Easy Targets

I initally intended to write this blog only about the Pope and his recent visit to Israel, but I was reminded of another easy target. Carrie Prejean, Miss California, thinks marriage should be between one man and one woman. I happen to disagree with her, but that isn't the point. I also happen to think she's about as articulate as an autistic toddler. That isn't the point either. The point is she stammered her way through a response detailing her beliefs and was attacked for it. Then some pictures were released that were mild in comparison with what most teenage girls display on their facebook pages. Donald Trump just held a press conference saying that the photos were fine and she wasn't going to be dethroned, or whatever you do a beauty queen. Trump and Prejean both pointed out that President Obama holds the same view with regard to marriage as does Prejean. (Who would have ever thought I'd be to the left of Obama on an issue?) There's nothing the liberals can say about this now. She's right, Obama believes the same as she does. They're just fucking screwed, their savior is on the side of the hateful Christian Miss California. Haha.

On to my original point, the Pope. Apparently he went to Israel and spoke at the Holocaust Memorial there and boy are the Israeli's pissed. 'Israeli critics accused the German-born Benedict XVI of failing to express enough remorse for the Holocaust.' Parlaiment speaker Reuven Rivlin also said, 'The pope spoke like an historian, as somebody observing things from the sidelines, about things that shouldn't happen. But, what can you do? He was part of them. With all due respect to the Holy See, we cannot ignore the baggage he carries with him.' Can everyone give it up already? In Nazi Germany, being defined as a 'youth' meant you were forced to join the Hitler Youth. It's not like the Pope ran out to join, he was a 14 year old kid with no other choice. Well, I'm sure he could've refused to join and have his whole family thrown into a concentration camp. Then, at 16, he was conscripted into the army. He fell ill and wasn't able to even fight. He fucking deserted for christ's sake. For people to run around saying that the Pope was 'part of them' is more than disingenuous.

Let's play a little game of, 'Who Said It?'. I'll provide three quotations, you tell me which one was made by a person being widely and very vocally attacked by Israel, and which two were made by people about whom Israel bashfully complained.

1. 'The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotted tree which will be annihilated with one storm.'

2. 'They [Holocaust victims] lost their lives, but they will never lose their names. These are indelibly etched in the hearts of their loved ones, their surviving fellow prisoners, and all those determined never to allow such an atrocity to disgrace mankind again.'

3. 'Some minorities, descendants of the same ones who killed Christ, took all the world's wealth for themselves.'

If you guessed quote number two, you'd be correct! But since the Pope didn't say 'murder' or 'Nazi', he's just an asshole. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (quote one) and Hugo Chavez (quote three), have never been blasted this bad. Venezuelans and Iranians are still reading The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as if it were pure nonfiction. I'm not Catholic by the way, so I'm not beholden to stick up for the Pope by any means. I'll poke a little fun just to show you.

A Vatican spokesmen said, 'The Pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never.' The Pope admitted it himself in a biography, so why the Catholic church thinks that everyone on planet Earth is a fucking retard is beyond me. They're already out of touch with the normal person, blatantly lying is probably not the best thing in the world to be doing right now. It is silly for them to be taking the time to deny something that is established fact when they could open up a discussion about something which is still being debated.

In all the articles I've read on this, some form of this quote was included, 'Newspapers lambasted him for failing to apologize for what many in Israel see as Catholic indifference during World War II.' There is absolutely no consensus amongst anyone, let alone Jews, that the Catholic church was 'indifferent' during WWII. Perhaps the Church should enter into an intellectual, historical discussion about something instead of saying the Pope wasn't in the Nazi Youth even though they're are probably pictures of him wearing swastika underpants that say 'Property of the Fuhrer' on them. It chips away at whatever credibility the Catholic church has left with the global religious community, and furthers their laughing-stock status among the global secular community.

This isn't very interesting, I was just looking for an excuse to read further about the history of WWII and the Holocaust, it's fucking fascinating stuff.