Outrageous insult to Holy Father

My mum is a Catholic. She has a postal vote but was planning not to vote at all. But she was so disgusted by the insult to His Holiness that she voted Conservative

Who?......oh the Nazi.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

Who?......oh the Nazi.

This gets trotted out all the time, there's loads of stuff to take the p*ss out of with religion... at least take the p*ss out of something with a more than a tenuous connection.

Background
Neither Ratzinger nor any member of his immediate family joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party). Ratzinger’s father was critical of the Nazi government, and as a result the family had to move four times before he was ten years old.
None of this is remarkable, however, because the same happened with other German Catholic families. Although many German Catholic leaders were willing to work with the Nazis, many individual Catholics and Catholic priests resisted as best they could, refusing to cooperate with a political regime they regarded as anti-Catholic at best and the embodiment of evil at worst.
Joseph Ratzinger joined the Hitler Youth in 1941 when, according to him and his supporters, it became compulsory for all German boys.

I never understood why he's called his holiness

[_Stretchie_]

Just bribe him with 20 minutes with a small boy, he'll come around to it

Originally Posted by thulfi

Hmm well not sure about the 'looks after them' part, but in terms of a first cause, an initial reaction to start off the universe - well that question is yet to be answered so I'm not gonna act like I know one way or the other.

If God is what people see to be as a human resembling being sitting in the sky its not hard to see where the ridicule comes from. If on the the other hand it is viewed as a supernatural force that engulfs the whole universe and everything in it, and has no form/shape then I've got no better ideas, and nor does anything else we've discovered/found.

The universe, its existence and origin is simply mind boggling and I think humans will become extinct before having ever found the answers.

There is a problem with that.

The person believing has no answer still, how was god created? Your back to square one.

If you say 'god was just there' or 'god just happened' then why cant the universe be just here or just happend. We should just all accept we dont know why and not create an imaginary entity to help us feel better about the idea.

Its just humans trying to find some comfort.

Originally Posted by beabert

There is a problem with that.

The person believing has no answer still, how was god created? Your back to square one.

If you say 'god was just there' or 'god just happened' then why cant the universe be just here or just happend. We should just all accept we dont know why and not create an imaginary entity to help us feel better about the idea.

Its just humans trying to find some comfort.

God is the Universe?
Does that mean we're the turds in his colon?