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In reply to the discussion: Pope Francis compares pushing gay agenda to ‘Hitler Youth’ indoctrination [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(106,216 posts)46. And the pope was talking about a book on gender theory being kept in school libraries
Can you really think that a Pope, whose organisation runs whole schools telling children to believe in its particular concept of God, is not being hypocritical when it says someone else putting a book in school libraries is like the Nazis?
Ideological colonization. Ill give just one example that I saw myself. Twenty years ago, in 1995, a minister of education asked for a large loan to build schools for the poor. They gave it to her on the condition that in the schools there would be a book for the children of a certain grade level. It was a school book, a well-thought-out book, didactically speaking, in which gender theory was taught. This woman needed the money but that was the condition. Clever woman, she said yes and made another book as well and gave both of them. And thats how it happened. This is ideological colonization. They introduce an idea to the people that has nothing to do with the people. With groups of people yes, but not with the people. And they colonize the people with an idea which changes, or means to change, a mentality or a structure. During the Synod, the African bishops complained about this. It was the same story, certain loans in exchange for certain conditions I only speak of this case that I have seen. Why do I say ideological colonization? Because they take, they actually take the need of a people to seize an opportunity to enter and grow strong through the children. But this is nothing new. The same was done by the dictatorships of the last century. They entered with their own doctrine. Think of the Balilla, think of the Hitler Youth.... They colonized the people, they wanted to do it. So much suffering peoples must not lose their freedom.
https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/january/documents/papa-francesco_20150119_srilanka-filippine-conferenza-stampa.html
https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/january/documents/papa-francesco_20150119_srilanka-filippine-conferenza-stampa.html
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Pope Francis compares pushing gay agenda to ‘Hitler Youth’ indoctrination [View all]
edhopper
Jan 2015
OP
What does he believe he is pushing? Democrats still believe it is wise for him to speak to
Jefferson23
Jan 2015
#6
Catholics are the largest religious group in Uganda, 43% of the population, another 41% or so is
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#64
He sadi this the day before Holocaust Rememberance Day?! He needs to read what I wrote:
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2015
#10
So exactly WTF is the Gay agenda? I ask my gay friends and they don't know what the agenda is
ChosenUnWisely
Jan 2015
#15
I'm pretty sure that the gay agenda is for gay people to be treated just like everyone else
FiveGoodMen
Jan 2015
#16
I'm not sure that including feminism in 'things like Nazi propaganda' is any better, though
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2015
#36
And the pope was talking about a book on gender theory being kept in school libraries
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2015
#46
" someone providing ONE option and requiring that one to teach a particular view of God"
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2015
#62
The school is not a 'product'; it is run as a charity partially funded by the Catholic church
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2015
#82
I am saying it is an alternative to an existing product people can elect to purchase
joeglow3
Jan 2015
#99
If the church contributed anything to the funding, then they were aiding it
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2015
#100
So, most Catholic sources, including the Vatican, are just as dishonest...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2015
#97
This garbage, agenda driven site has distorted these remarks to fit their agenda.
cbayer
Jan 2015
#77
And yet again Pope Wonderful's veneer of "niceness" frays, exposing more RCC malevolence.
Arugula Latte
Jan 2015
#18
the pope and catholic church = the ultimate imperial colonizers, fleecing the poor under threat of
msongs
Jan 2015
#19
I honestly couldn't give two shits whether someone makes a Nazi reference or not.
Initech
Jan 2015
#32
Doesn't it make you wonder...why isn't the alleged "liberal" media reporting it?
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2015
#52
People like narratives, what I don't understand is how ignorance is used to...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2015
#53
I wonder if authoritarian organized religions could survive if they didn't create and use
Zorra
Jan 2015
#92
This is a total distortion of what he actually said and posting this is deceptive.
cbayer
Jan 2015
#72
How can a theory about gender roles not be about homosexuality in part? Explain that.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#78
GLAAD is the largest LGBT legal advocacy group in the US. They make you sick.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#83
I gave you a link to GLAAD and you say it is not GLAAD? I also offered you Reuters and simply
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#88
Yeah, I cited it then went to find the link because YOU were demanding other sources.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#91
This was a completely separate event and I absolutely object to what he said here.
cbayer
Jan 2015
#87
You asked for other sources, I gave them to you. You made assertions and I asked you to explain
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#90