Would taxing the Catholic Church pay for a few more years of Iraq?

[politicaholic]

They both wear a muumuus, they
both look dead, they both can light
light bulbs with their mouths...
separated at birth? I think so.

Bishop Rule #1 - Always agree with the Pope because at least this one doesn't have that musty old man smell the last one did...*sniff*...oh wait, never mind.

Catholic officials have been debating for some time whether politicians who approve abortion legislation as well as doctors and nurses who take part in abortions would subject themselves to automatic excommunication under church law. The pope seemed to agree with Mexico City’s bishops who declared that the city’s pro-abortion lawmakers had excommunicated themselves.

...did you like that? "Excommunicated themselves"! Oh man! That kind of back handed wussified cop-out I thought was only reserved for politicians. But Pope Benedict is trying to influence politics around the world. Do you remember the last American election before he sprouted as butterfly Benedict, when he was nazi caterpillar Ratzinger, and he wrote a little blurb about how John Kerry should be excommunicated? I think it went "Kerry lied, fetuses died".


Pope Benedict at the
opening of the brand new
Vatican City International
House of Pancakes. Yummy!

There is a mass exodus of Catholics to the Evangelical Church because of their "tolerance".

Church teaching says anyone who has an abortion is automatically excommunicated. “Being a conspiring or necessary accomplice” to an abortion also means excommunication under church law.

...uhhhhh, since when was the Catholic Church pro-life? (see picture of inquisition below)


Hi, we know that you have a lot of
choices in churches, but we hope that
you'll take another look at Catholicism.
We're now 20% more kinder and gentler!

Oh! You murdered someone? Oh well, you're forgiven. Holy Bjesus, you drove your friend to an abortion clinic? Sorry, have fun with the whole eternity of pain and suffering.

“I’m Catholic and I’m going to continue being Catholic even if the church excommunicates me,” said leftist Mexico City lawmaker Leticia Quezada. “My conscience is clean.”

...you go girl!!! I love that! If your value as a woman in the Catholic Church is so low to begin with, how much lower can you get, right?


This article is inspired by: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18569939/

[Turbineguy]

1. Did not Peter the Great

melt down church bells to make cannons for one of his wars?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. I vote for taxing Focus on the Family.

:-) MKJ