Swastika priest

[Bandito]

http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=12871

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

http://www.jszamora.org/descargas/documentos/carteles/UGT%202.jpg

Anyway,


"I am proud of my right wing beliefs. But people shouldn't care about my politics, they should care about how good a priest I am."

...

Tam regards Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as a martyr and has in the past held masses at Mussolini's grave.

Fuck 'em fascist pieces of shit.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Fascist Father Angelo Idi, 51 - who once saw off a charity box thief with a truncheon at his church in Vigevano, Italy - confessed: "I am proud of my right wing beliefs. But people shouldn't care about my politics, they should care about how good a priest I am."

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Yeah, I'm sure people will be able to look past that swastika on your arm, and just focus on the eloquence of your sermon...

[Demogorgon]

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Yeah, I'm sure people will be able to look past that swastika on your arm, and just focus on the eloquence of your sermon...
Yeah, I did quite a double take at that too :lol: I always find it funny when the most blatant attention seekers claim that they are doing nothing of the sort.

Anyway, he sounds to me like one of those lunatics who deliberately piss of the bishop enough that they get relieved of their duties so that they can launch into a huge song and dance about how they are a martyr, the last true representative of the church, and so on. If you have a dark enough sense of humour, it can be pretty funny to watch it all play out actually.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

On a broader topic, the article notes that in his area the "Northern League" is popular. I wasn't aware of it, but are fascist movements at least somewhat popular in Italy?

[manic expression]

From what I've heard, the far right-wing is pretty strong in Italy, probably even more so in the south, too.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Just goes to show that the Church isn't shying away from their past collaborations with fascism. Otherwise they'd drop this priest and another Holocaust-denying bishop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williamson_%28bishop%29) like hot potatoes.

[Bandito]

On a broader topic, the article notes that in his area the "Northern League" is popular. I wasn't aware of it, but are fascist movements at least somewhat popular in Italy?

Look here:http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/314/191
Yes, they are, and they also hide behind "innocent partiotic" organizations.

[Sasha]

note, the northern leage is not a fascist party, its a xenofobic populist party running on an anti-immigrant and anti-financely supporting southern italy program.
most fascists are either in the real fascist splinter party's or in berlusconis newly formed great-rightwing party wich is a fusion of berlusconi's populist forza italia and fini's "post-fascist" national alliance.

[Nulono]

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Yeah, I'm sure people will be able to look past that swastika on your arm, and just focus on the eloquence of your sermon...
Not to mention the comma splice!

[Bud Struggle]

Just goes to show that the Church isn't shying away from their past collaborations with fascism. Otherwise they'd drop this priest and another Holocaust-denying bishop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williamson_%28bishop%29) like hot potatoes.

Of course the Chruch also took up the whole idea of Marxism in Liberation Theology and has inspired a whole movement in South America.

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[Random Precision]

Of course the Chruch also took up the whole idea of Marxism in Liberation Theology and has inspired a whole movement in South America.

Which of course was strongly condemned by the Church hierarchy repeatedly for both its doctrine and when its proponents tried to put their beliefs into practice. In fact Cardinal Ratzinger himself took the lead role in trying to root it out.


(So how's Trotsky doing.)

Tom, I'm getting really tired of you ceaselessly spamming threads about religion with shtick about how "commies are doing worse" than the Church or "commies did worse" coupled with a reference to Stalin. Consider this a verbal warning, and keep in mind that I have resigned my position here and the next moderator of religion most likely will not be as lenient as I have been.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

Tom, I'm getting really tired of you ceaselessly spamming threads about religion with shtick about how "commies are doing worse" than the Church or "commies did worse" coupled with a reference to Stalin. Consider this a verbal warning, and keep in mind that I have resigned my position here and the next moderator of religion most likely will not be as lenient as I have been.

Not to try and justify spamming, but as long as Religion and Socialism are mutually exclusive then he does have a bit of a point.

If it's Fairy-Tale-Beliefs-in-Higher-Power vs The-Rightness-of-Socialism then we have to wonder why the former is much popular than the latter and why, more than 150 years after both Marx and Darwin releasing their boldest works, the prospects of Socialism are questioned more today by workers than in the 1840's.

But again, that only applies if you were to consider the two mutually exclusive, which as Tom points out, isn't really the case in a lot of places in which they go hand in hand.

[Bud Struggle]

Tom, I'm getting really tired of you ceaselessly spamming threads about religion with shtick about how "commies are doing worse" than the Church or "commies did worse" coupled with a reference to Stalin. Consider this a verbal warning, and keep in mind that I have resigned my position here and the next moderator of religion most likely will not be as lenient as I have been.

My apologies. I have removed the offending comment.