Wow, the new Pope is an ex-nazi...

[devilgrrl]

well isn't that special!

[BuyingThyme]

1. No...The new Pope IS a Nazi.

[Arkana]

2. They must have used Diebold machines here too.

[Sydnie]

3. Well, he and blivet** will have LOTS in common then

What has happened to our world? When a Nazi can be Pope and a fool can be President?

</sarcasm?>

[PST]

4. that was 60 years ago

many people were forced to join the party or the hitler jugend at the time.
I don't blame him for that. I would blame him for taking the RC church even more to the right if that's what he's gonna do.

[screembloodymurder]

5. I don't care if it was a million years ago

it sends a message. And right now I'm shaking.

[PST]

6. Sen Byrd was a member of the KKK at the time

how do you feel about him now?

[democracyindanger]

7. Has Ratzinger publicly apologized for his Nazi past?

Don't change the subject.

[PST]

10. I ddon't know, but even if he hasn't..

for many - if not all - membership was mandatory. it's not as if he could help it.

[democracyindanger]

12. Most to all Nazis were forced into joining, huh?

I want some of what you're smoking.

[PST]

14. just saying there was a lot of pressure on kids to join..

those days.. of course you would'v never given in to that. neither would I O8)

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Me too! n/t

[dhinojosa]

13. but to condemn it afterwards is not mandatory

if he has then I will stop calling him Pope Panzer SS

[arwalden]

8. I Can't Wait To See The Write Up "LANDOVER BAPTIST" Will Give This...

Here's their page for PJP2...

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0405/popedeath.html

[catastrophicsuccess]

9. are you sure its

Ex? ;)

[seabeyond]

11. like everyone of my catholic friends i have been telling to

take responsibility for their religion isnt going to get this news and think about me for the last year of me saying control your religion. take it back

bow and embrace people. you get what you create. this is your religion. what you allowed to create. shame

[TahitiNut]

15. "Corporal mortification" will be a new sacrament.

Slavish obedience. Whips. Cilices. :puke:

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. This is a coincidence...Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympathizer,

his grandson is a fascist and now the Catholic Church chooses a Nazi for pope. It's all a coincidence. Really, it is! :eyes:

I knew this guy would be chosen. He's who I picked on the DU poll. Fascism is alive and well. I wonder how this bodes for the Jews of the world...like my husband and son? :(

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. To be fair - from a bio of Ratzinger that doesn't like him ...

His intellectual searching began as a seminarian in Nazi Germany where he rounded out the experience with a brief fling in the Hitler Youth, though he was never a member of the Nazi Party. He was later conscripted into the German Army from which he eventually deserted before ending the war as an American POW.

http://www.newint.org/issue327/worldbeaters.htm

And membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory:

Boys in high school were required to join the Hitler Jugend or Hitler Youth.

http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/unit2/sec2_10.html

[Macadian]

19. Not as special as your Klan membership.

Try to educate yourself before slaming a religous leader.

Ratzinger was a kid who was forced to join compulsary service in the Hitler youth program.

To paint him as a Nazi is assinine.

From TimesOnline Article:

The son of a rural Bavarian police officer, Ratzinger was six when Hitler came to power in 1933. His father, also called Joseph, was an anti-Nazi whose attempts to rein in Hitler’s Brown Shirts forced the family to move home several times.

In 1937 Ratzinger’s father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a staunchly Catholic town in Bavaria close to the Führer’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership was made compulsory in 1941.

He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary. “Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an enthusiastic one,” concluded John Allen, his biographer.

[NightOwwl]

20. I don't watch Corporate Media anymore...

So can someone tell me...is his past being reported or is it 24/7 adoration?