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Olde Tyme Religion
Vatican paper slams Charlie Hebdo's anti-God cover
2016-01-06
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Vatican's semi-official daily newspaper condemned French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
 for its portrayal of God as an assassin in a special edition marking the one-year anniversary of a terror attack on the publication.
"Father O'Malley, put your suicide vest on and get over there!"
A million copies of the issue are set to hit La Belle France's newsstands on Wednesday with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, the Agence La Belle France-Presse reported.

"One year on: The murderer is still out there," the cover reads.

In a commentary, the Vatican paper Osservatore Romano said: "Behind the deceptive flag of uncompromising secularism, the weekly is forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat to reject violence in the name of religion -- using God to justify hatred is a genuine blasphemy, as Pope Francis has said several times."
Posted by:Fred

#3  On the other hand, unlike with Muslims, the Vatican will not be dispatching a hit squad.

Charlie Hebdo is free to publish what they want. The Vatican is free to condemn what they want.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-01-06 13:50  

#2  When Spanish Jesuits brought to the New World a Liberation Theology that had been rejected in Europe, their Marxist-tainted movement found particularly fertile ground in two places --Paraguay and Argentina. In time, even Paraguay rejected the movement while it lived on in Argentina. In the Southern Cone few trust an Argentinian and no one trusts an Argentine prelate. However, the Vatican seemed blissfully unaware of that situation.
Posted by: Gerthudion White4991   2016-01-06 08:01  

#1  Pope Gramsci I is wrong about this.

Vast numbers of Muslim clerics and religious leaders are perfectly comfortable with directing their own to commit mass amounts of violence not in a fringe fashion but as a core tactic for the spread of Islam.
Posted by: no mo uro   2016-01-06 05:04  

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