It is true:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572667,00.html
So why is this man Pope? Since he speaks for God, does that mean God is a Nazi? I mean, I've always suspected as much, but this pretty much confirms it.
The Pope and God are both Nazis. You heard it here first.
2006-07-16 05:20:27 · 27 answers · asked by kubrickian 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since the Pope's God ordered so many genocides He might as well be a Nazi. For example, the whole egyptian population was put through much suffering only for the actions of their pharaoh.
2006-07-16 05:35:15 · answer #1 · answered by avik_d2000 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The belief in God is faith.The Pope wants you to believe in God as an act of faith.Is this preying on human nature?How could you be a member of the Catholic religion knowing that the Pope is a Nazi?Does this mean that all nuns and priests are Nazis too?Maybe this is how the psyche of evil is balanced.Too much evil then it's a religion.Rob a bank ---have a Latin high mass.I don't like Nazis!
2006-07-16 12:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All non-Jewish German boys were forced to join the Hitler Youth. If you think they were all Nazis then you are very naive.
Furthermore every draftee into the Nazi German Army was not a Nazi.
Just hope and pray that you do not have to make a decision to live and fight for a government you do not believe in or be executed.
Do you believe that every German citizen was guilty of the holocaust. Even if they could do something about it, most did not even learn about the "final solution" until the war was over.
I know of some US soldiers that joined up eagerly to fight in Afghanistan after the World Trade Center attack. But now they have to fight in Iraq, a war that they do not think is just.
You and I live in a very different world that the Pope did in 1940s Germany. I suggest you do not be so quick to judge others.
With love in Christ.
2006-07-16 22:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read the article, thank you for bringing it to our attention.
What it tells me is that the Pope is human. Since I'm not Catholic, and I don't believe anyone speaks for God, that's not a huge shocker for me.
Did you see the part where he joined the Hitler Youth only once it became compulsory, and he later deserted and spent some time in jail for it? Your question paints a rather one-sided picture, when what we really have is a young man caught up in the termoil of a terrible war and idelogical crisis who clearly just didn't know what to do.
Could he have resisted? Yes! He could have even been like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pacifist Lutheran pastor who stared an anti-Nazi church in Germany and gave up some of his pacifist convictions to actually stage an assination attempt against Hitler and died for it. Most people could always do better than they have done.
So the pope's human. Not a shocker. But thanks for the article.
2006-07-16 12:37:39 · answer #4 · answered by squirellywrath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a good friend that lived in Nazi occupied Holland. He was forced to join the Hitler Youth. He did so and then went on to also join the Resistance and fought with the Americans. Since joining the Hitler Youth was mandatory and he didn't commit any war crimes, then I don't have a problem with him being the Pope. Panzer is a german armored vehicle and rotweiller is a dog. So his being German and using German word references does not make him a Nazi.
2006-07-16 12:34:02 · answer #5 · answered by CatSlater 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very childlike.
Christianity teaches that nothing is beyond redemption if one sincerely asks for forgiveness.
Furthermore, this is not the case with Joseph Ratzinger. All young men had to serve in the Hitler Youth. Ratzinger abandoned them, which would have been a severe punishment if caught. Then he became a priest.
So I would encourage you to read a bit more than a 2 minute article if it wouldn't hurt your head too much. Perhaps, one of Ratzinger's many books or even his encyclical as pope, which is entitled 'God is Love'.
If you find your logic to be confirmational then I fear whatever responsibility you hold in society.
2006-07-16 12:25:33 · answer #6 · answered by velvet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I did know that. Yes, so does the Pope. No, he didn't know the true goals of Nazism just like the rest of the world. The Pope is not a Nazi, God is not a Nazi.
Looks like I just shot you down, again. Nice try noob!
2006-07-16 12:23:39 · answer #7 · answered by The All-Knowing Sam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you didn't notice that the subject of that article, which was written in April of 2005, is Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who, at that time was only a "candidate" for Pope. The Pope, as of July 16, 2005, is Pope Benedict XVI, NOT Joseph Ratzinger!
2006-07-16 12:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by eefen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yes....everyone made a big deal out of it when he was appointed/elected. You know its not like the Nazis went around Germany telling kids, "Hey come and join the Hitler youth so you can represent Evil and kill Jews!" They used very slick propoganda and lies to get kids into the Hitler Jungen... he was only 11, should we really hold this against him? I think not.
2006-07-16 12:27:15 · answer #9 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh please. Many people were members of the Nazi party - it was a way to stay alive in Nazi Germany at the time. I am not a devout Christian, but I don't hold a person's past against them for something that happened 50+ years ago.
2006-07-16 12:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by merigold00 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