Maybe the Pope didn't say it as it is being reported...
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/12/16/16572196.html
When condeming "the West" for enforcing the strict separation of church and state, the Pope says: "denial of history and the rejection of religious symbols which reflect the identity and the culture of the majority of citizens". (Majority Rules!)
But..
"In the message for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, marked on Jan. 1, he also reiterated recent condemnations of lack of religious freedom in countries in the Middle East where Christians are a minority, such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia." (Hey, the minority rights matter!)
And then he adds this:
“The same determination that condemns every form of fanaticism and religious fundamentalism must also oppose every form of hostility to religion that would restrict the public role of believers in civil and political life.”
It's what the Bible says and endorses that worries me. Having people live it out in civil and political life is dangerous.
Tim Minchin said it best...
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What do you expect? You can't be considered for the position of pope until you are senile.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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