Hitler's Pope
A new Pope has been chosen. I am trying to be as inflamitory as possible, because Ratzinger puts to shame John Paul II's work of resistence to political control. And all of those things that JP2 did that were restrictive and very conservative, Ratzinger will likely do more and more and more.
THE NEW POPE WAS A HITLER YOUTH, people. During his young days in Nazi Occupied country, he was consigned and rose ranks as a team leader.
Let me repeat, kids: the Catholic Cardinals have chosen a member of the Hitler Youth to lead the world's single most politically empowered religious body.
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updates:
THE NEW POPE WAS A HITLER YOUTH, people. During his young days in Nazi Occupied country, he was consigned and rose ranks as a team leader.
Let me repeat, kids: the Catholic Cardinals have chosen a member of the Hitler Youth to lead the world's single most politically empowered religious body.
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updates:
- The most appropriate response to the announcement I've heard: "Sheisse!"
- Taking the name Benedict XVI. Let's hope he follows from his name-sake predecessor and pushes for Peace and Reason in the face of turbulent war.
posted by General Stan at 10:49 AM
4 Comments:
At least he didn't fire a gun, due to his...disgust for the Nazi authority? Adherence to the teachings of Jesus? Nope, wait for it: ...his "badly infected finger."
Was that a conscientious infector? *sorry*
gwhahahaha
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another way to look at it is this: He did flee the corp, eventually. But keep in mind, he FLED. he was still arrested and interred in Allied POW camps. So, not only was he a member of the youth corps, but he was a deserter. In America, I doubt we'd take too kindly to a President who Deserted.... Oh... wait.
Ignore that line of thought... I clearly don't know what I'm talking about.
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Hey, by the way, I'm not calling the Pope a Nazi. I'm just saying he worked for Nazi's. That makes him Nazi-ish.
And yes, I also think he was a poor choice for Pope. In an era of needed global unity, I find this choice to be sorely disappointing traditional conservative Eurocentrism.
I remember reading a while back on Slate an article that posited the Catholic church needed to get MORE hard-line, not less, in order to whip the faithful into shape and keep the identity of the Church sharply defined in the minds of the rest of us heretics, who tend to lump Presby-pisco-luther-bapt-odists together into one lump "Christian" sum. An interesting point, especially since it removes any question of specific beliefs or faith from the debate. In strict zero-sum terms, I guess it makes sense. Works for the Mormons, anyway.
But in humanitarian, globalist, secular humanist terms (right, the ones conservatives ignore), I think it sucks.
And so it begins...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4473001.stm
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