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Pope speaks of 'inseparable' bond between Christians, Jews
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Published: 09.05.09, 10:40
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1. The devil is in the details.
Ken Quinn ,   Amsterdam   (05.09.09)
Let's be clear about this person. He runs a profitable business. Just take a look at his extravagance. Real Christians know that the "Upper Room" on Mt. Zion is just a made-up "holy site." It could not have been the real address of the Last Supper because Jerusalem since that night has been COMPLETELY destroyed. The Vatican has many "Holy Sites" for one reason only, they are CASH COWS, and they are milked for all of the donations that the Vatican's dupes can produce. The sole reason that this false prophet and his team of agents wants the property on Mt. Zion is as the newest model, the 2009 edition of Vatican CASH COWS. This person is a nasty piece of work and represents 2000 years of pure wickedness. Don't be fooled, this man has plans for your country.
2. Our "inseparable" bond?
jason white ,   afula,israel   (05.09.09)
We Jews try to live and the christians try to exterminate us,humiliate, forcibly convert us, destroy our places of worship, burn our Torahs and holy books,exile us,torture us and side with our enemies so we will lose our Jewish Holy land. Some bond! It must be eating his heart that we have a country,even a small country.
3. Inseparable bond between christians and jews
Royal Prince ,   Nigeria   (05.09.09)
In easten Nigeria, we are Christians by virtue of British Colonialistic conversion. We believe generally that we are Jews and are ever ready to return to israel when recoganised. We are safedependent and hardworking people. We are upto forty million (40, 000,000) in population and will one day be back, G'd willing
4. I'm sure he'll find it a transformative experience.
Ypip ,   Canada   (05.09.09)
5. ex Hitler yoof in Action.. and Hes German before anything
RJBH ,   Methil   (05.09.09)
else... If anyone thought up a good excuse to escape his past... this is it.
6. The reality of the "bond"
Arie ,   BaGolan   (05.09.09)
Appears the sun is affecting him!Forceful condemnation?He talks the talk but doesn`t "walk the walk!" He "condemns", yet embraces Shoah denial. He "condemns" but is pushing beatification for hitler`s pope and the queen of the inquisition. He claims a "bond" yet DEMANDS Israel cede sovereignty of Israeli territory (even by the arabists warped definition) to the vatican. The vatican has never shown respect for Jews promoting genocide, pogroms, Talmud burning, inquisitions, blame for the world`s ills, deicide, culminating in the vatican involvement in the Shoah and its current attempt to dismantle our Jewish State. NO ONE here really believes him. Just a waste of State funds needed to protect him from the islamonazis he is befriending!
7. Inseperable Bond? BOND?
Lawrence ,   Safed Israel   (05.09.09)
Bond? James Bond.
8. You Just Have To Love A Jewish Bigot!
David H ,   Marietta USA   (05.09.09)
The Church's history is not a pretty one, by a very long shot. But to call this man a Nazi because of his forced induction into the Hitler Youth Corp is tantamount to calling the Kapos in the camps Nazis also, Jewish Nazis if you will, because they too were forced into their position. Worse-many of them did it voluntarily and with vigor to save themselves. Sorry, bigots, but there is no difference, save the fact that Razinger deserted his ignominious duty to country, the kapos never fought back. Perhaps after 70 years, we should move on rather than put on sack cloth and ashes, wail and recriminate? The entire core of Christian philosophy is built around their concept of forgiveness. There isn't a shred of doubt in my mind that Razinger, and Wojtiwa before him, were begging for forgiveness, for crimes they themselves never committed against us, but the Church that they love and believe in did. I for one prefer to look at them as being totally sincere, and choose to move on. On Yom Kippur we say that for crimes against God, God grants atonement. For crimes against Man, God is powerless, and that it is we who must do the forgiving. I recognize full well, unlike a Baptist, that I am in no position to "forgive" the Nazi murder of a single innocent person, much less the 12,000,000 plus souls they destroyed. I don't have to have take perverse pleasure in pretending to be a victim of the crime either, which sadly and to the discredit of many has become almost a popular pastime. You can enjoy living in the ugliness of the past, your bitterness, your hatred, and Hitler will smile upon you. I for one think this particular Christian concept is the more mature, rational, and intelligent one. Let us try to make sure this doesn't happen again, rather than wail in misery about a past neither a Pope nor we can change. Benedict speaks of inseparable bonds-not of us to his Church, but of his Church to us. There is a very big difference, if you don't let your own bile get in the way of seeing it!
9. David 8#, the Pope was in an anti-aircraft unit
Judah ,   Golan Heights,ISRAEL   (05.09.09)
He was shooting at American airplanes .
10.  Inseperable Bond? Not again, pass the lubricant.
Ken ,   Burma   (05.09.09)
11. #8
Walter ,   Portland, USA   (05.09.09)
You are quite right. Some people seem truly enjoy wallowing in their own bitterness and hatred. Also, people do not seem to realize that membership in organizations, such as the Hitler Youth were mandatory. Also, the Pope was drafted into the Anti-Aircraft Corps at 16, and was mustered out shortly thereafter. This is hardly the career of an avid Nazi. Some of the remarks here are what I would expect from an Islamist website, and that is sad.
12. #9
Walter ,   Portland, USA   (05.09.09)
You have a small piece of information, so you might wish to expand upon it. You can see Razinger's extensive service here: : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI#Early_life:_1927.E2.80.931951
13. Bond? LoL
shosh ,   los angeles ca usa   (05.09.09)
Forced conversations to Catholicism,inquisitions;expelled from many Christian lands & this 'man' ex nazi deems this a bond?? Let him worship where he chooses but NEVER give him or his followers 1 inch of Israel..Our 1 & only homeland!
