Thread: Pope to Jews: "I's A'ight, we'r cool!"
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Unread 03-03-2011, 04:28 PM   #3
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"Holocaust survivors know only too well how the centuries-long charge of 'Christ killer' against the Jews created a poisonous climate of hate that was the foundation of anti-Semitic persecution whose ultimate expression was realized in the Holocaust," said Elan Steinberg of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.
Yeah that's how it happened....

But on topic, as the article states Catholic position hasn't blamed the jews for a long time, and I don't see this changing much. Racists are still going to be racists, if they were getting their jurisdiction from the top of catholic heirachy they wouldn't be pursuing this anti-semitism. That's if they even hear about this papal decree/simply declare the pope as corrupted by world jewry.
More importantly the religious "justification" for racism is pretty much always a veneer for other deeper causes.

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Originally Posted by shiney View Post
That's all cool and great but Pope John Paul II laid groundwork for a lot of modernization and changes to the church regarding families and discrimination/acceptance
Unless you are a woman, gay or live in Africa. I don't get the John Paul was a good guy arguments. He was vehemently against birth control, even in aids riddled africa, abortion, womens liberation- or even really leaving the home- and homosexuality. Like he appointed some more liberal bishops and things but he still took a lot of extremely damaging and hateful positions. He just had good publicists really.
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