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wilthrill · 04-17-2008, 11:48 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24176725/

Ok, so the question is was this the Pope or was it the Beatles at Shea stadium?

Caveat: This is Wilthrill trying to be as non-offensive as possible.

I can understand someone liking a band so much that they get all excited and start crying/screaming etc like fans did when the Beatles played Shea stadium. I, myself, have never been excited to tears over a band but I could see how others could be.

What I can't understand is a CHRISTIAN who reads the ten commandments especially the one about "thou shalt have no idols or graven images" and then turns around and shits themselves because the pope is in town. Maybe I don't understand but it sure looks like idolatry to me. I mean when you have women weeping in his presence and one even saying that solely because of his visit Washington DC "feels different today" that looks like idolatry. I'll also bet that to the mugging victim on K street DC felt eerily the same yesterday. I KNOW that for those of us taxpayers who are mugged by our Congress on a daily basis, DC felt eerily the same yesterday.

So two questions:

1.What has this guy done to deserve such worship (at least with John Paul II one could argue that he was heroic in his youth. This guy was a member of the Hitler Youth for crying out loud!)?

2. Doesn't the second commandment forbid the worship of anyone other than god (at least the Beatle's fans could argue they weren't religious)?

04-17-2008, 11:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
wilthrill Band Whore Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 818 Rep Power: 44	The Pope is here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24176725/ Ok, so the question is was this the Pope or was it the Beatles at Shea stadium? Caveat: This is Wilthrill trying to be as non-offensive as possible. I can understand someone liking a band so much that they get all excited and start crying/screaming etc like fans did when the Beatles played Shea stadium. I, myself, have never been excited to tears over a band but I could see how others could be. What I can't understand is a CHRISTIAN who reads the ten commandments especially the one about "thou shalt have no idols or graven images" and then turns around and shits themselves because the pope is in town. Maybe I don't understand but it sure looks like idolatry to me. I mean when you have women weeping in his presence and one even saying that solely because of his visit Washington DC "feels different today" that looks like idolatry. I'll also bet that to the mugging victim on K street DC felt eerily the same yesterday. I KNOW that for those of us taxpayers who are mugged by our Congress on a daily basis, DC felt eerily the same yesterday. So two questions: 1.What has this guy done to deserve such worship (at least with John Paul II one could argue that he was heroic in his youth. This guy was a member of the Hitler Youth for crying out loud!)? 2. Doesn't the second commandment forbid the worship of anyone other than god (at least the Beatle's fans could argue they weren't religious)?