[Ammi]

Originally Posted by MTVN

The Pope is the leader of the oldest Christian Church in the world, surely he is in a better place than anyone else to say who is a Christian and who isn't. Obviously a lot of people won't agree with him but I don't see why it's that controversial for a religious leader to comment on someone's religion

..he wasn't really saying who was a Christian though, it was a general thing of defining what he thinks is Christian, so saying that a Christian, as in any Christian as he saw it wouldn't be someone who would seek to build walls but someone who would seek to build bridges...and if Trump was seeking to build walls then to him, he wouldn't be a Christian in definition...'a person who only thinks about making walls again and again and not making bridges, isn't a Christian'...and then saying that he wouldn't get mixed up in it though..(that worked out well..)...'I would only say this man is not a Christian if that was what he was' ....


...anyways, Trump is an extreme, isn't he...building walls is an extreme but there has to be a balance to building bridges as well, in that there does have to be things like immigration control, it's just that the Trump immigration control is to say no, go away to all, it seems...quite an 'un-Christian/un-charitable of spirit' thing to do.....I do personally find it quite worrying though that the head of the Catholic Church..(in 2016..)...doesn't know these basic things, like you said and is using the word 'if'...and that he has no knowledge of what Trump represents in a country which is so powerful and important in the world...there should not have been an 'if that's what Trump has said'/thing for me at all...and just represents a total detachment to any world realities....


...mind you, walls are a good idea to prevent as many people as possible having to look at Trump's hair, it seems to be getting more and more crazy as time goes along...I'm thinking he could be like Samson and if someone were to pull off his hair-piece, he'd lose his 'power'.../that's what the Pope needs to do to stop those un-Christian walls...

[lostalex]

Trump definitely made the Pope look like a fool about the Pope's comment about building walls. When he tweeted that picture of the YUGE walls around the vatican, i laughed my ass off.

The Pope is an idiot and a hypocrite, and way more of a bigot than Donald Trump.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Trump definitely made the Pope look like a fool about the Pope's comment about building walls. When he tweeted that picture of the YUGE walls around the vatican, i laughed my ass off.

The Pope is an idiot and a hypocrite, and way more of a bigot than Donald Trump.

You do realise the walls have been there forever and you can walk into Vatican City, it's not sealed off to Mexicans or other nationalities

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Cherie

You do realise the walls have been there forever and you can walk into Vatican City, it's not sealed off to Mexicans or other nationalities

hopefully someday America will have a wall just as old. but if we want it to be old, we better start as soon as possible!

Trump's wall wouldn't seal out the Mexicans either, as long as they come legally.

[angonior]

He so wrong for wanting to build a wall

[Northern Monkey]

Really.Who gives a **** what the pope thinks.Apart from catholics obviously.Nobody else cares and i can't see his comments actually influencing anything.Abit of a non-story imo.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Really.Who gives a **** what the pope thinks.Apart from catholics obviously.Nobody else cares and i can't see his comments actually influencing anything.Abit of a non-story imo.

I'd be more impressed if the Pope sold off the billions of pounds worth of works of art and other treasures which they have locked away beneath the Vatican, and emptied the billion or so in their bank accounts, then combined the two collosal amounts to BUY an island for these poor immigrants and develop it for them to have a nice place to live safely.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

I'd be more impressed if the Pope sold off the billions of pounds worth of works of art and other treasures which they have locked away beneath the Vatican, and emptied the billion or so in their bank accounts, then combined the two collosal amounts to BUY an island for these poor immigrants and develop it for them to have a nice place to live safely.

Yes there will be some right museum pieces under there aswell as evidence of things they probabaly don't want us to see but such an act would be too Christian for even the pope
Honestly the papacy is less relevant than it has ever been.It used to have influence over all the kings and queens of the Christian world.Now it does'nt even have influence over its own priests.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Yes there will be some right museum pieces under there aswell as evidence of things they probabaly don't want us to see but such an act would be too Christian for even the pope
Honestly the papacy is less relevant than it has ever been.It used to have influence over all the kings and queens of the Christian world.Now it does'nt even have influence over its own priests.

Like a guidance manual on what to do if a priest discovers a group of choirboys or altar boys have formed a secret devil-worshipping circle?

Something entitled: "How To Penetrate Any Choirboy Ring?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Like a guidance manual on what to do if a priest discovers a group of choirboys or altar boys have formed a secret devil-worshipping circle?

Something entitled: "How To Penetrate Any Choirboy Ring?

Looking at the thread you just started I don't find this joke in very good taste.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Like a guidance manual on what to do if a priest discovers a group of choirboys or altar boys have formed a secret devil-worshipping circle?

Something entitled: "How To Penetrate Any Choirboy Ring?

Oh no.That's bad

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Like a guidance manual on what to do if a priest discovers a group of choirboys or altar boys have formed a secret devil-worshipping circle?

Something entitled: "How To Penetrate Any Choirboy Ring?

That's disgusting there are many good priests who do not deserve to be tarnished with the same brush. Like all men aren't automatically kiddie fiddlers

[Kizzy]

They just want to get the bible belt on board I thought, like Dave he starts warbling 'Jerusalem' to get all the middle Englanders fired up.