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Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby AhabsOtherLeg » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:53 am

The thread title currently appears as a headline on the BBC News feed, all about Pope Francis condemning Mafia killings at a service in memory of their victims. All well and good. But it does beg for other similar headlines.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26693318

Stop Doing Business, Pope Tells Banks.

Stop Doing Photosynthesis, Pope Tells Plants.

Stop Doing That, Pope Tells Lindsay Lohan.

Stop Doing Altar Boys, Pope Tells Priests.

Stop Doing Each Other, Pope (Ratzinger) Tells Gays, Except O'Brien.

Can you think of any other tautologous/oxymoronic things that the Pope could command a group to do in defiance of their own interests? If so, append them here.
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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby semper occultus » Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:13 am

Stop being a dick, Pope Tells Alex Salmond

…you didn't think I was going to resist that one did you...? :moresarcasm
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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:36 pm

Stop Killing People, Pope Tells Knights of Malta
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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby Lord Balto » Sun Mar 30, 2014 8:53 am

So, can they just apologize the way the Church did about the Spanish Inquisition, or do they have to do good works as well? :fawked:
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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby AhabsOtherLeg » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:55 pm

semper occultus » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:13 am wrote:Stop being a dick, Pope Tells Alex Salmond

…you didn't think I was going to resist that one did you...? :moresarcasm


Ach! See you! :mad2

That George Laird is... quite a character, btw.

For a time now I have felt a need to post an example of what Alex Salmond is like, contrasted with how he is seen by his many opponents (no offence to them, they have their reasons).

What He's Like:



How He's Seen:

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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby AhabsOtherLeg » Mon Mar 31, 2014 12:08 am

Lord Balto » Sun Mar 30, 2014 7:53 am wrote:So, can they just apologize the way the Church did about the Spanish Inquisition, or do they have to do good works as well? :fawked:


All devout Catholics are obliged to do good works, and Mafioso should be no exception.

To be fair, their heroic efforts toward improving the efficiency of municipal waste management and disposal should not be overlooked.
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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby Lord Balto » Mon Mar 31, 2014 12:20 am

AhabsOtherLeg » Mon Mar 31, 2014 12:08 am wrote:
Lord Balto » Sun Mar 30, 2014 7:53 am wrote:So, can they just apologize the way the Church did about the Spanish Inquisition, or do they have to do good works as well? :fawked:


All devout Catholics are obliged to do good works, and Mafioso should be no exception.

To be fair, their heroic efforts toward improving the efficiency of municipal waste management and disposal should not be overlooked.


Which suggests the question, can you be a devout Catholic and go around murdering people?
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Re: Stop Doing Evil, Pope Tells Mafia

Postby AhabsOtherLeg » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:31 am

Which suggests the question, can you be a devout Catholic and go around murdering people?


There was a time, not so long ago, when you couldn't be a really devout Catholic unless you went around murdering people. The Pope himself demanded it of you. Crusades are a good example, plus the regular executions of individual heretics, and the extirpation of entire heretic communities, over the centuries.

Not that you had to be a devout Catholic to go around murdering people. Everybody else did it too, all the time, and they all still do.

I wonder if the Pope's admonition actually could have a positive effect on devoutly Catholic mafia members? It's incredibly unlikely, but it would be great if it did dissuade even one eighty-yer-old Cosa Nostra from dissolving his rival's bones in hydrofluoric acid, and convince him to return them to the bereaved family instead. Even better if it also has some kind of calming effect among gang members in South America. Highly unlikely, I know, but kudos to him for trying, I suppose.

To my knowledge Ratzinger never said a single word in public about the Mafia, or anything of note about the Vatican Bank, so at least Francis is making an effort to appear conscious.
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