tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post4377929343848588221..comments2023-06-14T21:50:15.221+10:00Comments on Ediacaran: Religious Ghouls - updateChris Nedinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06978886926715669724noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-3432468842670057022009-03-09T21:35:00.000+11:002009-03-09T21:35:00.000+11:00David,Ratzinger laid the groundwork for this when ...David,<BR/><BR/>Ratzinger laid the groundwork for this when he <A HREF="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/7/6/152916.shtml" REL="nofollow">threatened</A> pro-abortionists, including presidential candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign.<BR/><BR/>Here in Australia Cardinal Pell <A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/catholic-mps-to-defy-pell-over-bill/2007/06/05/1180809521252.html" REL="nofollow">threatened</A> Members of Parliament over stem cell legislation.<BR/><BR/>And Ratzinger didn't lift the excommunication on an individual, he lifted it from the Saint Pius X fundamentalist sect. The holocaust denier is a member of that sect.<BR/><BR/>The rapist has confessed, and was caught trying to run away.Chris Nedinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06978886926715669724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-27432933599658285732009-03-09T00:18:00.000+11:002009-03-09T00:18:00.000+11:00Chris, I think yours is a very fair call and a sou...Chris, I think yours is a very fair call and a sound assessment of the current church. Well, the church at any time actually. Its record is not edifying. As Josef Brodsky put it "To forgive some crimes is itself a crime."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-1859341803557294332009-03-08T19:57:00.000+11:002009-03-08T19:57:00.000+11:00Huh?Call me a another drooling idiot if you must, ...Huh?<BR/><BR/>Call me a another drooling idiot if you must, but I really don't get this post.<BR/><BR/>I don't see what Sobrinho's actions have to do with Ratzinger's papacy in general; the lifting of the excommunication of a nutty holocaust skeptic seems really off-topic. <BR/><BR/>You may be right about Sobrinho's being hypocritical, but it isn't entirely clear. We know what the mother and doctor did. What we have now are allegations against the father. Couldn't Sobrinho be waiting for proof of the case against the father? (Assuming the father is a Roman Catholic.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com