Break down these Cardinal Kasper comments
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"when you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country,"
At first I LOL'd because I am an expat and this is how we feel every time we return. But now the Vatican is spinning it as a (positive) comment on multi-culturalism, which the UK press is then spinning as an anti-immigrant thing? That seems like bullshit considering the context.... you mean to say he was talking about the cleaning crews rather than the endless temporary structures, broken transporation, and general smell of despair?
At first I LOL'd because I am an expat and this is how we feel every time we return. But now the Vatican is spinning it as a (positive) comment on multi-culturalism, which the UK press is then spinning as an anti-immigrant thing? That seems like bullshit considering the context.... you mean to say he was talking about the cleaning crews rather than the endless temporary structures, broken transporation, and general smell of despair?
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They also said his "Third World" comment referred to the UK's multicultural society.
aka, too many black people - its like africa out here! christ alive!
Was bang on the money.
See, this is what I am getting at. The UK likes to paint itself as a multi-culti tapestry of tolerance, but I only ever see posh toffs running anything, and running it into the ground. I feel like this is closer to what the Cardinal was getting at. What am I missing? (apart from decent Indian food)
As an example, the first time me and a friend tried to take the train from Schipol airport to Amsterdam, we nearly crapped our pants because this massive train crept up on us in total silence. Waiting on an empty platform, we turn around and suddenly there's this big yellow train there waiting to take us punctually to the city at a fair price. That was a culture shock.
Can we get some of that over here??
Apart from the fact that he's unlikely to be familiar enough with the UK to recognise "the endless temporary structures, broken transporation, and general smell of despair" as simply being normal, do you seriously think that, when a senior figure of a religious institution that spends so much time stumbling from one PR disaster to another makes a remark like that, he's actually being nuanced?
He's a Roman Catholic Cardinal who's probably seen more of the so-called Third World than anyone on this board. When he said that, he meant one thing.
The only way you could excuse such a remark is if he had landed at Luton, which in infrastructure terms is definitely third world. Terminal 5 on the other hand is blingtastic!
Speaking of which, look at who the Tories roll out to complain that Labour left religion to "oddities, foreigners and minorities".
That is extremely odd considering Blair was the most overtly religulous PM in memory.
Made from the hide of a tanned kid, one presumes.
quality ride. stick 18" rims on that and you could really be talking. when it stops, the wheels keep spinnin' and he keeps grinnin'
nice little elevator in there as well, 2 secret service upfront, riding with more gatts than pdiddy. that's gangsta.
They should build mini-Vaticans next to all the Homes for Abused Ex-Altar Boys.
Sorta like bridge building.
Where are these Homes?
"Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live. I also recall the regime???s attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a ???reductive vision of the person and his destiny??? "
He's not just an asshole, he's a liar. The Nazis were not atheists. Mein Kampf is replete with Christian references. Nazi soldiers wore "Got Mit Uns" belt buckles. And the Vatican was the very first nation to enter into a treaty with the Reich.