Religions > Atheism > Deaf to God - Pope warns secular society is losing touch with reality
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Deaf to God - Pope warns secular society is losing touch with reality |
The Catholic Church, indeed the entire world, is fortunate to have such a
wise and Holy man serve as pontiff.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21204
MUNICH, Germany (Catholic Online) - Pope Benedict XVI returned home this
weekend to his native Germany, warning an increasingly secular society not
to let a misunderstanding of science and reason make it deaf to God.
The pope, in the Sept. 10 Mass, the first public eucharistic celebrations of
the Sept. 9-14 trip to his homeland, told an estimated 250,000 that Western
societies that tolerance and cultural openness to the world must include
"the fear of God."
"We are no longer able to hear God," the pope said. "There are too many
frequencies filling out ears."
Secular societies are experiencing "a 'hardness of hearing' where God is
concerned," Benedict said. "This is something we particularly suffer in our
own time."
"Along with this hardness of hearing or outright deafness where God is
concerned, we naturally lose our ability to speak with him and to him. And
so we end up losing a decisive capacity for perception. We risk losing our
inner senses," the pope said.
"This weakening of our capacity for perception drastically and dangerously
curtails the range of our relationship with reality. The horizon of our life
is disturbingly foreshortened," Benedict stressed.
With the oldest crucifix in the world, dating back to the 9th century,
present at the open-air Mass at the city's fairgrounds here, the pope told
the crowd, in which Vatican and Bavarian flags were being waved, that modern
society, for all of its advantages, does not have all of the answers facing
mankind.
"What is said about God strikes us as pre-scientific, no longer suited to
our age," the pope said.
He noted that while "people in Africa and Asia admire our scientific and
technical prowess," they are "frightened by a form of rationality which
totally excludes God from man's vision."
"They do not see the real threat to their identity in the Christian faith,"
the pontiff added, "but in the contempt for God and the cynicism that
considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom and that holds
up utility as the supreme moral criterion for the future of scientific
research."
"This cynicism," the pope pointed out, works against "the kind of tolerance
and cultural openness that the world's peoples are looking for and that all
of us want."
Tolerance of cultural differences does not mean intolerance of God, Benedict
said.
"The tolerance which we urgently need includes the fear of God - respect for
what others hold sacred. This respect for what others hold sacred demands
that we ourselves learn once more the fear of God. This sense of respect can
be reborn in the Western world only if faith in God is reborn, if God
becomes once more present to us and in us."
While praising the work of Western Catholics in supporting the
social-justice activities of the Catholic Church and noting that "social
justice and the gospel are inseparable," the pope expressed concern about
the lack of emphasis on faith itself.
"Clearly some people have the idea that social projects should be urgently
undertaken, while anything dealing with God or even the Catholic faith is of
limited and lesser importance," Pope Benedict said.
"The God of Jesus Christ must be known, believed in and loved, and that
hearts must be converted if progress is to be made on social issues and
reconciliation is to begin, and if - for example - AIDS is to be combated by
realistically facing its deeper causes and the sick are to be given the
loving care they need," the pope said.
The pontiff urged those gathered to pray to God to "be opened," just as the
deaf and mute man was opened by Jesus in the gospel read for the Mass. "Ask
the Lord," the pope said, "to heal our hardness of hearing for God's
presence, activity and word, and to give us sight and hearing."
"The world needs God. We need God, but what God," the pope asked. "We do not
fail to show respect for other religions and cultures, profound respect for
their faith, when we proclaim clearly and uncompromisingly the God who
encounters violence with his own suffering; who in the face of the power of
evil exalts his mercy, in order than evil may be limited and overcome."
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J Yöung
youngopinions@aol.com
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12 Sep 2006 12:35:34 AM |
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"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> writes:
The Catholic Church, indeed the entire world, is fortunate to have such a
wise and Holy man serve as pontiff.
Now, if he'd pull his head out and deal with the reality that five-sixths of
humanity has no need to obey the crossdresser in the Vatican...and that other
sixth disagrees with him on quite a few issues.
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Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Milwaukee 4, Houston 2 (May 9)
NEXT GAME: Saturday, October 7 vs. Grand Rapids, 7:35
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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12 Sep 2006 12:23:41 AM |
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"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:QLmdncCc3IIfspvYnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@giganews.com...
