He will be a powerful ally of the dark side..
Everything is proceeding as I have forseen.
As originally posted by yours truly in the comments on Geeklife.com.
Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 | SlantyOD | SlantyNet - General
Everything is proceeding as I have forseen.
As originally posted by yours truly in the comments on Geeklife.com.
Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 | SlantyOD | SlantyNet - General
You know this guys has a Nazi past which he was able to downplay as a Cardinal but I think he is going to have a hard time with it as the pope.
I canā??t wait for the first tell all books about how him and his past.
From the geeklife posts:
John Apr.19.05 2:05 pm Updated: Apr.19.05 2:23 pm
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Posts: 2303 15: He wasn’t a Nazi.
Carefully pulled from his Wikipedia page:
Quote:
When Ratzinger turned 14 in 1941, he was required by law to join the Hitler Youth, but according to his biographer John Allen he was not an enthusiastic member. He requested to be taken off the rolls and reportedly refused to attend a single meeting. In 1943, at the age of 16 he was, along with the rest of his class, drafted into the Flak or anti-aircraft corps, responsible for the guarding of a BMW plant outside Munich. He was then sent for basic infantry training and was posted to Hungary, where he worked setting up anti-tank defences until fleeing in April 1944 (an offense punishable by death). In 1945 he was briefly held in an Allied POW camp, where he attended de-Nazification classes.
I may hate all this pope business. But I ain’t gonna call someone a Nazi just for the hell of it. That’s low.
I didnā??t mean to say (or for it to be taken as) that he was a ā??Naziā?? in the form of lining up Jews in the concentration camps.
He was a German citizen during the war and was in the Hitler Youth. I also really donā??t buy at face value that he wanted to be taken off the Hitler Youth list during that time. From everything my history classes have taught me was that if you didnā??t pull your weight as a German citizen you were considered expendable (and in many cases expended).
I just believe that the fact he was in the German Army during WW2 he will always be looked at skeptically (especially in the Jewish and Conspiracy Theorist eyes).
Bad news: No change in how women are viewed w/in Catholic church. No change regarding views on birth control and STD. No change on letting priests marry.
Good news: He won’t last longer than 5-6 years so a liberal pope may be seen in my lifetime.
It’ll take awhile, but once they get him all wired up like JPII he should keep going for at least another 15 years.
If he pisses off enough cardinals, he won’t last much longer than John Paul I.
Pope toast.