. MS windows servers.

Not always and not entirely.

Sorry, don't follow you here. Is it that Phil is not always a Brit, or is it that he moves his site from country to country or sometimes uses MS servers and sometimes not?

Either way I have a nice sharp Ax/Axe ready to slice off any
Pedophile's masculinity

if they lay a hand on any of my kids.

Well aren't you a clever boy? Why would a pedophile deserve any any
worse punishment than anyone else?

Who said they get any worse punishment? Could you expand on this?

--
Adrian

'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem
to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself
in now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' - Sir Isaac Newton

--
Brian

 

[Brian]

I have family members who have given up their life to do it.
A relative of mine is a nun in Pakistan. She's been there for more
than 2 decades, & she's never attempted to convert anyone. For one
simple reason: there is too much work to be done. Threal scope is
humanitarian aid, period.

But this makes the CC look good and thus promotes itself by its good deeds and there for can't possibly be Charity work.

Much like large corporations letting people have a day off to do charity work can't be considered charitable acts as they are viewed as promoting the company.

And of course all of those so called charities that accept money from large corporations couldn't be real charities either as one they are allowing big business to promote themselves by donating, and two by supporting big business by purchasing their goods.

Yes, I'm afraid that even giving the bum on the street a buck, couldn't be considered charity as it is promoting yourself as a good individual.

Alas, there is no real charity on earth.

--
Brian

 

[photophile]

Is the reason why we are having so many pope posts because temporarily we are in a post-pope period ?

;-)

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Olympus C-750 UZ (also Oly OM-10, Oly Trip-35)

AH

 

[Bruce Bradford]

I repeat..PREDATORY HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS. Yes, most of the offenses were commited by gays. The gay subculture in the Catholic seminaries is amply documented in the book "A FEW GOOD MEN". If the predators were heterosexual there would have been a furor about young girls being attacked; this was not the case. Unlike prisoners, etc. priests have equal access to both male and female, and any other sex the deviants have invented. Sorry if you are sensitive to this; I am surprised the honorable gay community has never come out condemning these predators for what they are.

Bruce

Just to correct a popular misconception: There were very few
"pedophile" priests revealed in the recent scandal. Pedophelia is
a clinical mental disease. The vast majority of offenses were
committed against teen-age and older young men by predatory
homosexual priests.

Bruce

Are you saying the problem was a problem of homosexuals, not Priests?

Because they committed acts upon members of the same sex does not
necessarily mean that they were homosexuals.

Think of all that goes on in prisons, or the tales of deprivation
resulting in homosexual acts by British sailors, or at all-male
schools. The situation endured by Priests is similar, although
obviously not identical.

One must be very careful not to assume that heterosexual men commit
relatively fewer depraved acts then homosexuals, because that is
not known to be the case.

Perhaps I am insinuating too much from your reply, but I truly
detest the ploy of the anti-gay right to turn the deplorable
actions of Priests and the RC church, into yet another instance of
gay bashing.

Sorry if I misinterpreted your intent - I am (obviously) very
sensitive on the subject.

 

[Classic Man]

Ok, OK.....I know you are a heartless cynic who sees conspiracy theories everywhere, but please show a bit of respect for these people who are doing such humanitarian work!

They are doing it selflessly & silently, in all regions of the earth. While I may not share their religious convictions, I surely respect & appreciate their work.

Comparing people who give up their lives for others to

large corporations letting people have a day off to do
charity work can't be considered charitable acts as they are viewed
as promoting the company.

is just plain silly, & just trollish behavior. Since it is so easy to dis such people's work from the comfort of your sofa, you just do it.

Get a life, Brian!

I have family members who have given up their life to do it.
A relative of mine is a nun in Pakistan. She's been there for more
than 2 decades, & she's never attempted to convert anyone. For one
simple reason: there is too much work to be done. Threal scope is
humanitarian aid, period.

But this makes the CC look good and thus promotes itself by its
good deeds and there for can't possibly be Charity work.

Much like large corporations letting people have a day off to do
charity work can't be considered charitable acts as they are viewed
as promoting the company.

And of course all of those so called charities that accept money
from large corporations couldn't be real charities either as one
they are allowing big business to promote themselves by donating,
and two by supporting big business by purchasing their goods.

Yes, I'm afraid that even giving the bum on the street a buck,
couldn't be considered charity as it is promoting yourself as a
good individual.

Alas, there is no real charity on earth.

--
Brian

 

[obviouspig]

and stick a tube in it.

so flame me.

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