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DRB

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http://www.charlotte.com/206/story/120551.html

Benedict also defended the church's campaign centuries ago to Christianize indigenous people, saying Latin American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians when Spanish and Portuguese conquerors violently took over their native lands centuries ago.

"In effect, the proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture," he told the bishops.
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He did snicker when he said it.
 
Silver

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In other news, Benedict also mentioned that he felt that many Jews in the holocaust converted to Jesus while they were taking Zyklon-B showers, so it really wasn't as bad as some people think...
 
MikeD

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This just in: dogma contrived and uttered to justify past and present!!
 
Westy

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Sometimes no means yes. Sometimes, "no no please don't kill me and slaughter my wife and children" means please show the the ways of Jesus.
 
MikeD

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If you don't want it, don't, like, dress in loincloths and sh!t.
 
DRB

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In another part of the article he takes shots at marxism and capitalism and the reasons why he doesn't like them.

"The Marxist system, where it found its way into government, not only left a sad heritage of economic and ecological destruction, but also a painful destruction of the human spirit," the pope said.

He also warned of unfettered capitalism and globalization. Before boarding a plane for Rome later Sunday, he said the two could give "rise to a worrying degradation of personal dignity through drugs, alcohol and deceptive illusions of happiness."
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Do those end results sound familar? I just can't quite place them.
 
MikeD

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NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
 
JohnE

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"The Catholic Church, where it found its way into government, not only left a sad heritage of economic and ecological destruction, but also a painful destruction of the human spirit," JohnE said.

I remember touring the Vatican mueseum several years ago, and being revolted by the sheer amount of sh*t looted from various "savage" civilizations and their ignorant people, so longing for salvation by sword.
 
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