Nancy Pelosi visits the Pope

[Evanescence]

The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on stage in front of a huge crowd.

The Pope leans towards Mrs. Pelosi and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their hearts and for the rest of their lives whenever they speak of this day they will rejoice!"

Pelosi replied, "I seriously doubt that; with one little wave of your hand? Show me."

So the Pope slapped her.

[Grank]

Ha

[Evanescence]

:cool:

[Jesuslove]

The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on stage in front of a huge crowd.

The Pope leans towards Mrs. Pelosi and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their hearts and for the rest of their lives whenever they speak of this day they will rejoice!"

Pelosi replied, "I seriously doubt that; with one little wave of your hand? Show me."

So the Pope slapped her.

Great joke.. I love Papa Nazi.

[cheewiee]

Great joke.. I love Papa Nazi.

Papa Nazi?! Dude, hope you don't get banished from communion for making cracks about Benedict like that...

[Jesuslove]

Papa Nazi?! Dude, hope you don't get banished from communion for making cracks about Benedict like that...

He is who he is. He's set the church back 75 years.. coincidentally that was the time of Hitler's reign.

[cheewiee]

He is who he is. He's set the church back 75 years.. coincidentally that was the time of Hitler's reign.

So was everyone who was a teenager during Hitler's reign a nazi?

[HotWireD]

So was everyone who was a teenager during Hitler's reign a nazi?

Techically - at the age of fourteen they became members, whether they liked it or not (well they could always join a concentration/prison camp).



If he (The Pope) had just aknowledged that he had been in the Hitler Youth and that was due to societal and peer pressure (and German Law at the time) in Germany, I am sure people would not go on about his membership of the National Socialists.

It was his pussy footing around, and then (earlier this year) a press secretary stating that 'from now on he was never a member' or some words to that effect, that keep getting this brought up.

He is not who he was then, just like many German citizens who helped Germany recover after the Second World War. They had not known any better at the time, it was all they had ever known (having been educated in National Socialist schools). They were members of The Party because that was what you did, joined up at 14 or 15 years old with your mates.

I am sure a lot of them regretted their affiliation/association with the Nazis when they discovered what had been going on in Germany during. and before, the war.

Wiki...
Following his 14th birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was conscripted in the Hitler Youth, as membership was required for all 14-year old German boys after December 1939,[7] but was an unenthusiastic member and refused to attend meetings.[8] His father was a bitter enemy of Nazism, believing it conflicted with the Catholic faith, according to biographer John L. Allen, Jr. In 1941, one of Ratzinger's cousins, a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was taken away by the Nazi regime to a care center and killed there in secrecy during the Aktion T4 euthanasia campaign of Nazi eugenics.[9] In 1943 while still in seminary, he was drafted at age 16 into the German anti-aircraft corps. Ratzinger then trained in the German infantry, but a subsequent illness precluded him from the usual rigours of military duty. As the Allied front drew closer to his post in 1945, he deserted back to his family's home in Traunstein after his unit had ceased to exist, just as American troops established their headquarters in the Ratzinger household. As a German soldier, he was put in a POW camp, but was released a few months later at the end of the war in the summer of 1945. He reentered the seminary, along with his brother Georg, in November of that year.

[Jesuslove]

Techically - at the age of fourteen they became members, whether they liked it or not (well they could always join a concentration/prison camp).


If he (The Pope) had just aknowledged that he had been in the Hitler Youth and that was due to societal and peer pressure (and German Law at the time) in Germany, I am sure people would not go on about his membership of the National Socialists.
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Exactly!

[Jesuslove]

So was everyone who was a teenager during Hitler's reign a nazi?

Did I say that?