The current Pope was a member in of the Hitler Youth and as such would certainly participated in antisemitic actions and/or demonstrations. As he has not seen fit to recant his membership in this abhorrent organisation, and in view of the catholic church's shocking long term history of antisemitism do you believe he is morally fit to be pope or should he resign?
2006-06-17 23:42:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes dump the swine
2006-06-17 23:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by Vermin 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
This current pope is only following in the tradition of all other popes. He is anti semetic and anti-christ. Why should he recant, he is NOT sorry. The only people who say he is are people who have never met him on this site! He hates the Jews because he wants his hands on Jerusalem!
The RC church has killed more people during the inquisition that Hitler did during the holocaust.
As recently as 1792 a Protestant Pastor was condemned to death in France. Why because a protestant. By whom? By the Rc church! In Europe torture of Christians by the Rcs was still enforced by all of the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition, until the last century, the pope being FORCED to abolish it only in 1816.
The Rc church has burned Christians alive because they believed the Bible and would not accept the pope as their father.
No the pope is not moral, and never will be, can a leapord change its spots?
2006-06-18 07:25:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
By your reasoning, all Germans who lived during WWII are anti-Semites and immoral. I do not agree with your generalization.
This is what the Jewish Virtual Library says about Pope Benedict XVI's Nazi affiliation:
Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn, in Bavaria, Germany, the son of a police officer who was anti-Nazi. In 1937, Ratzinger's father retired and settled in the town of Traunstein.
When Ratzinger turned 14 in 1941, as required by law he joined the Hitler Youth. 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, Ratzinger 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 defenses until deserting in April 1944.
Ratzinger's membership in the Hitler Youth has raised eyebrows in the Jewish community, but he explained that membership was compulsory in his 1997 book Salt of the Earth:
“At first we weren't,” he says, speaking of himself and his older brother. “But when the compulsory Hitler Youth was introduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join. I was still too young, but later as a seminarian, I was registered in the Hitler Youth. As soon as I was out of the seminary, I never went back.”
With love in Christ.
2006-06-18 23:34:10 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he was but against his will and i think a man of god like the pope wont be anti Semitic at all stop sounding stupid we can all hear it
2006-06-18 06:46:55 · answer #4 · answered by Ema 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah why not, people who were involved in the hitler youth were not necessarily there due to their own choice.
any even if he did do any thing bad, isnt the church all about forgiveness?
2006-06-18 06:59:02 · answer #5 · answered by frankie194 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