Yeah, the accusation would be without merit, but that certainly wouldn’t stop Billy D. from making it.

I would suspect he would accuse those complaining of being anti-Catholic, and leave it at that.

“Nazi Pope, Nazi Pope, Nazi Pope – FUCK OFF!!!”

As long as the GOP Pope remains installed, I NEVER want to hear another right-wing complaint about Farrakhan or Jeremiah Wright.

And how whack does one have to be in order to believe that about any other person?

I suppose I should be pleased. Nothing will hasten the demise of the Roman Catholic Church faster than a policy of strict atavism.

Warren Terra says:
Dammit, when I was a Jewish Atheist kid in Seattle in the 1980’s, if one talked about the intersection of the Catholic Church and Politics, it meant the Sanctuary Movement, martyrs for human rights in El Salvador, Revolution Theology, and the Social Gospel.

I do not know this for a fact but it is my understanding that John Paul II put then Cardinal Ratzinger in charge of eliminating all traces of Liberation Theology from the Catholic Church.

Quaker in a Basement says:

If a novelist invented a Pope half as strange as Ratzo, his work would be considered an insult.

Actually over the last 2,000 years most Popes have been as strange or stranger than Benedict XVI. Go back over papal history, especially during the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries, and you will find popes venal, ambitious, ignorant and arrogant. Just like Benedict the XVI.

I mean it is only appropriate that the Vatican catch up to radical Islam in its attempt to drag civilization back to the 14th Century.

Of course, it’s clear that Ratzi doesn’t mind Nazism, so long as noone remembers the social gospel or tolerates Teh Ghey.

Dammit, when I was a Jewish Atheist kid in Seattle in the 1980’s, if one talked about the intersection of the Catholic Church and Politics, it meant the Sanctuary Movement, martyrs for human rights in El Salvador, Revolution Theology, and the Social Gospel. Our local Archbishop (Ray Hunthausen) was welcoming to Seattle’s fairly active Gay community. Since then, of course, that Archbishop was exiled to Montana by the Vatican and the Church has completely reinvented itself to look like Ratzi and the other Dark-Ages Opus Dei types. The Church was seen as a force for Good then, even if we were aware that the Pope was a reactionary.

P.S. Looking up Archbishop Hunthausen on Wikipedia, I see that Ratzi’s would-be brownshirts are at play (emphasis added with boldface):

Archbishop Hunthausen was considered a champion of the poor and overlooked and was known for his positions on peace and justice. As the archbishop of the Seattle Archdiocese his leadership was marked by strong pastoral care to all people. He, perhaps improperly,[citation needed] embraced the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, particularly in his dedication to ecumenism and multicultural issues.

Material that used to be there about how Hunthausen angered the knuckledraggers by showing respect for gay folks has also been removed, though indications that Ratzi et al slapped him down over the issue remain. Time to finally get a Wikipedia account and engage in some editing wars, I guess.

Oh, wait . . .

What? What?

I’m sure it was all just a big accident and an apology will straighten it all out. I think the historical evidence will show tons of instances–probably about six million of which involve Jews but only about four or five million other instances so clearly it wasn’t just a deliberate action against only Jews–where it was all a big misunderstanding. It was a war, after all, and mistakes are made. Wars are messy. Collateral damage is inevitable and all that. And “6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed” isn’t likely anyway, since many were just inappropriately fed, placed on extreme diets, contracted diseases, were shot for something that was certain to have been before a military tribunal or some other appropriate governing body, and so forth. The man is right: the historical evidence is clear.

As is the absolute evil that is the Vatican.