Paris attacks: Pope says freedom of speech has limits

[klr]

I guess "turning the other cheek" is out of fashion now?

[JimC]

I guess "turning the other cheek" is out of fashion now?

Except for gay priests...

[L'Emmerdeur]

[cronus]

He does have a point, the Pope. If folks have developed that personal relationship with a imaginary being then a trip to the local asylum is most informative on how carefully you must to tread, in order to avoid the occasional punch.

[jaydot]

what brian keith dalton said, with knobs on. stupid pope.

[klr]

I guess "turning the other cheek" is out of fashion now?

Except for gay priests...

Now, now ... that's uncalled for, what with you working in a Catholic school

[laklak]

I think "turn the other cheek" was a mistranslation. What it actually said was "upturn both your cheeks, little Sweetbum".

[piscator]

Just a reminder: Tomorrow (today for some) is World Religion Day!

World Religion Day is an interfaith observance initiated in 1950 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, celebrated worldwide on the third Sunday in January each year. Though initiated in the United States, World Religion Day has come to be celebrated internationally.[1]

Its purpose is to call attention to the essential harmony of the spiritual principles underlying the world's religions, and to emphasize the role of religion in unifying humanity.[1] In April 2002, the Universal House of Justice, the international Bahá'í governing body, published a letter “To the World’s Religious Leaders”, in which it was stated “that interfaith discourse, if it is to contribute meaningfully to healing the ills that afflict a desperate humanity, must now address honestly . . . the implications of the over-arching truth . . . that God is one and that, beyond all diversity of cultural expression and human interpretation, religion is likewise one.”[2]

[pErvinalia]

Fucken awesome! I'm going to get pissed in celebration!

[cronus]

Fucken awesome! I'm going to get pissed in celebration!

Fireworks already burnt down scores of churches in Niger, more in Iraq later in the day from the other big religious bully should hazard a guess?

[Hermit]

Just a reminder: Tomorrow (today for some) is World Religion Day!

. . . God is one and that, beyond all diversity of cultural expression and human interpretation, religion is likewise one.”

Indeed. No difference betwee Unitarians and fundy Islamics at all. Same God everywhere - as long as we ignore all those cultural expressions and human interpretations.

[Sean Hayden]

they say some stupid shit don't they

[klr]

David Cameron and former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries are both underwhelmed (to put it mildly) by this bout of papal fallibility:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30869585

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/par ... 85522.html

[L'Emmerdeur]

Cameron: "the fundamental problem of a poisonous death cult narrative, which is a perversion of one of the world's major religions." Rather, I'd say that the Abrahamic religions all are based on a poisonous death cult narrative and have to some extent abandoned that narrative, while certain elements choose to continue to follow it.

[cronus]

Cameron: "the fundamental problem of a poisonous death cult narrative, which is a perversion of one of the world's major religions." Rather, I'd say that the Abrahamic religions all are based on a poisonous death cult narrative and have to some extent abandoned that narrative, while certain elements choose to continue to follow it.

I'm gonna say 51 & one angels on the head of pin here. That's my narrative at this point and as things stand. I'm sticking with it. Give or take a angel or three.