Hey Frank, the prophet Elijah made fun of Baal.
Michael Savage was right when he labeled you as "Lenin's pope".
If one goes full-bore on free speech (which I personally believe in) and there is going to be a Charlie Hebdo like march, and all sorts of people show up mocking Islam, the Pope, Jesus, and have pics of the Dung Mary, Piss Christ and so on, then if you truly support unbridled free speech you will have to suck it up, and temporarily suspend your offense over your own faith being mocked and go all-out for free speech (as there would be people there mocking every faith).
If the Pope doesn’t grasp the concept of “turn the other cheek”, something’s wrong.
“Burn them at the stake like Jan Hus, sure. But don’t make fun of them.”
I think people are making way too much of this.
All the guy was trying to say is that while it might be legal to make fun of another religion, it is not polite. And we should be polite.
How is this even news?
Really?
1 Kings 18:27 (ESV)
27 And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
It seems that one would have to go all out for free speech in a march like this, or go by what Francis has to say. It looks like it is one or the other...
I wonder if he is basically saying “So in everything, do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:12 Luke 6:31.
Theres a lot in any idea about the unknowable to criticize, question, ridicule or doubt. Thats the nature of the unknowable.
As much as I disdain Frank and his phoniness, he probably meant that we shouldn't make fun of other religions. Either that or he's really letting his kneejerk Marxist lust for control be manifested.
Hey Frank, the prophet Elijah made fun of Baal.
Michael Savage was right when he labeled you as "Lenin's pope".
I would ask, “Your Holiness....what if it wasn’t a faith, but a murderous death-cult? Would it be okay to make fun of it then?”
Do they drug test Popes? Just curious..
Maybe Malachy's prophecy is worth another look.
Reminds me what P.J. O'Rourke once said:
"A conservative may tell you that you shouldn't make fun of something. And he may be right. But a liberal will tell you, 'You can't make fun of cripples.' And he's wrong - as anybody who's heard the one about Helen Keller falling into a well and breaking three fingers calling for help can tell you."
The bottom line is that mocking God is meaningless. If as an ordinary person, if you pass by an anthill, and one of the ants is mocking you, even if you know that ant is mocking you, do you destroy the ant, or the entire anthill?
Then what if you see the ants tearing apart that one ant that was mocking you. What does that inspire you to do?
Otherwise, it has been said that the truly fanatical are that way, because among believers, they doubt their faith the most. So their response is to oppress others, on the grounds that *the others* faith is not strong enough.
If you mock the faith of a true believer, they will laugh at and ignore your mockery. Only the fanatic gets upset about it, because their faith is weak enough as is.
There is one proviso to this, however, which is that if the mockery is patently offensive beyond faith, it can be reasonably condemned, not out of fanaticism, but on the grounds of good taste.
I raised that you should never make fun of anyone’s race, ethnicity, or religion.
However, radical Islam is more of a dangerous ideology than it is a religion.
That is your rule, and I reject it.
/johnny
The only time Jesus got angry was with the money changers in the temple. I wonder how much money the Vatican has in the bank, property and art.
the pope’s a freak. communism raising it’s ugly head.