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Post by sadie1263 on Oct 18, 2011 14:34:51 GMT
Susan Sarandon, who won an Oscar for playing a nun, has called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi. In response, the Catholic League has called her dumb.
Actor Bob Balaban was interviewing Sarandon, 65, onstage Saturday at Long Island's Bay Street Theater when she mentioned she sent the pope a copy of Sister Helen Prejean's book "Dead Man Walking." "The last one (John Paul II), not this Nazi one we have now," she said. When Balaban raised an eyebrow at the remark, Sarandon merely repeated it. Some in the audience laughed.
"Perhaps only in the Hamptons could Sarandon get a laugh with such a comment," Newsday mused. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, was more scathing.
"She's a despicable person to make these kinds of despicable remarks," Donohue, told E! Online. "It is very hard to find someone dumber than her."
Donohue said Benedict, born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927 in Germany, "was forced to join" the Hitler Youth at age 14 "as every boy his age was. Unlike the others, he deserted."
Donohue has no interest in a Sarandon apology, saying "she is ignorant and full of hatred to the Catholic Church." Sarandon, eldest of nine children raised in a Roman Catholic family, won the best actress Academy Award for playing Prejean in the 1995 film adaptation of "Dead Man Walking."
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 18, 2011 18:12:39 GMT
Wasn’t it the good Catholic Church that brought about the Spanish Inquisition? And was it not such church that killed poor Giordano Bruno for expressing his beliefs and then refused to apologize for his murder for four hundred years? beinghuman.blogs.fi/2009/02/21/the-death-of-giordano-bruno-5623713/ While I do not believe the Pope to be a Nazi, I do understand Miss Sarandon's contempt of Catholicism.
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Post by sadie1263 on Oct 18, 2011 20:44:02 GMT
Hey....start trying to explain the Crusades!!!
Oh yes........there has been a long history of some seriously screwed up religious beliefs and practices!!!
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Oct 18, 2011 23:17:31 GMT
All you have to do is search Google for Cathars and you'll quickly see how screwed up the Catholic Church was several hundred years ago. They're still screwed up but at least they've advanced into the 21st Century. The Muslims, on the other hand, are still operating by fourteenth century rules.
My view is that all religions are bogus and should be discontinued immediately. However, I don't think that's very likely. So we have to put up with them. The Catholics are a nuisance but the Muslims are a threat.
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Post by pipsqueak on Oct 18, 2011 23:21:47 GMT
i like her and have always admired her radical politics and outspokenness.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Oct 18, 2011 23:29:36 GMT
I like her as an actress but despise her liberal politics.
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Post by sadie1263 on Oct 21, 2011 15:29:00 GMT
Well....what I don't understand is......Hank Williams Jr. made a comment about when John Boehner played golf with President Obama "That'd be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu"
He was making an analogy and promptly got fired from Monday Night Football and it made the news everywhere....that he had called the President Hitler......that was not at all what he said........
Yet....Susan Sarandon flat out calls the Pope a Nazi and nothing really happens.....the press doesn't go wild with the story...........
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Post by tiki on Oct 21, 2011 15:38:14 GMT
Why every body will call nazi and hitler? Its not gonna help it.
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Post by toby on Oct 21, 2011 15:39:10 GMT
sadie posted.:-Yet....Susan Sarandon flat out calls the Pope a Nazi and nothing really happens.....the press doesn't go wild with the story...........
Toby comments.:- I was not awre that Ratzinger was a deserter !
He cannot be called a Nazi if he deserted !
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Oct 21, 2011 23:19:26 GMT
@ Sadie - "Yet....Susan Sarandon flat out calls the Pope a Nazi and nothing really happens.....the press doesn't go wild with the story..........."
That's because Susan Sarandon is a well known extremist liberal like Sean Penn and Michael Moore. She has zero credibility so no one really takes her seriously.
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Post by iamjumbo on Oct 22, 2011 10:15:56 GMT
Well....what I don't understand is......Hank Williams Jr. made a comment about when John Boehner played golf with President Obama "That'd be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu" He was making an analogy and promptly got fired from Monday Night Football and it made the news everywhere....that he had called the President Hitler......that was not at all what he said........ Yet....Susan Sarandon flat out calls the Pope a Nazi and nothing really happens.....the press doesn't go wild with the story........... look what happened when the dixie chicks expressed their opinions, and they WERE right.
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Post by sadie1263 on Oct 22, 2011 14:46:03 GMT
So....you can say things like that about anyone but the President?
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Oct 24, 2011 21:31:37 GMT
@ Jumbo: ---> look what happened when the dixie chicks expressed their opinions
What happened is that the Dixie Chicks revealed themselves as true airheads and lost all credibility on political matters.
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