DID you heard that ISIS plan to assassinate Pope Francis?

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GoonSquad
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01 Oct 2014, 10:59 pm

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Of course ISIS wants to kill Francis - not only is he the religious leader of a rival faith, but he's a modernizing force, while those ISIS idiots want to return to the 7th century.

That's silly, he's a symbol of an ossified theology that doesn't change.


He's actually an advocate of liberation theology...

The world needs more popes/peeps like him. :P


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01 Oct 2014, 11:26 pm

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Remember, some jackass had tried to assassinate the arch conservative John Paul II years ago: just think how they'd like to knock off someone like Francis who represents a breath of fresh air?


I'm not sure what sense you're using 'arch conservative' in here, IIRC JP2 was fairly progressive as popes go. Also, I think the working theory is that his attempted murder was Soviet in origin, as he did quite a lot to embarrass them in his interactions with the Polish Solidarity movement, and the man that shot him was a known contract killer with contact with the Bulgarian government.


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02 Oct 2014, 12:26 am

Dox47 wrote:
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Remember, some jackass had tried to assassinate the arch conservative John Paul II years ago: just think how they'd like to knock off someone like Francis who represents a breath of fresh air?


I'm not sure what sense you're using 'arch conservative' in here, IIRC JP2 was fairly progressive as popes go. Also, I think the working theory is that his attempted murder was Soviet in origin, as he did quite a lot to embarrass them in his interactions with the Polish Solidarity movement, and the man that shot him was a known contract killer with contact with the Bulgarian government.


John Paul II may have started out with an air of openness, but in later years that was dispelled.
As for the Soviet plot in connection to John Paul's association with Solidarity -that is very likely.


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