Holy Doughnuts!!!
Hey Folks,
I awoke this morning to a three-story barrage of Holy News - wholly ridiculous Holy News.
In one report, the Pope had repeated nasty comments about Islam and pissed off the Turks, Lebanese, Egyptians, Syrians, and the Pakistanis (for starters). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_re_mi_ea/pope_muslims
Another story reported a Jordanian government decree that only a state-appointed council could issue religious edicts. The government, as everyone knows, is best prepared to determine which individuals - among the many claimants - has a direct hot-line to Allah. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-jordan-religious-edicts,1,7729080.story
The third story told of the brilliant holy sect in Kenya which had predicted the end of the world on Sept. 12; and – when the world continued on obliviously – decided to enter their holy bunker beneath the corn field and stay there anyway - because the attack on the US embassy in Syria was "just the beginning.” http://allafrica.com/stories/200609130039.html
According to story 1: ‘‘‘ The pope quoted from a book recounting a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam.
"The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the pope said.
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,'" he quoted the emperor as saying. He did not explicitly agree with them nor repudiate them. ’’’
Way to go Papa!!! How could you ever have guessed that such talk might be taken as an insult by half the world? Why would a Muslim be sensitive to such talk by a Christian leader?
And you other people who are pissed off: it’s just some old man (who thinks he’s infallible) calling names. Remember: sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
Ignore him.
He can live in HIS fantasy world, and you can live in yours.
Just like the 22 members of the Kenyan doomsday cult can live in their little two-room bunker for as long as they want (up to 13 months, when the food runs out).
The only other option I see is to put the government in charge of religion, as in Jordan. It’s likely to work here. Our President already talks to God and has been sent on special missions.
- Uke Man
I awoke this morning to a three-story barrage of Holy News - wholly ridiculous Holy News.
In one report, the Pope had repeated nasty comments about Islam and pissed off the Turks, Lebanese, Egyptians, Syrians, and the Pakistanis (for starters). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_re_mi_ea/pope_muslims
Another story reported a Jordanian government decree that only a state-appointed council could issue religious edicts. The government, as everyone knows, is best prepared to determine which individuals - among the many claimants - has a direct hot-line to Allah. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-jordan-religious-edicts,1,7729080.story
The third story told of the brilliant holy sect in Kenya which had predicted the end of the world on Sept. 12; and – when the world continued on obliviously – decided to enter their holy bunker beneath the corn field and stay there anyway - because the attack on the US embassy in Syria was "just the beginning.” http://allafrica.com/stories/200609130039.html
According to story 1: ‘‘‘ The pope quoted from a book recounting a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam.
"The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the pope said.
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,'" he quoted the emperor as saying. He did not explicitly agree with them nor repudiate them. ’’’
Way to go Papa!!! How could you ever have guessed that such talk might be taken as an insult by half the world? Why would a Muslim be sensitive to such talk by a Christian leader?
And you other people who are pissed off: it’s just some old man (who thinks he’s infallible) calling names. Remember: sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
Ignore him.
He can live in HIS fantasy world, and you can live in yours.
Just like the 22 members of the Kenyan doomsday cult can live in their little two-room bunker for as long as they want (up to 13 months, when the food runs out).
The only other option I see is to put the government in charge of religion, as in Jordan. It’s likely to work here. Our President already talks to God and has been sent on special missions.
- Uke Man
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Now the linkws work. Have just linked this to my blog.
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