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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Considering the most likely candidate is someone who makes the Inquisition look more liberal than Clinton
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Between Bush and now this guy, it is the Official start of the Dark Ages Part II

Let the Genocide begin.

Planet was overpopulated anyway <shrugs>
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Genocide? You mean stop Genocide as in mass killing of unborn babies?
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Considering the most likely candidate is someone who makes the Inquisition look more liberal than Clinton
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Between Bush and now this guy, it is the Official start of the Dark Ages Part II

Let the Genocide begin.

Planet was overpopulated anyway <shrugs>
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Genocide? You mean stop Genocide as in mass killing of unborn babies?
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Or helping AIDS eliminate the whole third world population?
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Profile from BBC.

His studies at the seminary were interrupted during the war when he was drafted into an anti-aircraft unit in Munich.
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At the age of 14, he joined the Hitler Youth, as was required of young Germans of the time, but was not an enthusiastic member.

His studies at Traunstein seminary were interrupted during World War II when he was drafted into an anti-aircraft unit in Munich.

He deserted the German army towards the end of the war and was briefly held as a prisoner of war by the Allies in 1945.
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yay..down with change😛 course being infaliable sorta makes it hard to say oops. need something like ww3 to take peoples attention away before you bother.
 
Jerusalem Post

Ratzinger a Nazi? Don't believe it
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As the Sunday Times article admits, Ratzinger's membership in the Hitler Youth was not voluntary but compulsory; also admitted are the facts that the cardinal ? only a teenager during the period in question ? was the son of an anti-Nazi policeman, that he was given a dispensation from Hitler Youth activities because of his religious studies, and that he deserted the German army.

Ratzinger has several times gone on record on his supposedly "problematic" past. In the 1997 book Salt of the Earth, Ratzinger is asked whether he was ever in the Hitler Youth.

"At first we weren't," he says, speaking of himself and his older brother, "but when the compulsory Hitler Youth was introduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join. I was still too young, but later as a seminarian, I was registered in the Hitler Youth. As soon as I was out of the seminary, I never went back. And that was difficult because the tuition reduction, which I really needed, was tied to proof of attendance at the Hitler Youth.

"Thank goodness there was a very understanding mathematics professor. He himself was a Nazi, but an honest man, and said to me, 'Just go once to get the document so we have it...' When he saw that I simply didn't want to, he said, 'I understand, I'll take care of it' and so I was able to stay free of it."

Ratzinger says this again in his own memoirs, printed in 1998. In his 2002 biography of the cardinal, John Allen, Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter wrote in detail about those events.

The only significant complaint that the Times makes against Ratzinger's wartime conduct is that he resisted quietly and passively, rather than having done something drastic enough to earn him a trip to a concentration camp. Of course, whenever it is said that a German failed the exceptional-resistance-to-the-Nazis test, it would behoove us all to recognize that too many Jews failed it, as well.

If he were truly a Nazi sympathizer, then it would undoubtedly have become evident during the past 60 years. Yet throughout his service in the church, Ratzinger has distinguished himself in the field of Jewish-Catholic relations.

As prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger played an instrumental role in the Vatican's revolutionary reconciliation with the Jews under John Paul II. He personally prepared Memory and Reconciliation, the 2000 document outlining the church's historical "errors" in its treatment of Jews. And as president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, Ratzinger oversaw the preparation of The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, a milestone theological explanation for the Jews' rejection of Jesus.

If that's theological anti-Semitism, then we should only be so lucky to "suffer" more of the same.

As for the Hitler Youth issue, not even Yad Vashem has considered it worthy of further investigation. Why should we?
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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: rh71
78 years old... tick tock tick tock... 😉
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Meet you back here in 7 years 😀
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:laugh:
He looks :evil: too.
Originally posted by: FoBoT
he is the old/administrator guy, right? so they figure he'll live for 5-10 years to tide them over, i.e. they decided to procrastinate and put off any hard decisions for now
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Yeah since he is for tradition I guess the Catholic church needs more time to get ready for that pope. As soon as this one dies I bet the next pope will be pro-change.



And since this pope is so old. Any bets on how long he will live.
I got $20 on 83 years old.
 
Originally posted by: dragonballgtz
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: rh71
78 years old... tick tock tick tock... 😉
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Meet you back here in 7 years 😀
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:laugh:
He looks :evil: too.
Originally posted by: FoBoT
he is the old/administrator guy, right? so they figure he'll live for 5-10 years to tide them over, i.e. they decided to procrastinate and put off any hard decisions for now
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Yeah since he is for tradition I guess the Catholic church needs more time to get ready for that pope. As soon as this one dies I bet the next pope will be pro-change.



And since this pope is so old. Any bets on how long he will live.
I got $20 on 83 years old.
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ill up you to 88.

MIKE
 
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