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[SkiFreak]

CNN: Why is Pope Benedict XVI coming to Britain?

Hmm, good question. Maybe he wants to view the construction of the Olympic Park and is considering forming a Vatican City Olympic Committee?

This has me wondering, has the Vatican ever had an Olympic team? I know about Louis Handley at the 1904 Olympics who was born at the Vatican, but he competed for the US.

[RobH]

I think the Pope is in the UK to tell the world he is, in fact, a non-believer:

Young-Pope = Nazi
Pope says Atheists = Nazis
THEREFORE
Pope = Atheist

An interesting theological point can be drawn from this:

Pope = God's representative on earth
THEREFORE
God = Atheist

Discuss...

[adrianme17]

Ooh rob not sure I can say anything - i am an aggressive neo-atheist!!

[Mainad]

RobH, on 16 September 2010 - 03:49 PM, said:

I think the Pope is in the UK to tell the world he is, in fact, a non-believer:

Young-Pope = Nazi
Pope says Atheists = Nazis
THEREFORE
Pope = Atheist

An interesting theological point can be drawn from this:

Pope = God's representative on earth
THEREFORE
God = Atheist

Discuss...

In that case,there's an even more alarming possibility?

Young Rob = Atheist
Pope says Atheists = Nazis
THEREFORE
Rob = NAZI

Surely not!!!

[Rols O'Bertilsson]

He's gonna tell you Godless secularists just what a big mistake Henry VIII made.

[4seasonscentre]

The good thing about us atheists is that we try not to f*ck things up in this life time because we don't believe anything comes afterward.

Popes of this century could have taken a much more active role in protecting Jews from the hands of the Nazi's and in preventing the spread of Aids. But since they think they have an 'in' with St. Peter they aren't too worried about the consequences.

[Citius Altius Fortius]

I have a question - when I was in London I had the luck to visit the Evensong in St. Pauls cathedral - I was very astonished that in the Apostles' Creed it is said:

"the holy catholic church"

I can't believe that St. Pauls cathedral is a catholic church - therewith does the Apostles' Creed of the anglican church include the creed on the "catholic church"?

I think that is very very strange - in the German lutheran church this line in the creed is

"the holy christian church"

[adrianme17]

Citius Altius Fortius, on 16 September 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

I have a question - when I was in London I had the luck to visit the Evensong in St. Pauls cathedral - I was very astonished that in the Apostles' Creed it is said:

"the holy catholic church"

I can't believe that St. Pauls cathedral is a catholic church - therewith does the Apostles' Creed of the anglican church include the creed on the "catholic church"?

I think that is very very strange - in the German lutheran church this line in the creed is

"the holy christian church"

I am no expert on the Anglican church - however High Anglicanism does ape a lot of Catholicism - so maybe that explains it a little? The established Anglican church is not as protestant as Lutheranism or Methodism etc !!

[Mainad]

Citius Altius Fortius, on 16 September 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

I have a question - when I was in London I had the luck to visit the Evensong in St. Pauls cathedral - I was very astonished that in the Apostles' Creed it is said:
"the holy catholic church"
I can't believe that St. Pauls cathedral is a catholic church - therewith does the Apostles' Creed of the anglican church include the creed on the "catholic church"?
I think that is very very strange - in the German lutheran church this line in the creed is
"the holy christian church"

Many Protestant churches,including the Anglican Church,also regard themselves as 'Catholic' as they continue to see themslves as part of the 'Universal Church' and the original meaning of the word 'catholic' is 'universal' from the Greek 'katholikos'.The difference is that they are no longer in communion with the Church of Rome and so are no longer 'Roman Catholic'.However,it is only the latter that continues to use the name on an official basis so that Catholics are always assumed to be Roman Catholics.

From Wikipedia:

"The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans and some Methodists believe that their churches are catholic in the sense that they are in continuity with the original universal church founded by the Apostles. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches all believe that their church is the only original and universal church. In "Catholic Christendom" (including the Anglican Communion), bishops are considered the highest order of ministers within the Christian religion, as shepherds of unity in communion with the whole church and one another. Catholicity is considered one of Four Marks of the Church, the others being unity, sanctity, and apostolicity. According to the Nicene Creed of 381: "I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic

[Citius Altius Fortius]

interesting - I wasn't aware that there is another meaning of "catholic" than in context with the "roman catholic church"...