Pope: "Religions must never become vehicles for hatred," (BBC News)

[AlinPA]

Too bad U.S. right-wing "Christians" don't follow his advice.


"Religions must never become vehicles for hatred," the Pope told the leaders attending a peace summit in Naples.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7055147.stm

[peace frog]

1. Physician, heal thyself

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[no_hypocrisy]

2. I'll start the list.

1. The Crusades (all of them)
2. The Inquisition
3. Wars between European countries in the name of "The Reformation", but really proxy wars for the Church (e.g., The Thirty Years' War)

Feel free to add to the list

[AlinPA]

5. and hatred for gay people and anyone not the same as them, for that matter.

[AnnieBW]

7. Persecution of Pagans

during the Roman era.

The burning of the Library of Alexandria and the murder of its scholars.

Giving tacit support to Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler.

2000 years of anti-Semitism.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. The torture and burning at the stake of more than 800,000 women

accused of witchcraft.

[Orsino]

10. Women in general as second-class citizens. The war on birth control and abortion. n/t

[papau]

13. Probably should say which burning of the Alexandria library - I'm sure you mean the one assumed to

have occurred in 391 with order to destroy pagan temples -

I do not believe there is any actual evidence of that assumed burning.

[Raksha]

14. And the Catholic Church has NEVER lived any of it down, nor should it.

Its inflated claims to spiritual authority have been compromised forever because of the many times it became a vehicle for hatred.

So I would say the Pope knows from (collective and historical) experience what he's talking about!

[baldguy]

3. I guess he's never heard of the Crusades.

[Forkboy]

4. Too late.

[Tikki]

6. And yet, somehow, hate swirls and swirls around...

that man and his position until it becomes like an aura.


Tikki

[NMMNG]

9. Too funny

That just contradicts most of everything else he's ever said.

[madrchsod]

11. oh really ratz

better not tally the millions killed by those who murdered in the name of the church and it`s proxies.

[theHandpuppet]

12. Like the Spanish Inquisition, oh robed one?

You know we could make a laundry list of the millions who have died at the bloody hands of the church but hey, what's the point? Doesn't seem the rampant hypocrisy has deterred any of your "pro-life" followers.

[bemildred]

15. What an ignorant asshole.

Religions have often been vehicles for hatred, and Ratzo and his ilk have been smack in the middle of it.

[Disturbed]

16. Is that a subtle message directed at Islam?

Sounds like it.