The Pope makes the Muslims mad!

[sephirothishere]

lol religion

i know man......everbody shud CHILL and tell everyone its made up....heheheheheheheh

[NorthernChaosGod]

Let's just have another crusade!

[Arrianna]

You mean they haven't already started???? :O_O:

[sephirothishere]

Let's just have another crusade

no way man thats some scary HAPPY BUNNIES OF FLUFF AND LOVE right there.......count me OUT.....

and in reply to the title....the pope makes everybody mad man.....

The swear filter is there for a reason. Don't go around it.

~Void

[DarkLadyNyara]

Given that the Muslim world tends to react to statements such as this by burning effigies/diplomatic offices*, I'm not sure I can disagree with what the Pope says.

* Basically, it boils down to this.
"Islam is a violent faith."
"TAKE THAT BACK OR WE'LL KILL YOU!"

And this crap about extending an apology or retracting the statement because it will harm relations... is insane... it's saying "Do as we say, or you'll suffer the consequences."

Edit; None of this is to say that Catholicism has gone up in my eyes.

Yeah, that's about the shape of it.

Note to Muslims: Threatening and/or killing people to protest them calling your faith violent kinda defeats the purpose.

[Giga Guess]

The thing that gets me is...it's not like the catholics have a very clean record either...I think that's what Roto's talking about.

[sephirothishere]

The thing that gets me is...it's not like the catholics have a very clean record either...I think that's what Roto's talking about.

exactly did anybody ever see the godfather 3......its all sososo clear...hahahahahahhah.....

and the crusades....thats some scary stuff right there count me out man.....sorry dudes....

[Madame Adequate]

It's not like we're getting our transportation networks blown up by Catholics.

And I notice a distinct lack of death threats issued by the Vatican to the makers of Father Ted.

There are no protests involving threatening the destruction of our entire civilization when someone draws a cartoon satirizing the Pope.

Oh, and when someone insults Christianity as a whole, the leaders of major sects don't tend to demand apologies on pain of death, either.

[Giga Guess]

I never said they were AS BAD, but it's hard to take a morally superior standpoint while ignoring your own flaws.

[Chimp]

That's pretty funny. Good job (middle east) muslims on proving that you are a peace loving people. I wonder what they will burn next!? Perhaps a new alternative to gasoline? I hope so.

[Bloodline666]

What I find ironic is that Muhammad Ali dodged the draft during the Vietnam War based on religious grounds, and yet...his own holy book preaches violence against non-believers (here's proof)...and given the fact that the North Vietnamese were probably either Atheist (as they were Communist) or Buddhist (as Buddhism is essentially the primary religion in East Asia)...I don't understand why he dodged the draft on "religious grounds", aside from the fact that he still felt bitter about Segregation...then again, not everybody practices their religion word-for-word according to their Holy Book (even the Bible blatantly admits that everybody sins, or has sinned in the past).

If the Islamic extremists do respond to the Pope's words with violence, then the Pope will automatically win, as he will have been proven correct. People who take the law into their own hands, be it societal laws or God's law, are only stooping down to the level of those committing the alleged crimes. And unfortunately, we see it happening all the time.

[NorthernChaosGod]

You mean they haven't already started???? :O_O:

[Madame Adequate]

I never said they were AS BAD, but it's hard to take a morally superior standpoint while ignoring your own flaws.

Whilst the Catholic Church has done some pretty damn nasty things in the past, and whilst today they could certainly do with some enlightenment over, for example, homosexuality and contraception, Islam requires the same on those subjects and many others.

Edit: I was just reading a bit about this, the Pope quite clearly rebuked what was said for being much too harsh.

[Chimp]

Meh. All religion is spread by some kind of conflict. Islam was spread by war, it's no different than any other mainstream religion. Look in a history book.

[Polaris]

Let's just have another crusade!

yeah it'll be fun: dead bodies, blood, I bet they are tired of water and want to see some blood! And I bet they'd use those cute 11th century uniforms

Seriously what the Pope said wasn't that bad and he was just reading a sentence from another person... Bad news the guy already died so i don't think muslism can kill him again... I just hope that the Pope will choose better the sentences that he'll say...