14. The SACRED SCRIPTURES say...
Leah ,   Jerusalem, ISRAEL   (05.09.09)
the LAND of Israel was given to the JEWISH people in an ETERNAL covenent.
15. #9 Okay Judah The Expert. How Many Shots Did He Fire?
David H ,   Marietta USA   (05.09.09)
How many hits did this 15 year old boy make? How many of my parent's generation did he maim or kill? I suspect the grand tally come to zero. The man came from a staunch anti-Nazi family, he deserted the Nazi party under penalty of death, and has never denied his history. I have an uncle who was shot up in Argonne, a friend's father (Jewish) who baled out over Germany during an air raid, and had it not been for the two atomic bombs, I probably wouldn't be writing these words. My father was a B-25 navigator stationed on Tinian Island who would have been one of the first killed during the raids into Japan. So please don't lecture me about WW-2. Surely you have better things to do with your life than whine about the fundamental decency of this man.
16. Everyone missed the pointe !!!
Sammy of Jordan ,   Amman, Jordan   (05.09.09)
Mountain Nepo is where Moses saw the so called promised land. You see, Jews are not from Palestine. They came from Egypt in their first occupation based on a story that nobody can verify. Now in the second occupation, they use the same story of the first occupation. God promised them the Land and order them to kill the native people. If you believe God promised land and and order people to kill for it, you need professional help.
17. Bond based upon myth, there was no reality just a story.
JMK ,   NYC   (05.09.09)
The New Testament is fiction, to read it is to read the Greek Hebrew Bible out of context and mistranslated, it is to read Homer, Euripides, Philo, Josephus, Baruch, Sirach, Esdras, Pythoragoreans and Stoic and Cynic philosphes, to read Matthew and Luke is to Mark hundreds of times. It is truly fiction, there is no bond with Jews, the New Testament and Christian reading of the "Old Testament" leaves no room for Jews, that is called "supersession" the concept not the album and there are 450 pericopes of anti-semitism in the NTs 250 pages, that is quite dense.
18. Our Own Bigots
leo ,   nyc   (05.09.09)
The Pope has consistently spoken to Jews with words of peace --and most of us accept this as a good and positive thing. Let us judge him by his words without rejecting him out of hand because of historical injustices--let us as Jews not engage in pointless bigotry.
19. #16 If Jews kill the people why 5 million Palestinians?
EgyptJewRefugee ,   Geneva, Switzerland   (05.09.09)
#16. If the "Jews kill the people" why are there 5 million Palestinians? Enough of your lies.
20. all said
Joy ,   Israel   (05.09.09)
Everything is already said and nothing more left here to say. Everything is just Blahhhh blahhh
21. just like many other jews i hate bondage
no bondage desired ,   to catholics thanks   (05.09.09)
G-D freed us from egyptian bondage approximately 1440 bce. my family and i have no desire to return to there or to be subject to the romans again. will the masochists/hellenists amongst us never tire of inflicting pain and grief on themselves and all the rest of us that just want to be left alone to live in peace ?
22. N. 21 We must work together
Luiz Haddad ,   Rio, Brazil   (05.10.09)
I am too sad because of your message. We believe in the same God. We must work together for a better world. We, true Christians, are your brothers. All of us have erred in the past. Mutual forgiveness is necessary. Shalom. Luiz Haddad.
23. There is no bond
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (05.10.09)
Catholicism and Judaism share nothing in common. We wish to be left alone, Mr. pope go away.
24. The Pope needs the Jews
Hawthorne ,   usa   (05.10.09)
to continue 2000 years of violence.
25. #3-Oi Vey!And we thought 5 Million Pals was pushing it !
Alan ,   SA   (05.10.09)
26. Prince Gavi of Jordan had a red and white checked
Rivkah   (05.10.09)
headcovering with a purple line near the border of it. He spoke so effectively to Excellency Pope Benedict XVI in Jordan on tv this week. But the colors of the headscarf were intriguing because the religious Babylon of Revelation in the New Covenant text of the Bible is clothed in red and purple, deals in the souls of men, and is drunk with the blood of the saints. Martin Luther broke with the Catholic church in part because he thought it was religious Babylon clothed in red and purple. But is Catholicism religious Babylon? Or is it Islam? The book, "God's War on Terror" thinks religious Babylon that will be destroyed is Islam, not Roman Catholicism. Time will unfold the events to come and show who is correct.
27. 1 Ken Quinn, Amsterdam: Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD,
Rivkah   (05.10.09)
now called 70 CE. The Last Supper occured at least forty years before that. Yes, there are plans for dividing Jerusalem that will lead to Armageddon. But the good news is that the Jewish Messiah will come and then there will be a thousand years of peace.
28. 26 correction: Prince Ghazi, not Prince Gavi gave a great
Rivkah   (05.10.09)
speech in Jordan.
29. just remember
m ,   jerusalem   (05.10.09)
i hope all israelis should just remember who gave them israel. It was the christians (British) without us and all our support of money and weapons from the states which is a CHRISTIAN country you would not have ever survived. so before you talk crap think about all the freedom that you currently have because of the christians.
30. 15# David, the Pope was 18 not 15
Judah ,   Golan Heights,ISRAEL   (05.10.09)
The war ended excatly 64 years ago. The pope was 18 and not 15 when he was in an anti-aircraft unit defending Berlin. I do not know if he shot down any allied aircraft but you also do not know if he did not. My father who is now a very spry 85 year old fought the Germans in 1945 and he tells me that the Hitler youth were the most fanatical.
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