The star of Bethlehem was a supernova, the one that German astronomer Johanes Kepler said happened around 7 to 6 B.C. According to Popestronomer Benedict, that’s when the baby Jesus came to this mortal world.
The birth of Jesus is a historic reality.
Jesus probably wasn’t born in Bethlehem. It was perhaps in Nazareth.
There were no ox or donkey in that place. That’s just dumb, says the Pope!
The Virgin was actually a virgin. That’s not dumb, says the Pope! “Is it true what we said that Jesus Christ is the only son of God and that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary?” he asks. “The answer, without any reservations, is yes.” And that’s it. His reasoning is that, if God was able to do it because he has full power over matter. Real power, not like that Higgs Boson impostor. “If he doesn’t have full power over all energy and matter,” the Pope points out, “then he’s not God.” Of course.
Astrology is stupid, the Pope says. It’s baby who guides the star, not the star that guides the kid.
Many Catholics disagree with many of his views as well.
Germans find all Nazi comparisons extremely offensive, including the one made above. It’s like calling African-Americans niggers.
I wonder if atheists realize that the Vatican employs astrophysicists whose research includes the validation and application of the seven-filter Stromvil system for classifying stars in clusters in the Milky Way, the identification and cataloguing of spectrally peculiar stars and the measurement of meteorite physical properties such as density, porosity, magnetic and thermal characteristics.
Many Catholics disagree with many of his views as well.
Germans find all Nazi comparisons extremely offensive, including the one made above. It’s like calling African-Americans niggers.
No it isn’t, nor was it meant to be. I said the pope was a nazi not all Germans. Yes there is a growing nationalist movement in Germany but it’s still small enough to regulate and it’s mainly a knee jerk reaction to immigrants. And Benedict was a member of the Hitler jungend. I also know that he isn’t now . My comment was meant to be facetious and not an ethnic slam. I don’t know any Germans who relate in any way to the third reich, especially the kids. They’d like to forget that period in history but their teachers won’t let them. And your reference to African-Americans won’t wash. Germans don’t call themselves nazis as a cultural epithet.
Whether offensive or not, saying that Pope Benedict was a Nazi, is probably only loosely technically correct, at best. What I know for sure is that he looks like a supervillain.
