Banned by the Pope

7 thoughts on “Banned by the Pope”

1. Do I sound like an idiot for admitting that when I first saw your notice I thought it might be legit? (In light of your NC-17 blog rating, of course). Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve been a little late to catch the joke. Very funny, though.

2. Hilarious. Great Link…That’s almost as good as Ergun Caner as “The Calvinator”

3. What’s really funny is that I received several phone calls today from close friends who believed it was real. There’s no way I could break it to them that it was satirical. It was just too much fun. 🙂

4. ‘The reaction was swift and strong from prominent Protestant bloggers. For example, Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, told TBNN, “This is another example of the Pope’s desire to set up the Catholic Church as the one true faith. He is further alienating himself from Protestants who would like to work with Catholics to serve our communities. He is taking us back to before Vatican II.”

   I think Mohler needs to avail himself of James White’s Ministry. Apparently he has not understood that Vatican II change nothing. Which protestants want to work with Catholics to serve our communities? Really?

   This is a preemptive strike from the Vatican. It is simply this: Tell a Catholic what they must believe and they will. If you want them to believe that they cannot discern truth from error, just tell them not to look. It proves this though, the Vatican has no desire to work with protestants to serve our communities. They only feign any cooperation to borg the opposition. The key for Catholic expansion has always been sybncretistic assimilation. They could care less to remain orthodox Catholic as long as they can effectively Catholocize others by ostensibly watering down the distinctions. The blogosphere however, is no community of cooperation, but of combat. Down and dirty street fighting takes place here. No airs, no decorum, no polite speach codes to maintain a cooperative spirit. Here there be monsters and the Pope knows it. Here he cannot hide in the mist of a social services Gospel.

   It would be helpful if the Al Mohler’s would just out and out say it, Catholocism is not Christian, and have done with it. The Pope, and all Popes have thrown down that gauntlet and have said exactly that about protestantism. We need our leaders, the voices that are heard in the public arena, the media outside the blogosphere, to say the same. Back to Wittenberg, nail the theses: Catholocism is not Christian.

   The road of reunification taken by the pseudo-conservatives in that “Idealist” tradition that flowed through people like Phillip Schaff will never take place without compromising the very “hinge” upon which all of the protestant movement swings, as Luther would say.. They are two different religions, two different faiths. Mohler shouldn’t give the Pope a platform to alienate Catholicism. He should rip the platform out from under him and make the alienation sure by making a clean break from any entertainment of ideas that we can ever cooperate with them at all.

5. Wow, recognized by Tim C. and the Pope in the same week! You must be doing something right. 😉

6. Seriously, would Al respond the way you have satirized? Satire must contain truth, right? It has been said by the Great Rushdi, that what makes satire, satire, is that it contains nuggets of truth, and that is why it is funny.

   What is so shocking is that we actually view the pope as this kind of maniacal ogre fully capable of making such outrageous pronouncements. It is easy to pull the wool over the eyes of sheep, when its real wool, eh?

   Go a head say it, I bit off a big chunk of display food here. It seemed all the more credible by faux quoting Al. Boy, do I feel, in the immortal words of the big blue jeanie, a little sheepish!

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