Sunday, April 8, 2012

Sunday Globe Special: Skipping Easter Service

It is my belief God wants me right here.

"Pope holds Easter vigil at basilica" by Frances D’Emilio  |  Associated Press, April 08, 2012

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity’s most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil.

No, I think mankind knows the difference.  One evil is priests groping around with altar boys, something this allegedly pious pontiff helped cover up. 

For Christians, Easter commemorates Christ’s triumph over death with his resurrection after his crucifixion.

“Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies,’’ Benedict, wearing white robes in a symbol of new life, told the faithful in a packed St. Peter’s Basilica.  

I certainly agree with that. It explains the free-fall collapse of the AmeriKan newspaper industry.

Still, Benedict worried in his homily: “The darkness that poses a real threat to mankind, after all, is the fact that he can see and investigate tangible material things, but cannot see where the world is going or whence it comes, where our own life is going, what is good and what is evil.’’  

Unless they spirit the steel off to China to be melted down.

“The darkness enshrouding God and obscuring values is the real threat to our existence and to the world in general,’’ the pope said.  

It's the EUSraeli Empire and it's delusions of grandeur.

“If God and moral values, the difference between good and evil, remain in darkness, then all other ‘lights,’ that put such incredible technical feats within our reach, are not only progress but also dangers that put us and the world at risk,’’ Benedict added....  

Pope is a Luddite?  

And I'm sorry, but this is the last guy to lecture about morality.

In the Holy Land, thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain and buried.

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