The Catholic Church, indeed the entire world, is fortunate to have such a
wise and Holy man serve as pontiff.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21204
(snip)
"We are no longer able to hear God," the pope said. "There are too many
frequencies filling out ears..."
....posted JYoung over the internet.
Fucking hypocrite.
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Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
http://www.ashenempires.com
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12 Sep 2006 11:57:22 PM |
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Denis Loubet wrote:
"We are no longer able to hear God," the pope said. "There are too many
frequencies filling out ears..."
The Easter Bunny organizes sing-alongs with leprechauns and unicorns.
God is all but drowned out.
"The voices! The voices! ......."
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Where did all these braindead morons come from!
What diseased sewer did they breed in and how did
they manage to find their way out on their own?
Cheerful Charlie
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| User: "alex_t" |
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13 Sep 2006 04:11:27 AM |
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Secular societies are experiencing "a 'hardness of hearing' ...
For the first time societies can really hear, and without and guidance
fro church.
We risk losing our inner senses.
Nope, it's just him who risks losing his job.
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| User: "JPG" |
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12 Sep 2006 02:47:04 AM |
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How anyone with half a brain could read that subject header and not
fall over laughing at the delicious irony is beyond me.
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| User: "Josef Balluch" |
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12 Sep 2006 09:58:33 AM |
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In a message sent 'round the world, J Young poured fuel on the fire with
the following:
Deaf to God - Pope warns secular society is losing touch with reality
Snorf!!
How very ironic, in light of the Vatican's recent pronouncement that
Harry Potter stories can lead to Satanism.
Regards,
Josef
For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life
by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to
multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.
-- Joseph Addison
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| User: "Brian Westley" |
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12 Sep 2006 12:20:01 PM |
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Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> writes:
In a message sent 'round the world, J Young poured fuel on the fire with
the following:
Deaf to God - Pope warns secular society is losing touch with reality
Snorf!!
How very ironic, in light of the Vatican's recent pronouncement that
Harry Potter stories can lead to Satanism.
And from an organization that still has an exorcist on staff.
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Merlyn LeRoy
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| User: "johac" |
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12 Sep 2006 12:56:59 AM |
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In article <QLmdncCc3IIfspvYnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote:
Bwhahahahaha! He means that the world is waking up and by rejecting his
mythology, really accepting reality.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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11 Sep 2006 11:24:20 PM |
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J Young wrote:
"We are no longer able to hear God," the pope said. "There are too many
frequencies filling out ears."
yeah, I don't hear any voices in my head (other than my own),
fortunately.
Jim
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| User: "LC" |
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12 Sep 2006 08:59:13 AM |
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Ku Klux Kook "J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:QLmdncCc3IIfspvYnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@giganews.com...
The Catholic Church, indeed the entire world, is fortunate to have such a
wise and Holy man serve as pontiff.
Well, it's clear you and pope Benny the Nazi have much in common:
"I'm not much for poetry but I'll give it a shot:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Watch your wallets
Here comes a Jew"
From: "J Young" <>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: A poem for Jews.
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:21:25 -0400
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LC~ "Rabbi Getiner's" meltdown, day 37, 619.
"What is not in dispute is the fact from 1945 until 1988, the total #
of deaths was always listed as 4 million ( at Auschwitz ). The Soviets
lowered that # to 1.5 million. Somehow, the jews never quite got
around to adjusting that 6 million # ."
From: (J Young)
Newsgroups: tx.politics,soc.culture.jewish,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: The Diminishing Numbers of Alleged Dead in Auschwitz
Date: 14 Aug 2004 19:55:42 -0700
Message-ID: <9c2d0f9a.0408141855.6883b285@posting.google.com>
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12 Sep 2006 11:37:46 AM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet J Young
(youngopinions@aol.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
The Catholic Church, indeed the entire world, is fortunate to have such a
wise and Holy man serve as pontiff.
He's just another loudmouth preacher to me.
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Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Plonked twice by Kadaitcha Man
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| User: "John Baker" |
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12 Sep 2006 02:09:26 AM |
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You owe me an irony meter, mother fucker.
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