Not that Pope. That one's dead and soon to be a saint we might add. We were talking about the new Pope.
No. He's not Pope.
Or even a saint.
Yet.
This is the Pope who was in Brazil recently and the AP wrote a story about it. Here is a quote from that story:
In a speech to Latin American and Caribbean bishops at the end of a visit to Brazil, the Pope said the Church had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
They had welcomed the arrival of European priests at the time of the conquest as they were "silently longing" for Christianity, he said.
Wow. Silently longing for Christianity, who knew? If the natives who lost their lives after the priests came and converted them were silently longing for it, just imagine what those Jews who were murdered during the Inquisition must have been wishing for. Hey Pope Adolph, don't bother to send any priests to Monkey Muck HQ, we're not longing for your backwards faith to be shoved down our throats at the point of a sword and we don't need any dirty old men to check us for hernias either.
2 comments:
what i can't understand is the blind faith that people have in the pope. he's just a man.
"Backwards faith" = perfect description.
As SF said in his weekly throwdown [ahem]:
"Pope Benedict XVI visited Brazil last week. 60 years too late, the last Nazi finally escapes to South America."
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