Posted on 05/12/2009 11:09:18 AM PDT by presidio9
In an action that spoke far louder than words, Pope Benedict yesterday walked out of an interfaith meeting in Jerusalem after the chief Islamic judge of the Palestinian Authority launched into an anti-Israeli diatribe.
The pontiff, on his first day in Jerusalem, did not realize at first that Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, speaking in Arabic, was condemning the "crimes of the Jewish state" and accusing Israel of having "slaughtered women, children and senior citizens."
But as soon as he was told the nature of the sheikh's tirade, he stood and left the meeting, which took place at Notre Dame church, before it had concluded.
It's not as if the organizers shouldn't have seen this coming: Back in 2000, Tamimi did the same thing during a visit by the late Pope John Paul II.
A spokesman for the Holy See later condemned the remarks, saying that
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My hope is based on nothing less than God's unfailing Word. It is not "hope" in the sense of something I wish for but it is in the sense of what is expected and certain. This hope will not disappoint!
Muslims, and others have a hope that is uncertain. It depends on a whimsical god and their own current ephemeral condition at the time they die. That's sad.
I have been sealed by the Holy Spirit of God. I am His child and I can't be snached away from my expectation and hope.
I thank God for His infinite mercy and grace. Amen
Did you just compare me to Woody on Toy Story? LOL. :-)
Look, my point is, I WILL NEVER ADMIT THAT I SINNED, BECAUSE I FOLLOWED GOD’S LEADERSHIP TO IVF TO ACHIEVE MY FAMILY.
Tell me, if I show up at a local Catholic Church and start preaching about the wonderfulness of IVF and how God has blessed me with my wonderful children and how an infertile couple needn’t suffer any more...are you telling me that the priest at that church would smile and pat me on my head and say, “Good work, child!! We are so glad to have you here!”
Somehow, I just don’t think so. LOL. :-) But you go on thinking that *I’m* the confused one. :-)
What an obscene strawman.
It just goes to show you have no reply to what he said, so you have to make something up and win an argument against that.
I didn't post 1534, you did. And you need to tell us how a particular post insulted you, not just that you had the vague feeling that it was one.
I think the one where you really insulted me was pulled when the adm. mod told you to quit with the insults.
Yawn.
That post displays your intellectual honesty perfectly.
Actually, I did not do that. I compared a particular conversation I was having with you to one I might have with a mentally disabled person. In this case, you had the EXACT same simple concept explained to you three or four times, and you flat-out refused to accept the truth, as it was explained to you. That is not, repeat not, the same thing as calling you retarded. Perhaps you are having a problem identifying similies for what they are. I guess that's you're problem not mine. FWIW, I recognize that you have the mental capacity to log on to the internet and create a FR account. It seems to me that you function in the neighborhood of the average level.
That being said, we'll return to figures of speech, and your previous post: For instanstance, I’m assuming that you’re not bright enough to know that “beyond the pale” is a direct anti-Catholic referrence. As far as I’m concerned, you happened to use it on this thread accidently. If a couple of other people on this thread had used it, I'd have to assume that its use was intentional, fully cognizant, and hostile. Not with you, though sweetheart. Which would you prefer?
So far that makes... none. And I am not aware of any posts by me that have been removed by the moderator. I guess we can chalk this one up as another instance where you have lied about me or insulted me without having a single shread of evidence to back up what you were saying.
First, let me note your consistency on being a poster who cannot debate rationally but who invariably stoops to personal attacks. It's in keeping with the general vacuousness of your perspective.
Second, you think your idiotic comment on that other thread is a truthful statement??? (Never mind that the thread's NYP article does not say what you so foolishly uttered on this thread; first proclaiming six million Jews didn't die in the Holocaust, and then after you were called on it, quickly CYA by mumbling something about maybe more, maybe less.)
Here is your first bizarre comment on the thread you linked to...
PRESIDIO9: "One thing that I think a lot of people in our PC culture miss today is tha the Holocaust was not against any particular religion. It was against non-German ethnicities polluting the gene pool. The millions of Jews killed were matched by as many Catholics, as Pols and Gypsies were also heavily targeted."
No, dear failing student of history, the Holocaust specifically targeted religious and ethnic Jews. You must be in grade school if you even dare to breath this foul revisionism.
And do you actually believe the number of Catholics, Pols and gypsies EQUALLED the number of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis?!?
So did less than six million Jews die in the Holocaust or for the past 65 years should we have been lamenting the deaths of six million Catholics murdered by the Nazis? (And let us keep in mind that the vast majority of Hitler's architects of death were practicing Roman Catholics.)
You guys try to rewrite history and hope nobody notices. Pathetic. By God's grace, what goes around comes around.
Mary, these are some of the games they love to play -- evade the topic at all costs and instead quibble over a word here and there.
If anyone wants to see an example of presidio9's infantile, nasty, personal remarks, they have only to close their eyes and pick one. They ALL read the same - desperate.
They really insulted you, Dr. E., calling you insane, idiot, etc. They really hate it when we challenge their ideals and beliefs. LOL.
"dumb ass, losers, retard" and more
There’s no doubt that others were killed, but it was Hitler’s mission to destroy the Jews and the Jews mainly.
Yawn....
Yawn.
Yawn.
lol, now you are too stupid to understand his point of w=view and certainly cheeky for you, a mere woman, to have your own.
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