Okay. Laughably pathetic.
1) Telling the Pope what his job is or is not is not the job of Lou Dobbs or Andrew Napolitano or Jeb Bush or anyone else.
To Crick: You are the worst kind of American. Your kind of stupidity would hand America’s freedoms over to a theocracy no different than a Muslim theocracy. The fact that Napolitano was a New Jersey Superior Court Judge, his definition carries all the more weight. In short: Judge Napolitano is more than qualified to defend the most important 16 words in the Bill of Rights:
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; . . .
In case you were unaware, I am an atheist and have been for over 50 years. I give no power to the Pope and I take no rights from Dobbs and Napolitano. They can stand out here till the cows come home and tell the Pope to shut up (which doesn't seem to bother you at all). That same First Amendment will continue to give me the right to say they're full of shit. If YOU don't like it, go find your version of America, where only ONE side gets the free speech.
Asshole.
2) The papacy has a long and well-regarded history of caring for the physical (vice spiritual) well being of its congregation
To Crick: Your sneaky attempt to link Catholic charities to vice spiritual is more than pathetic.
ESL?
vice
preposition
1. instead of; in the place of.
Christian charity is not the private domain of the R.C.Ch., nor is charity the government’s business no matter how hard organized religion’s freaks like you try to make it. If you do not understand what is all about get some help with the First Amendment excerpt.
I wasn't speaking of Christian charity. Nor was I speaking of government aid. I was talking about the historical precedents of the office of the papacy regarding care for the physical (VICE spiritual) well being of the world's people. Think of the many expressions this and other popes have made concerning the poor and oppressed. Okay? PS: I think it is REALLY funny that you should mistake me for a "hard organized religion freak".
As far as vice spiritual goes, I do not want or need the morals of a Catholic priest.
My ******* god are you stupid
3) Jesus was clearly not a fan of the wealthy mercantile set.
To Crick: Nor was he a fan of contemporary institutional morality or institutional charity.
Let's see the quotes numbnuts. Jesus founded the church Francis leads. Jesus personally appointed Francis' original.
That the Pope should have a critical word for unrestrained capitalism should surprise no one.
To Crick: The pope can say anything he wants to say, but only so long as his goddamned mouth does not influence this country’s internal affairs.
Incredible. The Pope has free speech but not if he speaks against your views. What an ass. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect this was trolling. Were you actually thinking I was catholic and that you'd upset me by attacking the man?
Bottom line: Roman Catholic popes are nothing more than priests in fancy robes. Freedom-loving Americans should pay less attention to a hustling priest with a Messiah complex, and more attention to men who codified the freedoms you enjoy.
I think it's pathetically funny (just like Dobbs and Napolitano) that you should think Francis, of all people, has a Messiah complex. However, I have no issue with this expression of yours; it's a reasonable (though mildly jingoistic) thought.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. Thomas Jefferson
In general, I'd have to agree with ol' Tom. But, I'd also have to add, Jefferson never met this Pope. Besides which, you're making a pretty damn long stretch to get a threat to our freedoms out of an encyclical on global warming.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. Thomas Jefferson --Letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813
Wonderful! Do you have any idea how many times I've addressed conservatives such as yourself who insist that this country was founded as a Christian nation? I appreciate these quotes. I don't think they have a damn thing to do with Francis and global warming, but I still appreciate the dickens out of them.
The hubris of these two is flabbergasting.
To Crick: The pope’s environmental claptrap is the height of unlimited hubris. If he was a parish priest his flock would not pay attention to him. Give clowns like him a balcony and there is no stopping him.
Your vocabulary could use some work. Why don't you look up "hubris" and then explain to us how you apply it to someone holding the papacy.
You (and several others here) act as if Francis campaigned to be Pope; that he sought the job. That isn't your belief, is it?